FILM
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NRW
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The Media Region
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Welcome
“And the Oscar goes to …” – no, unfortunately, we don’t
have an occasion at this juncture to celebrate an Oscar for
an actress or a director. However, we do have a parBcularly
nice anniversary: the past 25 years have seen Film- und
MediensB-ung NRW ensuring that people in front of and
behind the camera are receiving magnificent awards.
The founding fathers of the original FilmsB-ung, the Land
and WDR, set themselves an ambiBous goal in 1991: to
make North Rhine-Westphalia into one of the important
media hubs in Europe. This goal has long since been
achieved. For North Rhine-Westphalia is in great demand
as a producBon hub. Countless outstanding film and TV
producBons have been made here in the past 25 years,
including, most recently, “Rush”, “The People vs. Fritz
Bauer” or “Domian – Interview mit dem Tod”. And is there
a cinema-goer who doesn’t have Wuppertal’s monorail
from Wim Wenders’ “Pina“ or the enchanted forest from
the Rhine-Sieg region in Lars von Trier’s “AnBchrist” in
their mind’s eye ?
We have all the prerequisites the film and TV industry needs
to realise their projects successfully: highly qualified pro-
fessionals in 4,000 companies of the film and TV sector
and an excellent infrastructure, first-class studios and
interesBng locaBons make the region into a magnet for
the naBonal and internaBonal film industry. In the field
of television, North Rhine-Westphalia is the No. 1 producBon hub with a third of all the TV minutes produced
in Germany. As the naBon’s largest regional film fund, the
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW has made a substanBal
contribuBon to this success story.
The dramaBc developments in the media sector led the
FilmsB-ung – with its HQ in Düsseldorf’s harbour – to setBng sail under the new flag of “Film- und MediensB-ung”
in 2011. Since then, it has not only funded screenplays,
story development, producBon and cinemas, but also supports innovaBve TV and online formats, the game industry
and the start-up scene. North Rhine-Westphalia and its
Film- und MediensB-ung: 25 years ago started just like in
“Casablanca” with the beginning of a beauBful friendship.
I extend my warmest congratulaBons
and wish conBnued success
for the future.
Hannelore Kra), Prime Minister
of North Rhine-Westphalia
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Editorial
North Rhine-Westphalia – inaugurated 70 years ago,
34,000 square kilometres, 18 million inhabitants, located
in the western half of Germany and at the heart of Europe,
dominated by the Rhine, its ciBes steeped in history and
by the industrial landscapes of the 20th century.
North Rhine-Westphalia – today a media hub with more
than 412,000 employees, over 24,000 companies generating annual turnover of almost 122 billion Euros. InternaBonal media concerns, broadcasters and publishing houses,
producers and service-providers, world-class media fairs
and a lively scene of creaBves and start-ups, they all are
proof of an impressive success story and an effecBve
structural change.
Established in 1991, the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
can also claim to have contributed to this success. With
2.000 films for cinema and television and an overall
640 million Euros in funding, it has made a significant
contribuBon to the development of film culture and
the film industry in its 25 years’ existence. More than
35 films – each aCracBng millions of cinema-goers – and
countless naBonal and internaBonal prizes document
this impressively.
As an integrated funding insBtuBon, the Film- und MediensB-ung has served since 2011 as a central port of call
for all media in NRW. In cooperaBon with the Land, new
funding instruments were developed for innovaBve and
interacBve content, and new networking opportuniBes
and communicaBon platorms created, thus aCracBng new
aCenBon for a creaBve and cosmopolitan locaBon. With
respect to the digital shi-, NRW has yet again taken the
right steps.
And diversity is again what has put NRW in a good starBng
posiBon in the age of digital transformaBon: no other federal
state brings more companies and employees together
across the whole gamut of media formats – whether it’s
cinema, TV, Internet, games and print or mobile phones
and IT. As a “convergence hub” par excellence, NRW is
the central locaBon for the “structural change 4.0.” and
the new value chain.
Now in its fi-h ediBon, the “Media Region North RhineWestphalia” brochure provides an overall picture of the
diverse media and communicaBons landscape in North
Rhine-Westphalia, casts a spotlight on decision-makers
and players, and offers compact informaBon about the
film and media hub.
Highly recommended reading on all counts – whether
it’s for a review of what has already been achieved, or
rather for a view of the media region and its possibiliBes
in the future.
Enjoy!
Petra Müller, CEO
Film- und Mediens<)ung NRW
Welcome|Editorial > 5
Cologne Cathedral
Media Harbour Düsseldorf, Gehry Buildings
Media Region NRW
Television
WDR
RTL
VOX
Super RTL
n-tv
Phoenix
QVC
Landesstudios
SAT.1 Landesstudio
ZDF Landesstudio
Radio
WDR
Deutschlandfunk
Deutsche Welle
radio NRW
Producers Film/Televison
acBon concept
Ansager & Schnipselmann
AZ Media
Brainpool TV
Broadview
Endemol
elsani film
Eyeworks Germany
filmpool
gff Geißendörfer
HeimaAilm
I&U
ITV Studios Germany
LiCle Shark Entertainment
Lichtblick Film
Made In Germany
MMC Movies
Network Movie
Pandora FilmprodukBon
Redseven Entertainment
Raab TV-ProdukBon
Seapoint ProducBons
Senator Film Köln
Sony Pictures FFP
Tresor TV
UFA Show & Factual
Westside FilmprodukBon
Wüste Film West
Zeitsprung Pictures
Zentropa InternaBonal Köln
Zieglerfilm Köln
Studios
blueBox Studios
Cubic Studios
infostudios
MMC Studios
Moviepark Studios
nobeo
WDR-Studios Köln-Bocklemünd
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Welcome to North Rhine-Westphalia, the federal state of
media, communicaBons and the creaBve industries. With
around 18 million inhabitants, NRW is not only the most
populous of the German federal states, but it is also one
of the most economically powerful metropolitan regions
in Europe. The media and communicaBons industry plays
a crucial role in this. With over 24,000 companies in the
media and communicaBons sector, more than 412,000
employees, and a turnover of almost 122 billion Euros,
the federal state has developed into the leading media
and creaBve hub in Germany and Europe. Above all, the
diversity and concentraBon of the media industries in
NRW consBtute the hub’s strength: no other federal state
brings more companies and employees together across
the whole gamut of media formats – whether it’s cinema,
TV, Internet, games and print, or cable networks, mobile
phones and IT. This makes NRW into a central arena for
the present structural change and the new value chain in
the age of convergence and digital transformaBon. Not
least of all, there is a varied cultural offer creaBng quality
of life and producBve synergies between media, art and
culture which guarantee its creaBvity and innovaBve vitality on a long-term basis.
Interna4onally opera4ng media companies
Two global players lead the ranks of the most influenBal
media companies in North Rhine-Westphalia. Bertelsmann,
the largest media concern in Europe and the number nine
in the world, has its headquarters in Gütersloh in East
Westphalia, with more than 112,000 employees in around
50 countries and turnover of 16.7 billion Euros. The group
Bertelsmann is operaBng in around 50 countries
– and based in North Rhine-Westphalia. The
media business is experiencing rapid transformaBon. DigitalisaBon and creaBvity find the
perfect environment in North Rhine-Westphalia to parBcipate in these changes.
Thomas Rabe, Chairman and
Chief Execu<ve Officer Bertelsmann
of companies includes the television group RTL Group,
the Penguin Random House publishing group, the Gruner +
Jahr magazine publisher, and the service-providers Arvato
and Be Printers. Deutsche Telekom is based in Bonn, located
some 200 kilometres to the south-west. With 151 million
mobile phone customers, over 30 million landline and
more than 17 million broadband connecBons, it is one of
the world’s market leaders and ranks as No. 6 among the
biggest industrial companies globally. The company offers
products and services for landline telephones, mobile
communicaBons, Internet and moving images via IPTV,
generaBng a turnover of 63 billion Euros in around 50
countries and employing a workforce of 228,000 worldwide. The Essen-based Funke Media Group also plays in
the internaBonal media league. Funke posts an annual
turnover of around 1 billion Euros with its focus on regional
media as well as women’s and TV lisBngs magazines and
their intelligent interlinking with digital offers. In Germany,
shareholdings in local radio staBons in NRW and prinBng
presses are part of Funke’s porAolio in Germany alongside
the leading regional newspaper WAZ.
Sustainable publishers: tradi4on and
innova4on
Apart from Bertelsmann and the Funke Media Group,
the DuMont Schauberg Media Group, the HandelsblaC
Publishing Group from Düsseldorf and the Ippen Group
in Hamm are the most important publishing houses in the
whole of Germany as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia
itself. As a result of digital transformaBon, the classic
publishers have since evolved into content enterprises
Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society
with infrastructure. We are also a reliable companion in the digital world. Both privately and
professionally. AnyBme and anywhere. Simplifying and enriching people’s lives – that is our
mission. NRW is the home from where we take
on this responsibility – also in partnership with
the media.
