"Carl Lutz" nominated for Ebook Award

This nomination is a sign that the individual media types are increasingly merging: the eponymous cinema documentary about the Swiss Jew rescuer Lutz is also being shown at the Zurich Film Festival this week. The videobook app tells the story of Swiss Vice Consul Carl Lutz, who saved more than 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust in Budapest, with video sequences from survivors, original footage, interactive graphics and in-depth texts.

The jury of the first German eBook Award justified the selection of the video book "Carl Lutz" as one of five projects in the "Best eBook Apps" category by stating that with
the interlocking of text and content description with other elements, digital storytelling is practiced at the highest level.

Carl Lutz's act of civil courage was previously little known to the general Swiss public. The author and director Daniel von Aarburg and the Zurich production company Docmine have created a veritable universe of stories about Carl Lutz, which aims to make these heroic deeds known outside the realm of historical research. The video book "Carl Lutz - The Forgotten Hero", a co-production with SRG, was published at the same time as a TV documentary - also produced by von Aarburg and DOCMINE - was broadcast on SRF and RTS. This Sunday, October 5, the long version of the documentary will have its Swiss premiere at the Zurich Film Festival and will then go on a Swiss cinema tour accompanied by director von Aarburg and Carl Lutz's adopted daughter Agnes Hirschi.

Docmine, originally a pure documentary film production company, was reorganized at the beginning of 2013 and has consistently focused on transmedia storytelling ever since. Producer Patrick M. Müller manages the head office in Zurich, Robin Burgauer the "Content Factory" in Munich. Zurich-based Tom Talent Holding, owned by Thomas Sterchi (founder of Jobs.ch), holds a half stake in the company.