Timotheus Hö=ges, CEO
Deutsche Telekom
Facts and Figures
Dortmunder U, centre for art and crea<vity
with broad-based porAolio of products. Diverse and highquality local journalism has been supported in NRW since
2014 by the independent FoundaBon for Diversity and
ParBcipaBon which is located at the Landesanstalt für
Medien NRW. The book publishers are also fit for the future.
Around 480 publishers from NRW generated a turnover of
over 3.9 billion Euros, headed up by the German market
leader in the field of hardcover ficBon, Bastei Lübbe, and
the renowned publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne.
No. 1 TV hub
WDR, RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, Phoenix and several others:
North Rhine-Westphalia has the undisputed number one
TV hub in Germany for over 15 years. Not only are the
major broadcasters based here as this is also home to the
most important producers and a highly specialised services
sector. More than a third (and rising) of the TV programming produced in Germany comes from NRW. Above all,
entertainment formats from NRW dominate the raBngs
figures: major players like UFA Show & Factual, ITV Studios
Germany, Brainpool, Endemol Shine Deutschland, Seapoint ProducBons and Warner Bros. Germany produce
such successful formats as Idol, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me
Out of Here!, Let’s Dance, Come Dine with Me, or Who
Wants to be a Millionaire? NRW is also one of the most
important producBon and shooBng hubs for TV drama:
TV events like Genera<on War (InternaBonal Emmy Award
2014), The Adlon, and Starfighter, TV films like Mord in
Eberswalde and Der Mann mit dem Fago=, series such as
Stromberg, Alarm for Cobra 11 and Club der roten Bänder,
daily soaps such as Verbotene Liebe and Alles was zählt,
NRW is one of Germany’s most important media
locaBons. Cologne is especially important, above
all in the field of major entertainment shows and
long-running series. We see the funcBoning network of creaBve minds, producers and service
providers as well as the RTL Deutschland media
group’s geographical proximity to a large number of producBon companies as being a key
factor of our success.
Anke Schäferkordt, Managing Director
RTL Group
> Germany’s leading media and communicaBons hub
> over 24,000 companies, more than 412,000 employees,
almost 122 billion Euros turnover
> InternaBonally operaBng media and telecommunicaBons companies
> Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone
> Strong newspaper and book publishing sector
> Cologne: German TV capital No. 1
> Leading TV broadcasters WDR, RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, Phoenix
> One-third of domesBc television programming produced here
> Germany’s leading TV producers
> Highly professional service-providers and studios
> Lively and creaBve film scene
> Financially strongest regional film funder in Germany
> Booming games cluster, strong web scene
> Düsseldorf – adverBsing locaBon with the highest turnover
and mobile capital
> Excellent universiBes and colleges
> Diverse art and cultural scene
sitcoms and comedy like Pastewka, Knallerfrauen and die
heute-show as well as the highly popular NRW Scene of
the Crime series from Münster, Cologne and Dortmund.
The professional and producBve environment of North
Rhine-Westphalia generates an outstanding output: more
than a third of the TV programming produced in Germany
comes from NRW. The new TV generaBon has also come
to appreciate this concentraBon of creaBvity: NRW has
since developed into Germany’s leading hub for the producBon and markeBng of web videos.
German films and interna4onal star cinema
Cinema from NRW – the past 25 years have seen the building up of a sector that has brought widespread acclaim to
the players. The film region of NRW is now characterised
by award-winning producBons and box-office smashes as
well as arthouse highlights like Mostly Martha by Sandra
NeCelbeck, Sönke Wortmann’s The Miracle of Bern, Wim
Wenders’ Oscar-nominated Pina, Margarethe von TroCa’s
Hannah Arendt, Stromberg – The Movie, Ms Mueller Must
Go, or The People vs. Fritz Bauer. On top of this, numerous
internaBonal producBons have benefiCed from the
first-class infrastructure, ideal producBon condiBons and
the wide variety of unusual shooBng locaBons in NRW.
Amélie From Montmartre (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), The Reader
(Stephen Daldry), The Physician (Philipp Stölzl) and
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Nymphomaniac were
made with creaBve and financial input from North
Rhine-Westphalia. >
The media region NRW – this is WDR´s home.
And we are NRW´s and the media landscape’s
home. That´s how it is and how it should
remain. We want to be and conBnously will
be a good partner for all the creaBve players –
with the courage for innovaBon, the aim for
quality and the wish to improve the cultural
landscape – to the benefit of all parBes.
Tom Buhrow, Director-General
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Zollverein Coal Mine
Industrial Complex
PostproducBons
ACT VideoprodukBon
ARRI Film & TV Services
Chaussee SoundVision
cine plus Köln
Industriesauger-TV
LAVALabs Moving Images
PICTORION das werk
RuhrSoundStudios
digital postproducBon
ScanlineVFX
Torus
DistribuBon
AutenBc DistribuBon
The Match Factory
media luna new films
New Docs
Games
astragon So-ware
Blue Byte
Electronic Arts
Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13
RTL interacBve
Turtle Entertainment
UbisoMobile
Coupies
E-Plus
Ericsson
Glanzkinder
KIT digital
netSTART Venture
Nokia
Seven Principles
RTL interacBve
Sevenval
T-Mobile
Vodafone
WDR mediagroup
Internet
AdAudience
arvato
Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler
buch.de/bol.de
Clipfish.de
denkwerk
favsol
kalaydo.de
Pixelpark
RTL interacBve
T-Systems MulBmedia SoluBons
UFA LAB NRW
WDR mediagroup digital
Media Region NRW > 7
RTL Group, Cologne
Funke media group, Essen
Media Region NRW
Publishers
Bertelsmann
HandelsblaC
Ippen Gruppe
M. DuMont Schauberg
Rheinische Post Verlagsges.
Funke Mediengruppe
Book publishers
Bastei Lübbe
Emons Verlag
Random House
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Taschen Verlag
AdverBsing/PR agencies
BBDO
DDB Tribal
Grey
Grayling
Hering Schuppener
Jeschenko
Ketchum Pleon
McCann Erickson
MEC
MediaCom
Media Concept
muehlhausmoers
Ogilvy
Oliver SchroC KommunikaBon
OMD
OpBmedia
Publicis
Saatchi & Saatchi
Scholz & Friends
Ströer
TBWA
Vok Dams
Weber Shandwick
Zenithmedia
TelecommunicaBons
Deutsche Telekom
Vodafone
E-Plus
Huawei
QSC
Ericsson
Nokia
LG Electronics
Samsung
Cable & Satellite
Unitymedia
NetCologne
Tele Columbus
Eutelsat
ASTRO Strobel
KommunikaBonssysteme
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Germany’s largest radio market
NRW’s radio staBons are also at the forefront: there isn’t
a comparably dense network of public and private radio
staBons, and there is nowhere else in Germany where
more listeners tune into their radios – via FM or Internet
stream, regionally or locally. Three major public staBons –
WDR, Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandradio – have been
broadcasBng from NRW for more than 50 years and have
le- their mark on the naBonal radio landscape. Four of
the ten most heard radio programmes in Germany are
produced in NRW. radio NRW and NRW’s local radio
staBons are the naBonal No. 1 in FM radio with a daily
reach of around 5.2 million listeners weekdays.
Next Genera4on: games, mobile,
internet & start-up scene
Major internaBonal publishers like Electronic Arts and
Ubiso- as well as a strong developer scene provide the
backbone for the game hub in NRW. The picture is completed by the gamescom as the world’s largest gathering
for the video games industry and by a wide range of training opportuniBes for the next generaBon of game developers in the Rhine and Ruhr. As a leading hub for mobile
business, NRW also offers an ideal enviroment for the next
generaBon of mobile phones. Apart from three of the
four largest German mobile phone operators, T-Mobile,
Vodafone and E-Plus, the region has an efficient infrastructure of service-providers, developers and research
insBtuBons. In total, 40% of all companies involved in the
mobile sector in Germany are based in NRW. Moreover,
As a media locaBon, NRW means diversity, innovaBon, creaBvity and convergence. Our federal state
is one of the most rapidly developing media and
creaBve regions in Europe. The regional government is acBvely involved in the promoBon of new
ideas and developments through the leading
market compeBBon CreateMedia. NRW as part of
the new ERDF “Investment for Growth and Jobs
Programme 2014/2020”.
Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense, Minister
for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media,
Head of State Chancellery
Bertelsmann, Gütersloh
the region offers an outstanding environment for Internet
companies with its strong mix of industry, retail trade and
services. Players such as Kalaydo, Cleverbridge and REWE
Digital are also highly appreciaBve of these first-class
structures. A creaBve and confident start-up scene with one
of the highest enterprise birth rates in Germany, leading
Internet agencies and important associaBons for the digital
economy are addiBonal posiBve factors for the region.
Strong music industry: the sound of NRW
Diversity and size of turnover make NRW one of Germany’s
most important music hubs. A strong label scene has just
as much a presence here as leading providers of musical
equipment and consumer electronics, large format live
entertainment as well as innovaBve digital distribuBon.
NRW is home to around 20% of all of the industry’s companies, together posBng almost a third of the naBon’s
music-related turnover with around 2 billion Euros. A
creaBve scene in the Rhein-Ruhr region serves as the
basis along with four state music academies and, not
least, an influenBal pop history with arBsts like Kra-werk
and Stockhausen.
Adver4sing
The top address for the adverBsing and communicaBon
business is Düsseldorf, Germany’s adverBsing hub with
the largest turnover. The federal state capital provides
the ideal creaBve infrastructure for successful communicaBon with its unique combinaBon of business, fashion
and art. It is home to major adverBsing agencies like BBDO
The leading market for media and the creaBve
industries is of major importance for the economic development in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The sector’s creaBve minds have made a decisive
impact on the economy and society with new
business models, services and products.
Garrelt Duin, Minister
for Economics, Energy, Industry and Commerce
of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia
Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
and Grey as well as five of the ten largest German media
agencies, including the industry’s No. 1 MediaComand
and OMD. Other leading players in NRW’s communicaBons
industry include the event agency Vok Dams in Wuppertal
and the PR agency Ketchum Pleon, which are both among
the largest players in their segment in Germany.
Cables, connec4ons, networks:
digital future for NRW
Three of four German mobile phone operators - Vodafone,
T-Mobile and E-Plus – have their headquarters on the
banks of the Rhine. NRW is also home to NetCologne, the
most successful German city carrier, alongside Unitymedia,
the cable network operator with the largest turnover. And
the federal state also offers an outstanding environment
for the development of new digital services with leading
content and infrastructure providers based in the region.
With this in mind, the internaBonal industry comes together
each year in Cologne for ANGA COM, Europe’s largest
broadband and satellite event.
NRW industry events: interna4onal trade
fairs and German media awards
Leading internaBonal events for the industry and the general public make NRW a locaBon for new market trends and
topical debates throughout the year. The Media Forum NRW
in Cologne is a permanent fixture in the calendar for all
those in the media industry. It has been held in cooperaBon with ANGA COM, Europe’s leading professional event
for cable, broadband and satellite, since 2014. The games-
I put my faith in the media locaBon NRW
because it is so diverse, so exciBng, so creaBve
and so challenging. It never gets boring here
because things are moving all the Bme.
Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier, Director
State Media Authority of NRW
West German Broadcas<ng, Cologne
com is the world’s largest trade fair for interacBve entertainment. It is held annually at the koelnmesse trade fair
grounds, the same venue for dmexco, one of the leading
trade fairs for digital markeBng, and the biennial photokina, the world’s leading fair for cinematography and
imaging. North Rhine-Westphalia has a parBcularly diverse
fesBval scene. Around 30 events of regional or internaBonal
significance are organized during the year between Bonn
and Bielefeld for cineastes and film professionals. lit.Cologne
has established itself as Europe’s largest reading fesBval
since being launched in 2001. The whole internaBonal
scene meets up each year for Cologne’s InternaBonal
Comedy FesBval, with 2015 being the 25th ediBon. And,
of course, NRW as Germany’s No. 1 TV hub also serves
as the venue for the most important German television
awards. Following its relaunch, the German Television
Award will be celebrated from 2016 onwards as the TV
industry’s New Year gathering. The Grimme Prizes, the
important seal of approval for German TV culture, are
awarded each year in Marl to the year’s arBsBcally and
journalisBcally most outstanding TV works. The presentaBon of the German Comedy Award is held during the
InternaBonal Cologne Comedy FesBval in the autumn
and annually reaffirms Cologne’s status as the German
comedy capital. And the venerated German Camera
Award is also at home in NRW along with the popular
German Web Video Award and the renowned German
Developers Award for the game industry. <
We have been based in NRW since 1956. With
good reason: Düsseldorf is one of the leading
German centres of adverBsing with a strong
business environment. And there are numerous
TV and media companies in neighbouring Cologne. The region stands for communicaBon and,
at the same Bme, for a lively art and cultural
scene. All of this aCracts creaBve talents. This is
an environment where we can work successfully.
Frank Lotze, CEO
BBDO Germany
Events
1LIVE Krone
Advance
c/o pop FesBval
Cologne Conference
Deutscher Comedypreis
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
Deutscher Kamerapreis
Deutscher Webvideopreis
Duisburger Filmwoche
DW-Global Media Forum
Eurovision Song Contest 2011
GDC Europe
Grimme Online Award
Grimme Preis
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
Int. Köln Comedy FesBval
Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Int. FrauenfilmfesBval
Dortmund|Köln
InteracBve Cologne
Karlsmedaille für Europ. Medien
Kinofest Lünen
Kinoprogrammpreis
lit.Cologne
Living Games FesBval
Medienforum NRW
Radio AdverBsing Summit
red dot award
Rheinkultur
Ruhrtriennale
Summer Jam
Fairs
ANGA COM
Art Cologne
digi:media
drupa
dmexco
gamescom
photokina
Funding & Financing
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
Mediencluster NRW
NRW.BANK
NRW.Invest
Contacts
www.creaBve.nrw.de
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.ikt.nrw.de
www.medien.nrw.de
www.nrwbank.de
www.nrwinvest.com
www.mediengruenderzentrum.de
Media Region NRW > 9
Film
Le fabuleux desBn d’ Amélie Poulain
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Prod cos: Victoires
ProducBons/Tapioca Films/
France 3 (F), MMC Independent
With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu
Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau
Rush
Director: Ron Howard
Prod cos: acBon concept, Egoli
Tossell Film New, New RevoluBon
Films (GB), Cross Creek (US)
With Daniel Brühl, Chris
Hemsworth, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Russell Crowe u.a.
Stromberg – The Movie
Director: Arne Feldhusen
Prod cos: Brainpool TV
With Christoph Maria Herbst,
Bjarne Mädel, Oliver K. Wnuk u.a.
Cloud Atlas
Directors: Tom Tykwer,
Andy & Lana Wachowski
Prod cos: A Company, X Filme,
Anarchos ProducBon, Degeto Film
With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry,
Jim Broadbent u.a.
Producers
2Pilots FilmprodukBon
58FILME
acBon concept
Ani Magix Media
aquafilm
Arepo Media
augenschein FilmprodukBon
Bavaria FernsehprodukBon,
Niederlassung Köln
Belle Epoque Films
Bilderstumm FimprodukBon
Blinker FilmprodukBon
Boogiefilm
Broadview TV
Busse & Halberschmidt
CAMEO Film- und
FernsehprodukBon
Cinema Ergo Sum FilmprodukBon
COINFILM
Conradfilm
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Rush
„A great Land for filmmaking“ was how the internaBonally
award-winning Israeli director Ari Folman described the
experiences of his film shoot in North Rhine-Westphalia in
2011. This is tesBfied by many of the film success stories
of the past 25 years: the vision of “NRW as a film region”
took on shape following the establishment of the Filmund MediensB-ung in 1991. InternaBonally outstanding
producBons like Amelie from Montmartre by Jean-Pierre
Jeunet (2001), The Reader directed by Stephen Daldry
(2008) and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (2014), all
made in NRW, are milestones and, at the same Bme, the
reward for all of this hard work. Nowadays, NRW offers
opBmum condiBons for every film producBon – for internaBonal films with star casts just as much as for ambiBous
arthouse films, for great narraBve cinema as well as for
documentaries and animaBon films. A highly specialised
service industry and strong creaBve networks guarantee
the right partners for the whole producBon process to
every film project in NRW. Many internaBonally renowned
directors and producers have already come to appreciate
the region’s merits, including Lars von Trier, Jim Jarmusch,
Tom Tykwer, Benoit Jacquot or the Oscar-winner Ron
Howard who successfully shot their films in NRW. And
numerous newcomers found a ferBle environment in
NRW for the realisaBon of their debuts.
Financially strongest regional film funder
The Film- und MediensB-ung is a reliable and strong
partner for the film industry for financing and strategic
cooperaBon. It supports films for cinema and television
at all stages of producBon and exploitaBon: from story
development through screenwriBng and producBon
I have made three films in NRW over the last ten
years, gathering shooBng experience in Cologne,
Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Essen and other places
in the Ruhr region, and working a lot with local
crews, and I can only say one thing: things are
never made this easy anywhere else! And it is
simply amazing what fantasBc locaBons you
can find in NRW.
Wim Wenders, director and ar<st
to distribuBon and sales; and has backed over 2.000 film
producBons with a total of around 640 million Euros during
the past 25 years. Apart from the Land of North RhineWestphalia, the shareholders of Film- und MediensB-ung
NRW include WDR, ZDF, RTL as well as the regional media
authority, Landesanstalt für Medien NRW. It has its headquarters in the Media Harbour of NRW’s regional capital
Düsseldorf. The Film- und MediensB-ung NRW is Germany’s
financially strongest regional film fund with an average
funding budget of 35 million Euros. An investment which
has paid off because a producer must spend at least 1.50
Euro on its producBon in NRW for every Euro of support
received. And this how the film culture, film industry and
the region’s whole industry can benefit.
Interna4onal co-produc4ons
One of the areas of funding is for ambiBous internaBonal
co-producBons. No less than five films supported by the
FilmsB-ung were submiCed for the Foreign Language
Oscar in 2015 – Mustang for France, Babai for Kosovo,
Iraqi Odyssey for Switzerland, A Pigeon Si>ng on a Branch
for Sweden and Modris for Latvia. Pandora Film has been
parBcularly successful in this field for several years. The
company has built up an internaBonal reputaBon during
more than 30 years in the business with such highly regarded films as Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers le) Alive, Benoit
Jaquot’s 3 Hearts and FaBh Akin’s The Cut, as well as a
constant presence at the major ’A’ fesBvals. Cologne’s
HeimaAilm has focused for more than 10 years on a mix
of internaBonal co-producBons and German in-house producBons (Hannah Arendt, Bal – Honey). In addiBon, it has
served as a co-producer with Zentropa InternaBonal on
Making films in NRW means for me now: an
evolved, comprehensive competence in all departments .... Many-faceted, contradictory and
consequently interesBng images of Germany
.... The readiness to take arBsBc risks, face
creaBve challenges .... and good blood sausage.
Tom Tykwer, director
Facts and Figures
> One of Germany’s financially strongest regional film
funders with 35 million Euros
> Around 1,000 movie shooBng days per year
> CreaBve, internaBonally acBve producers
> First-class service-providers from producBon to
post-producBon
> Highly qualified specialist personnel
> One of Europe’s largest studio complexes
> Large variety of unusual shooBng locaBons
> Award-winning and highly popular producBons
for the cinema
> Leading cinema locaBon: the largest number of
cinema screens (860) in Germany
> Film-Messe Köln, Film & Cinema Conference NRW,
German Camera Award, Cologne Film Award,
Film autumn Cologne, Cinecologne
Stromberg
internaBonal projects in NRW, including Lars von Trier’s
An<christ, Melancholia or Nymphomaniac I&II. acBon
concept/Hands on Producers in the Cologne suburb of
Hürth has made a parBcular impact through its experBse
in acBon movies and was involved in such top internaBonal producBons as Rush by the Oscar-winner Ron Howard
and Collide with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Coin Film (Iraqi Odyssey), Gringo Films (90 Minuten Krieg),
and unafilm (Heli) are other NRW producers who are
regularly involved in internaBonal co-producBons
German cinema
But, above all, the conBnuing upswing of German cinema’s
fortunes would be unthinkable without the contribuBon
made by NRW. Support from the FilmsB-ung, for example,
played a part in the making of outstanding producBons by
FaBh Akin (Solino), Dominik Graf (The Invincibles), Philip
Gröning (The Police Officer’s Wife), Christoph Hochhäusler,
Caroline Link, Oskar Roehler, Margarethe von TroCa, Tom
Tykwer, Sönke Wortmann, and many more. Important NRW
companies like LiCle Shark Entertainment (The Miracle
of Bern, Ms Mueller Must Go), Westside FilmprodukBon
(The Crocodiles), and Wüste Film West (Emma’s Bliss)
produce box-office hits. In parBcular, children’s films like
Pe=son and Findus as well as comedies such as Stromberg
– The Movie (Brainpool) and Not My Day (Westside) were
successes at the box office. Dominik Graf’s Beloved Sisters
and Lars Kraume’s award-winning The People vs. Fritz
Bauer and Wolfgang Becker’s Me And Kaminski reached
the top of the arthouse charts. >
If you ever get the chance to
shoot here, do it.
Dame Helen Mirren, actress, 2010,
during the shoo<ng of István Szabó’s
“The Door“ in the MMC studios
A great land for filmmaking.
Ari Folman, director and ar<st,
2011, during the shoo<ng of “The Congress“
I’m really happy to be here in NRW because I
think it’s important that germany invests in films
which have the huge ambiBon that we had with
the physician. It shows that germany can produce these huge movies on a big scale and they
can be very successful. I hope that it opens the
door for more producBons like the medicus because I think the crews are here and the talent
is here to make it happen.
Tom Payne, actor
We had a very successful shoot in Germany.
I very much look forward to filming in Germany
again someBme in the near future.
Ron Howard, director, producer,
author and actor, 2012,
during the shoo<ng of “Rush”
Thanks also to MMC Studios and their excellent
faciliBes here in Köln. And, most personally, I
want to thank all the amazing members of our
crew and producBon for all their hard work,
their invaluable contribuBons, and their incredible spirits. I will deeply miss working together
with all these truly wonderful collaborators.
Jim Jarmusch, director and ar<st,
2012, a)er the shoo<ng of
“Only Lovers Le) Alive“
Cloud Atlas
Producers
eastart pictures
elsani film
EM+Cox FilmprodukBon
ena Film
EngsAeld Film
enigma film
Ester.Reglin.Film
ProdukBonsgesellschaEuropean MoBon Pictures
Film- und MedienprodukBon
Eyeworks Germany
Filmfabrik
filmprodukBon loekenfranke
Filmpunkt
Florianfilm
gff Geißendörfer
Film- und FernsehprodukBon
Gi-ed Films West
gilles.mann filmprodukBon
GRINGO Films
HeimaAilm
Homo Ludens Pictures
HUPE Film- und FernsehprodukBon
Karibufilm
Lichtblick Film
LichAilm
LiCle Shark Entertainment
Made in Germany
MMC Movies
Network Movie
Neue Cameo Film
Palladio Film
Pandora FilmprodukBon
Philip Gröning FilmprodukBon
Propellerfilm Köln
Rif Film
schneider+groos filmprodukBon
Senator Film Köln
Splendid Film
SteelWorX Film ProducBon
Tag/Traum FilmprodukBon
TaAilm ProdukBonsgesellschaThevissen FilmprodukBon
Tradewind Pictures
TrickStudio LuCerbeck
unafilm
W-film
Westendfilme
Westside FilmprodukBon
Weydemann Bros.
Wüste Film West
Zeitsprung Pictures
Zentropa InternaBonal Köln
Zieglerfilm Köln
Film > 11
Nymphomaniac
Film
Nymphomaniac
Director: Lars von Trier
Prod cos: Zentropa InternaBonal
Köln, Zentropa (DK), Slot Machine
(F), Memfis Film (SE), Zentropa (SE)
With CharloCe Gainsbourg, Stellan
Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf and others
The Physician
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Prod cos: UFA Cinema
With Tom Payne, Sir Ben Kingsley,
Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier MarBnez,
Elyas M’Barek and others
Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery
Director: Arne Birkenstock
Prod cos: Fruitmarket,
Tradewind Pictures, Telepool,
Senator Film ProdukBon
Nowitzki. The Perfect Shot
Director: SebasBan Dehnhardt
Prod cos: Broadview TV
Studios
blueBox Studios
Cubic Studios
infostudios
MMC Studios
Moviepark Studios
MP Medienparks NRW
nobeo
Studio450
AnimaBon studios/
3D visualizaBon
3DHandwerk
AKIKA KommunikaBon
animagix film
AnimaBonsfabrik
Blanx Effects InteracBve
Blickfischer
blueBox
Chamaeleon Digital Vision
Daywalker Studios
DigitalArtCore
The Physician
Children’s films and family entertainment
The Film- und MediensB-ung NRW has been supporBng
the producBon of successful films for children and young
people for many years. This has led to the producBon of
such commercially successful literary adaptaBons as The
Crocodiles, Pinocchio, Ruby Red, Robbi, Tobbi und das
Fliewatüüt or PeCson & Findus as well as original stories
like Pa=y’s Catchup and Molly Monster – The Movie. In
addiBon, the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW is involved
in the Special Children’s Film iniBaBve.
Strong documentaries
Documentaries have been a important focus of filmmaking
in North Rhine-Westphalia with support coming from the
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW, and they have regularly
been rewarded with numerous prizes and fesBval invitaBons. Apart from Wim Wenders’ 3D dance film Pina, Arne
Birkenstock’s Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery and Corinna
Belz’s Gerhard Richter Pain<ng are among the films which
le- an impression and received the German Film Award.
Moreover, a special focus is placed on innovaBve projects
that are opening up new ways of addressing audiences
via cross media. New standards were set here by such
projects as the FilmsB-ung-backed 24h Jerusalem (zero
one 24) and the model project Supernerds (Gebrüder
Beetz). Prominent NRW companies like Bildersturm, Fruitmarket, Hupe, Made in Germany or Tag/Traum are part of
a prolific documentary scene in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Major TV events
North Rhine-Westphalia is also a centre for major TV
ficBon events which are developed, shot and specifically
funded here by the Film- und MediensB-ung. Highly
In the last twenty years, a highly compeBBve
film and media industry with a unique profile
has developed in NRW.
Sönke Wortmann, CEO
Li=le Shark Entertainment
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respected producBons have included the internaBonally
award-winning event mini-series Genera<on War, docudramas such as Heinrich Breloer’s Die Manns or Charlemagne, commiCed TV movies like Starfighter and the
new adaptaBon of the Karl May classic Winnetou. In 2014,
Weinberg became the first horizontally narrated series
with support from the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
and was followed in 2015 by the groundbreaking German
series producBon Babylon Berlin.
Young cinema in NRW
A new generaBon of creaBve and well-trained filmmakers
is emerging from NRW’s talent labs such as Cologne’s
internaBonal film school (ifs), the Academy for Media
Arts (KHM), and the Mediengründerzentrum NRW –
young cinema from NRW is flourishing. This is indicated
each year by numerous prizes and fesBval invitaBons.
The debut of the KHM graduate Visar Morina, Babai, won
awards at the film fesBvals in Karlovy Vary and Munich,
the feature debut Los Ángeles was produced by the Gründerzentrum bursary-holders Weydemann Bros. and won
the First Steps Award, among other things. Sutor Kolonko
also won important awards for its debut producBon of
Sofia’s Last Ambulance. And 2012 saw Elmar Ivánov’s ifs
graduaBon film The Swing Of The Coffin Maker winning
the Student Oscar.
Gerd Ruge bursary and
Wim Wenders scholarship
The NRW bursary programmes provide a special entrée
into the film industry for ambiBous filmmakers. The Filmund MediensB-ung NRW provides support that is unique
throughout Germany with its Gerd Ruge Bursary, enabling
NRW is more varied than any other region in
Germany. As a consequence, I am constantly
coming across extraordinary shooBng locaBons.
I think, though, that the special thing about
shooBng in NRW is also the people who live
here. I have never heard of a complete film
crew being provided with barbeque sausages
by a local resident at half past one in the middle
of the night. But I’ve experienced this in NRW.
Wolfgang Groos, director
Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery
young documentary filmmakers to realise their projects
such as Mark Lombardi – Death-Defying Acts of Art and
Conspiracy (Mareike Wegener) or I Want To See The
Manager (Hannes Lang). NRW made another opportunity
available from 2014 in cooperaBon with the Wim Wenders
FoundaBon in Düsseldorf. The Film- und MediensB-ung
NRW has an annual call for projects for the Wim Wenders
Scholarship to promote innovaBve film language.
Anima4on & VFX
Leading agencies like Parasol Island in Düsseldorf set standards in adverBsing, while studios such as TrickStudio
LuCerbeck, the Daywalker Studios and JEP AnimaBon are
primarily producing feature films and TV series. Animated
sequences also play a central role in the box-office success
Pe=son & Findus, which was made at Cologne’s MMC
Studios. Düsseldorf’s LAVAlabs Moving Images is not only
regularly involved in top producBons such as Starfighter
and Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas, but also works on the
development of innovaBve, digital media soluBons
through such iniBaBves as InnovaBonshub in Düsseldorf.
In 2015, the Stargate Studios, one of the leading internaBonal providers of virtual producBons and VFX, opened
a branch in Cologne.
State-of-the-art studios
Studios operaBng in NRW offer modern faciliBes and
highly specialised services for film producBons. The MMC
Studios in Cologne provide one of Europe’s largest and
state-of-the-art studio lots. The Coloneum in CologneOssendorf has a total of 19 sound stages available, some
of them up to 2,600 sq m in area and with a height of up
to 26 metres unrivalled in Europe, offering space to proMy decision about locaBon was made according
to two principles: the patrioBc local anthem sung
by the Höhner, Dat Hätz vun de Welt, jo dat es
Kölle (“Cologne is the heart of the world”, which
I am quite happy to apply to the whole of NRW),
and applying ArBcle 3 of the Cologne “consBtuBon”
to film: Et häC noch immer jot jejange “Things
have always turned out OK”. No film would ever
be made without this basic convicBon.
Be>na Brokemper, CEO, Heima;ilm
Dirk Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot
ducBons of all formats. In addiBon to its studio operaBons,
the company is also acBve as a film producer via MMC
Movies. InternaBonal premium producBons hosted by
MMC in Cologne include The Physician by Philipp Stölzl,
The Lion Woman by Vibeke Idsøe or the historical twoparter Go=hard. Other studios in NRW include Cubic
Studios in Düsseldorf, the infostudios in Monheim and
MP Medienparks NRW in Hürth. >
In recent years, NRW has become considerably
more aCracBve as a media locaBon. The FilmsB-ung NRW has played a key role in this development. We, and our producBons, are always
happy to come to North Rhine-Westphalia.
Mar<n Moszkowicz, President
Constan<n Film AG
German films would be unthinkable without
NRW. And the same goes for X Filme’s internaBonal producBons in 2015 like “A Hologram for
the King” with Tom Hanks or “Alone In Berlin”
with Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson and
Daniel Brühl.
Stefan Arndt, CEO
X Filme Crea<ve Pool
PANDORA has grown up with the media locaBon NRW and the FilmsB-ung, and we look
forward to making more great films together
as Best Agers.
Christoph Friedel, producer
Pandora Film
AnimaBon studios/
3D visualizaBon
Elevision AnimaBon Studio
Grafik-Film
JEP-AnimaBon
TrickfilmprodukBon
Parasol Island
Power-Toons
Radl AnimaBon
REBUSmedia
Stefan Eling Moving Pictures
Toonsisters
TrickStudio LuCerbeck
AssociaBons/networks
dfi DokumentarfilminiBaBve
im Filmbüro NW
Dokumentarfilm-FrauenNetzwerk Köln
film- und fernsehproduzentenverband NRW e.V.
Filmbüro NW e.V.
filmothek der jugend nrw e.V.
Netzwerk Filmkultur NRW
Netzwerk Kinderfilmfeste NRW
Verband der Fernseh-, Film-,
MulBmedia- und VideowirtschaVFFVmedia e.V.
PostproducBon
ACT VideoprodukBon
ARRI Film & TV Services
cine plus Köln
Chaussee SoundVision
CuDng Crew
Daywalker Studios
Die Colorie
Edit StaBon
EinschniC Video- und
PostprodukBon
HeadQuarter
Industriesauger TV
LAVALabs Moving Images
LogoSynchron
MMC Movies
Pictorion Das Werk
Pixellusion
digital postproducBon
Scanline VFX
Scope VFX
SchniCwerk
Splendid-Synchron
Think Global Media
Torus
WeFadetoGrey
Ymagis
Film > 13
Collide
Film
Collide
Director: Eran Creevy
Prod cos: 42 (GB),
AutomaBk Entertainment (US)
With Nicholas Hoult, Sir Anthony
Hopkins, Sir Ben Kingsley,
Felicity Jones, Joachim Król
PeCson and Findus
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Prod cos: Tradewind Pictures
With Ulrich Noethen, Marianne
Sägebrecht, Max Herbrechter u.a.
Frau Müller muss weg
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Prod cos: LiCle Shark ProdukBon
With Anke Engelke, Ken Duken,
Justus von Dohnányi u.a.
Hannah Arendt
Director: Margarethe von TroCa
Prod cos: HeimaAilm,
Minotaurus (LU), MACT Prod.(F),
WDR, BR, Degeto Film
With Barbara Sukowa,
Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer
Global distribuBon
The Match Factory
Media Luna New Films
New Docs
Pandora
DistribuBon/markeBng
3L Filmverleih
AutenBc DistribuBon
Europe’s Finest
Film Kino Text
Filmlichter
Mindjazz Pictures
Pera Film
Rapid Eye Movies
Real FicBon Filmverleih
Schwarz-Weiß Filmverleih
Splendid Film
Turbine Media Group
W-film DistribuBon
Pe=son and Findus
Postproduc4on on an interna4onal level
The infrastructure for film and TV producBon in North
Rhine-Westphalia has developed and diversified over
the years so that highly qualified and experienced service
companies can now offer the whole range of services for
the realisaBon of all kinds of media producBon. High standards are guaranteed in the area of sound postproducBon
by such service-providers as Chaussee SoundVision and
Torus. Post-producBon is offered on an internaBonal level
by such NRW companies as ACT VideoprodukBon, Headquarter, ARRI Media, CinePlus, Scanline VFX and many others.
Inspiring loca4ons
North Rhine-Westphalia offers special views thanks to its
parBcular history: from the Rhineland to Porta WesAalica,
from the Ruhr region to the Münsterland, the region of
NRW has a large variety of inspiring and striking locaBons
to be discovered, with an aCracBve industrial heritage,
mulBfaceted natural landscapes and ciBes steeped in history. For example, Dominik Graf shot Beloved Sisters in
Haus Stapel in the Münsterland. Ari Folman used the special atmosphere of the Hansa coking plant in Dortmund
for his night shoot (The Congress), Sönke Wortmann a
miners’ estate in the style of the 1950’s for The Miracle of
Bern, Wim Wenders and Tom Tykwer the unique elevated
railway in Wuppertal for Pina and The Princess and the
Warrior. The Film Commission NRW, based at the Filmund MediensB-ung NRW, provides an extensive locaBon
service. It offers more than 4,500 locaBons together with
Producing in NRW – what o-en used to be
pure risk is nowadays almost always sheer
pleasure. What has grown up here in the last
20 years, with most of it having been planted
and tended by the FilmsB-ung, is what one
calls a success story.
Regina Ziegler, CEO
Zieglerfilm
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the contact details of the responsible local authority or
locaBon scout at www.locaBonnrw.de. The 37 ciBes and
rural districts in NRW and professional locaBon scouts
work here in close cooperaBon with the Film Commission.
Lively cinema culture
NRW’s film landscape is sustained by the vibrant cinema
culture in the Rhine and Ruhr region. No other federal
state offers its populaBon more cinema screens: in 2014,
around 860 screens aCracted audiences into cinemas in
North Rhine-Westphalia. A-er the number of screens
kept decreasing for several years in Germany, there have
now been numerous new openings and reopenings in
recent years. One of the best-known and most impressive
cinemas in Germany is the Lichtburg in Essen: built in
1928 and renovated with meBculous aCenBon to detail
in 2003 thanks to film funding, the 1,250-seater is Germany’s largest movie theatre and an ideal venue for gala film
premieres. In 2012, the old Residenz cinema in Cologne
reopened a-er an extensive programme of conversion as
the Astor Filmlounge, adding a premium cinema to NRW’s
exhibiBon landscape. Cologne’s former Ufa-Filmpalast is
due to be reopened at the end of 2015. A-er major renovaBon which was oriented outwardly to the style of the
original 1930s cinema, Cologne’s previously largest cinema
will be operaBng as another premium cinema site with
state-of-the-art projecBon and sound technology. The
former Union-Lichtspiele in the Cologne suburb of Kalk is
also expected to reopen soon. But the industry is not le-
In my opinion, NRW/Cologne is the perfect
media hub because the extensive arts scene
means that there is a plurality of talents here
who are creaBng new media content for a
large and interested audience.
Andreas Klein, CEO
Splendid Film
Frau Müller muss weg
Hannah Arendt
alone on its costly, but necessary path to digiBsaBon. The
FilmsB-ung NRW has been supporBng the conversion
of equipment in NRW’s cinemas since 2010. In addiBon,
there is the annual Cinema Programming Award as well
as the funding of measures for the modernisaBon, new
construcBon and markeBng of cinemas. In 2013 alone, the
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW supported North RhineWestphalia’s cinemas with over 790,000 Euros. This was
supplemented by the funding programme for cinema
digiBsaBon, which was launched by the NRW regional
government in cooperaBon with the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW. Cinema digiBsaBon in NRW has largely
been completed since the end of 2014.
A varied fes4val scene
FesBvals are both a showcase of quality and networking
plaAorm as well as an important driving force for the film
industry’s conBnued development. NRW boasts a diverse
range of film fesBvals. The InternaBonal Short Film FesBval
Oberhausen, the world’s oldest and most tradiBonal of
fesBvals for short films, is based in NRW. The fesBval where
„Papa’s Cinema“ was declared dead in 1962 annually
welcomes industry delegates from 50 countries.Other
renowned NRW fesBvals include the Duisburger Filmwoche
for the German-language documentary, the InternaBonal
Women’s Film FesBval Dortmund|Cologne, which is dedicated to films by women, the Cologne Conference as a
fesBval on internaBonal film and television trends as well
as the Kinofest Lünen with its focus on German cinema.
The Film- und MediensBfung NRW, major
broadcasters, first-class film schools, and
regional funding unlike any other – if we
hadn’t been born here, we would have had
to move here …
Jonas Katzenstein, CEO & Producer
Augenschein filmproduk<on
The Film Autumn NRW offers more than 20 different
fesBvals in October and November alone. In addiBon,
themaBc industry events contribute to the NRW film
industry’s networking and image such as the Film-Messe
Köln and the Film and Cinema Conference NRW. Cologne
is also annually the venue for events which are unique in
Germany by concentraBng on the filmmaking cra-s of
cinematography (German Cinematography Award), ediBng
(Filmplus) and film scores (Sound-Track_Cologne). <
Detmold is where I was born, Herne where I
grew up, Cologne where I’m now living, Dortmund has the world’s best football club and
Düsseldorf the greatest film funding team led
by Petra Müller. This here is home for me, and
that’s also because of the people. There isn’t
any whining here, people just get on with
things. And that’s why really special film projects are regularly being made.
Wotan Wilke Möhring, actor
I lived in Munich for 10 years and in Berlin for
10 years, and didn’t regret a second about
moving back to NRW. Within a very short Bme,
I got to know lots of highly moBvated, professional and fun people and am already looking
forward to the next joint projects.
Peter Thorwarth,
director
For ARRI, it was an important and correct
decision to become involved in the provision
of services in Cologne. Major TV and movie projects are made in NRW, and the FilmsB-ung’s
commitment to those projects, not
only the regional ones, deserves great credit.
Film fesBvals/awards
Bielefelder Kinderfilmfest
Blicke – FilmfesBval
des Ruhrgebiets
Cinepänz
Cologne Conference
Deutscher Kamerapreis
doxs! – Dokumentarfilme
für Kinder und Jugendliche
Duisburger Filmwoche
Exposed – FesBval für erste Filme
Fantasy Filmfest
Filmplus – Forum für FilmschniC
und Montagekunst
Film- und VideoweCbewerb
Bielefeld
Filmfest Düsseldorf
FilmfesBval Münster
Filmpreis Köln
Gerd Ruge SBpendium
homochrom
Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Int. Stummfilmtage Bonn
Int. FrauenfilmfesBval
Dortmund|Köln
Kinderfilmfest Bonn
KinderFilmFest Münster
Kinderfilmtage Ruhrgebiet
KinderKinoFest Düsseldorf
Kinofest Lünen
Kinoprogrammpreis
kurzundschön
SoundTrack_Cologne
Unlimited KurzfilmfesBval
Videonale Scope
Funding
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
CreaBve Europe Desk NRW
Contacts
www.filmsB-ung.de
nrw.germanfilmfinance.com
www.locaBonnrw.de
www.creaBve-europedeutschland.eu
Josef Reidinger, CEO
ARRI Media
Film > 15
Frank Plasberg
Ma=hias Opdenhövel
Ranga Yogeshwar
Dieter Bohlen
Enissa Amani
Mar<na Hill
Christoph Maria Herbst
Steffen Henssler
Peter Kloeppel
Anke Engelke
Bülent Ceylan
Shaun das Schaaf
Be>na Bö>nger
Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen
Caroline Peters
Jan Böhmermann
Luke Mockridge
Fernsehen
Television
Broadcasters
WDR
RTL
RTL Nitro
VOX
Super RTL
n-tv
Phoenix
Landesstudios
SAT.1 Landesstudio
ZDF Landesstudio
TV Providers/
special Interest Channels
BonGusto
Dctp.tv
Kanal Avrupa
RTL Crime
RTL Passion
RTL Living
Türk Show
TV Persia1
EinsfesBval
Teleshopping
QVC
Türk Shop
MediaSpar TV
Regional windows
RTL West
SAT.1 17.30 Live aus Dortmund
Regional/
local Broadcasters
NRW.TV
Center.tv
CityVision
Studio 47
Producers
a&0 büro filmprodukBon
acBonconcept
Ansager & Schnipselmann
augenschein
AZ Media
Bantry Bay ProducBons
blue tandem filmproducBon
coconut media
Dieter Nuhr
Germany’s No. 1 television hub
North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany’s undisputed No. 1
TV hub. This is not only the headquarters for the major
channels, but is also home to the most important and
o-en internaBonally acBve producers as well as a highly
specialised services sector. More than a third of all the
TV minutes produced in Germany comes from NRW, and
there’s more to come. The new TV generaBon has also
come to appreciate this concentraBon of creaBvity: NRW
has since developed into Germany’s leading hub for the
producBon and markeBng of web videos.
WDR and Phoenix
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) has its headquarters in
the heart of Cologne’s city centre. With an annual budget
of 1.49 billion Euros, WDR is Europe’s largest public broadcaster. The staBon also has shares in numerous TV producBon and markeBng companies such as Bavaria Film
through its commercial subsidiary WDR mediagroup. WDR
is also responsible for operaBng the Phoenix event and
documentary channel which has been on air for the past
18 years and since become a market leader in its area of
programming. First and foremost, the WDR is of central
importance for producers as a commissioner and co-producer: in 2014, the company commissioned film and TV
producBons worth around 105 million Euros, including
programmes for around 73 million Euros from producers
in NRW. WDR’s most successful formats include the
Scene of the Crime episodes from Dortmund, Münster
and Cologne and the Sportschau. Regional reports from
NRW are another focus of WDR’s schedules. WDR is
also an important address for German TV entertainment
with shows like Frag doch mal die Maus.
WDR is an important part of NRW. Every day,
we are looking for ideas of how to best inform
and entertain the people in the region. This
isn’t possible without a vibrant and diverse
producBon landscape. We want to share ideas
with the producers and be the first address
for creaBve minds.
Jörg Schönenborn, Director Television
WDR
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RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, RTL Nitro
Germany’s most successful commercial television now
comes from the Cologne suburb of Deutz. Several years
have now seen the RTL Deutschland media group serving
as the cash cow for the RTL Group, Europe’s leading entertainment group owned by Bertelsmann. The RTL group of
broadcasters has played a significant role for For the TV
sector in NRW as the commissioner of TV producBons
and all kinds of services. RTL manages its own producBon
acBviBes in NRW via shareholdings in infoNetworks as well
as Norddeich TV and acBon concept. The RTL Television
channel is Germany’s leading commercial channel with
its varied programming mix and proves to be parBcularly
successful with young audiences. Its schedule line-up
includes large show events like Das Supertalent, news
programmes like RTL Aktuell, in-house produced series
such as Alarm For Cobra 11 and Deutschland 83 and major
event films like Starfighter and the new adaptaBon of
Winnetou. RTL’s sister channel Vox sets trends in its entertainment schedules with such formats as Dragon’s Den
or the hit series Club der roten Bänder. Super RTL has
been the most popular German TV channel with children
for many years. Other channels in the RTL family operaBng
from Cologne are n-tv and RTL Nitro as well as the digital
niche channels Passion, RTL Living, RTL Crime and
GEO Television.
Niche channels and regional television
Numerous TV operators having a specific focus to their
schedules have set up shop in NRW alongside the major
channels. QVC Deutschland, the market leader for teleshopping in Germany, is based in Düsseldorf’s Media Harbour.
RTL has been at home in NRW for 25 years. The lion’s share
of our programming is produced in Cologne: from news
and magazine programmes, which we broadcast live from
our broadcasBng centre each day, through big shows like
‚Deutschland sucht den Superstar’ and ‚Let’s Dance’ to
ficBon producBons like ‚Alarm für Cobra 11’ and daily series
‚Alles was zählt’ and ‚Unter uns’. Cologne’s offers ideal
condiBons with a professional infrastructure and a lively
creaBve scene.
Frank Hoffmann, Managing Director Programming
RTL Television
Atze Schröder
Sandra Maischberger
Sonja Zietlow
Oliver Welke
Olli Di=rich
Günther Jauch
Düsseldorf also serves as the headquarters for dctp as a
broadcasBng plaAorm for independent third-party providers
in German commercial television. Carus Media operates
digital niche channels like the auto motor and sport channel.
WDR offers regional TV programming through its 11
regional studios that are located all over NRW. ZDF has a
presence with one regional studio in Düsseldorf. NRW.
TV offers commercial regional television in Düsseldorf.
The broadcasters Center.tv, Köln.tv, CityVision and Studio
47 supply individual ciBes and regions with their own
range of programming.
Entertainment
Facts and Figures
> Germany’s number one TV hub
> One of the largest TV hubs in Europe
> WDR, RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, Phoenix
> QVC: Germany’s market leader for teleshopping
> Cologne: Germany’s undisputed TV capital
> Next GeneraBon TV: NRW hotspot of the
web video scene
> One-third of television programming produced
in Germany
> As many TV minutes as Bavaria, Hamburg and
Berlin combined
> Germany’s leading TV producers
> Broad spectrum: entertainment, shows, series,
comedy, sitcoms
> First-class infrastructure: studios and service-providers
> MMC: one of Europe’s largest state-of-the-art
studio complexes
> German Television Award, Grimme Award,
German Comedy Award, German Camera Award
folio includes comedy formats such as switch reloaded and
successful TV series like Wilsberg. The German office of
Sony Pictures has mainly been able to make an impact in
the market with successful comedy. Meanwhile, formats
like the start-ups show Dragon’s Den on Vox are now part
of the company’s line-up. Talpa Germany also has an office
in Cologne and is behind the RTL game show, The Ba=le of
the Sexes. >
NRW is definitely the front-runner when it comes to producing TV entertainment – with impressive market shares
in the genres of comedy (71%), docu-soaps (58%), or game
shows (50%). Almost all of the entertainment highlights
in German television are produced in the TV capital of
Cologne. PracBcally all of the major naBonal and internaBonal entertainment producers have their headquarters
or a branch office here.
Television sBll conBnues to fascinate people.
Here in Cologne, a lot of the kind of programming is produced that excites and entertains
the viewers. We are grateful for the fact that
we are able to work and live in such a creaBve
and innovaBve environment.
ITV Studios Germany group chose Cologne as the headquarters for its German operaBons, and has regularly
been one of the most successful TV producers in Germany
in recent years with such formats as I’m a Celebrity. Get
Me Out of Here! and Come Dine with Me. Tower ProducBon, a joint venture between the BriBsh TV group All3Media
and BBC Worldwide, has expanded its posiBon in the
market. The same goes for Warner Bros. Germany. Its port-
It is especially pleasing that the internaBonal
importance of North Rhine-Westphalia as a
TV producBon locaBon is increasing. Not only
the leading shows, but also the most successful
variaBons of German formats are coming
from Cologne.
ITV Studios, Warner, Sony and
Tower Produc4ons
At VOX, we as a channel depend on the creaBvity of our highly qualified personnel – this
applies as much within the RTL Germany Media
Group as it does in the collaboraBon with producBon companies. This is parBcularly relevant
at a Bme when we are wanBng to transform
the digital challenges into chances. And precisely those people able to do this are based
here in Cologne.
Bernd Reichart, Managing Director VOX
Claude Schmit, Managing Director
Super RTL
Ute Biernat, CEO
UFA Show and Factual
NRW, and Cologne in parBcular, are something
like the headquarters of the German TV entertainment sector: broadcasters, producers,
service-providers and studio operators are all
based here. There is no beCer infrastructure
for acBon-filled prime-Bme shows and big
media events in Europe.
Daniel Hartwich
Kaya Yanar
Anne=e Frier
Producers
Berengar Pfahl
Bildersturm
Bildundtonfabrik
Bonito TV
Boundless ProducBons
Brainpool TV
Broadview TV
Busse & Halberschmidt
Calypso Entertainment
colourfield
Dor Film
E+U-TV
edie film
EIKON West
eitelsonnenschein
Elsani Film
EM+Cox
encanto
Endemol Shine Germany
EngsAeld Film
Er-tal
Ester.Reglin.Film
Farbfilmfreunde
FFP New Media
Film BouBque
Filmgeschwister
Film-Manufaktur
filmpool
Florianfilm
Fruitmarket
Gebr. Beetz Köln
gff Geißendörfer
gilles:mann
Good Times FernsehprodukBon
greensky FILMS
Gruppe 5
HMR ProdukBon
Horizont TV
Hupe Film
i&u TV
info Network
iniBalfilm TV Media
ITV Studios Germany
Karibufilm
Kigali Films
Kromschröder & Pfannenschmidt
Lichtblick Film
LichAilm
loekenfranke
LoreCa Walz
LumanBk Film
Jörg Grabosch, Managing partner
BRAINPOOL TV
Television > 17
Jan Böhmermann
Television
Producers
Made in Germany
mali BiggerThanLife ProducBons
mediafields
megaherz
Michael Meert
Molina Film
Network Movie
Norddeich TV
Orangefilm
Power-Toons
Prime ProducBons
probono
Propeller Film
Pro TV
PuppetEmpire
RedSeven Entertainment
RheinFilm
Rowboat
sagamedia
Seapoint ProducBon
Shuto Entertainment
Skarabäus
Sony Pictures FFP
spin tv
SUR Films
Sutor Kolonko
Tacker Film
Taglicht Media
Tag/Traum
thevissen filmprodukBon
Tof Intermedia
Troika Entertainment
tvision
UFA FicBon
UFA Serial Drama
UFA Show and Factual
Uhland Film
Visual Bridges AG
Warner Bros. InternaBonal
TV ProducBon
Wellenreiter.tv
WestCom Media Holding
Wiedemann & Berg Film
Winkelmann FilmprodukBon
Zeitsprung Pictures
Zieglerfilm Köln
Zinnober Film
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Bas<an Pastewka
Anke Engelke
Endemol Shine Deutschland
Endemol Shine Deutschland, which became a global
network of leading entertainment companies a-er the
merger of both producBon houses Endemol and Shine
in 2014, works from its German headquarters on the
expansion of its business. The porAolio of the merged
group, which produces for all of the channels in German
television, includes long-running hit formats like Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? and the reality show Big
Brother as well as such popular young formats as
Circus Halligalli or Joko gegen Claas – Duell um die
Welt made in collaboraBon with Florida TV.
UFA Show and Factual
UFA Show and Factual is another key supplier of programming for German prime-Bme television. The company has
played a major role in shaping the genre of casBng shows
in German television and is behind such hit formats as Got
Talent and Idol. As a part of the leading global producBon
group of Fremantle Media, UFA Show and Factual has
access to an extensive internaBonal network.
Brainpool
Brainpool has successfully established new innovaBve
business models and evolved from a classic producer into
an all-embracing entertainment network since being launched in 1994. Successful Brainpool producBons are major
shows like Beat your Host, the TV total events and the
feature film Stromberg – The Movie which had a significant
porBon of its budget financed via crowdfunding. There is
hardly any other company like Brainpool that has made
such an impact on popular comedy acts with formats like
NRW – it represents a luxury dilemma: everything is right on your doorstep, including an
audience of 18 million that has no objecBon to
seeing its own region on film. I ask myself why
anyone would shoot anywhere else … ? We
certainly like shooBng here, and nothing is going
to change that. Thanks to the FilmsB-ung for
its enduring support, which makes the locaBon
ulBmately unique.
Leopold Hoesch, CEO, broadview pictures
Ladykracher, Pastewka, Cindy from Marzahn or Pussy Terror TV. The Cologne company also operates a successful
online video plaAorm – myspass.de – for comedy formats
at. With its subsidiaries, the company also handles talent
management, rights exploitaBon and live entertainment.
The company had to reduce its ope-raBons in 2014 a-er
the entertainment star Stefan Raab announced his intenBon to withdraw from show business.
Prime Produc4on, Bavaria Entertainment,
Bildundtonfabrik and Seapoint
Cologne-based Prime ProducBons also has parBcular
experBse in the field of humour. The company brought a
new feeling to ZDF in 2009 with the mulB-award-winning
heute-show. Bavaria Entertainment (known as First Entertainment unBl 2015), a subsidiary of Bavaria Film, produces,
among others, Die große Show der Naturwunder for Das
Erste through its Cologne branch office. In 2014, the newly
established Seapoint ProducBons decided to base itself
in Cologne. The subsidiary of the globally acBve TV sales
company Beta Film took on experienced personnel and
produces such programmes as the RTL prime-Bme show
Let’s Dance. Bildundtonfabrik from Cologne-Ehrenfeld has
also brought a breath of fresh air to German television
since 2012 with edgy formats and personaliBes like Roche
and Böhmermann and Neo Magazin Royale.
Home of the TV stars
NRW is the professional home of major TV stars. They are
not just appearing here in front of the camera, but are also
key movers and shakers in the TV industry as producers.
For instance, Brainpool runs joint producBon companies
Thanks to the large creaBve media network in
NRW, ITV Studios can produce such successes
as „Ich bin ein Star…“ or „Das perfekte Dinner“.
And the encounters with clients, service-providers and colleagues are always lively and
amusing because the regional character is
marked by a lot of humour and straight talking.
A very nice situaBon for me as a child from
the Ruhr region.
Chris<ane Ruff, CEO, ITV Studios
Christoph Maria Herbst
Henning Baum
with TV arBsts like Stefan Raab, Anke Engelke, Axel Stein
and Elton for their formats. Harald Schmidt produced his
late night show in-house at Cologne-Mülheim from 1997
to 2014. Günther Jauch has also been giving important
impetus to the industry with his own company i&u TV for
the past 15 years with such programmes as the stern TV
magazine. Frank Plasberg’s company Ansager und Schnipselmann is based in Düsseldorf, handling such ARD shows
as Frag doch mal die Maus or Hirschhausens Quiz des
Menschen alongside the poliBcal chat show Hart aber Fair.
And Friedrich Küpperbusch’s Cologne-based probono.tv
produces such formats as The Duel for n-tv or Könnes
kämp) for WDR, and has tried its hand at new poliBcal
formats in the Internet with the online channel probono TV.
And last but not least, woman whisperer Mario Barth’s
company Hauptstadt Helden TV in Düsseldorf produces
the RTL show Willkommen bei Mario Barth.
Ambi4ous documentary filmmakers
Broadview TV has established itself in NRW’s diverse documentary film scene as one of the leading producers of
documentaries on history and arts. Broadview TV made
the successful leap into the internaBonal theatrical business
with the sports biographies Klitschko and Nowitzki. The
Perfect Shot. High-quality documentaries for top brands in
German television like Terra X and Abenteuer Wissen are
the core business of Gruppe 5 FilmproducBon, a majority
subsidiary of ZDF since 2002. ColourFIELD from Dortmund
produces top-class documentary series like Tropic Fever
or Beau<ful Minds – A Voyage Into the Brain and has
made a name for itself, in parBcular, with the large-scale
ZDF project Germany from Above. NRW’s documentary
Producing in NRW – one could hardly wish for
more. Commissioning editors, authors, directors,
cinematographers, editors – many of the best
women and men in these professions live and
work here. We profit from the professionalism
and creaBvity of these colleagues on our
producBons.
Frank Plasberg, Managing shareholder
Ansager&Schnipselmann
Carolin Kebekus
scene also has a great number of smaller companies like
Bildersturm (Domian), EngsAeld Film (Camp 14 – Total
Control Zone), Lichtblick Film (Die Böhms – Architektur
einer Familie) or Fruitmarket (Beltracchi – The Art of
Forgery) with commiCed films reflecBng on culture and
society. The documentary iniBaBve at the Filmbüro NRW
in Cologne’s Mediapark is one of the places concerned
with greater professionalisaBon and networking within
this scene. >
As a producBon company, you have good
condiBons for working successfully in NRW
and, above all, in Cologne: this is where you
are close to the big media concerns, a good
infrastructure and a very lively scene of
creaBve heads.
Günther Jauch, presenter and
TV producer
NRW as a film region is a dream – so versaBle,
innovaBve, cooperaBve, creaBve, construcBve
and, above all, compact. For „Switch reloaded“,
for example, we used Cologne for the harbour
of Miami and then the LOST jungle on Hawaii,
and both were just five minutes apart on the
bicycle. Perfect.
Studios/service-providers
ACT VideoprodukBon
ARRI Media
blueBox
Brainpool Studios
Chaussee SoundVision
cine plus Köln
Cubic Studios
CuDng Crew
DAS WERK
Die Colorie
Edit StaBon
EinschniC Video- und
PostprodukBon
Farbkult
Filmwerk
HeadQuarter
Industriesauger TV
Infostudios
LavaLabs
Logosynchron
MMC Studios
nobeo
Pixellusion
runge TV
Scanline VFX
Scope VFX
SchniCwerk
Splendid Synchron
Studio 449
Think Global Media
Torus
vr3 Virtual ProducBon
WDR Bocklemünd
WeFadeToGrey
24 25 TV & MedienprodukBon
Mar<na Hill,
actress
Being creaBve and producing in NRW has many
advantages. The infrastructure is outstanding,
NRW is an unexhausBble source of humourisBc
inspiraBon, and the staff don’t have arduous
hairdos, meaningful taCoos or destrucBve
aDtudes like in Berlin.You’d be really stupid
to produce anywhere else.
Jan Böhmermann,
author, presenter, producer
Television > 19
Scene of the Crime Münster, WDR
Television
AnimaBon studios
3DHandwerk
AKIKA KommunikaBon
Blanx Effects InteracBve
Blickfischer
Chamaeleon Digital Vision
Daywalker Studios
DigitalArtCore
Elevision AnimaBon Studio
Grafik-Film
JEP-AnimaBon
Jörg Reddemann TrickfilmprodukBon
Parasol Island
Power-Toons
Radl AnimaBon
REBUSmedia
Stefan Eling Moving Pictures
Toonsisters
TrickStudio LuCerbeck
CasBng agencies
Anja Dihrberg CasBng
Die Besetzer
Cologne CasBng Pool
Filmcast
Finalcast
Horst D. Scheel
KrisBn Diehle CasBng
Marc SchöCeldreier CasBng
Outcast
supremeCast
Susanne RiCer CasBng
Tigercast
AssociaBons
film- und fernsehproduzentenverband NRW e.V.
Verband der Fernseh-, Film-,
MulBmedia- und VideowirtschaVFFVmedia e.V.
TV Events/awards
Cologne Conference
Deutscher Comedypreis
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
Deutscher Kamerapreis
Deutscher Webvideopreis
Grimme Preis
FICTION
NRW is also one of the most important locaBons for the
producBon and filming of ficBon formats. An impressive
number of TV events, TV movies, series, sitcoms and
daily soaps are made here.
Network Movie and Bavaria
Network Movie is a 100 per cent subsidiary of ZDF Enterprises, but also produces for RTL and ARD. Its many successful TV producBons include excepBonal films by MaD
Geschonneck, Hans Steinbichler and Lars Becker, but
also long-running series like Soko Köln or Die Chefin. The
Cologne branch of ARD’s own Bavaria FernsehprodukBon
is responsible, among other things, for such raBngs winners
as the successful Scene of the Crime (Tatort) producBons
from Cologne, Münster and Dortmund.
Filmpool, Geißendörfer, Rowboat, Tag/Traum,
Zeitsprung and Zieglerfilm
Lindenstraße has dominated Sunday viewing on German
television as well as the profile of Geißendörfer Film- und
FernsehprodukBon for 30 years. Apart from this hit series,
the company also produces films for cinema and TV as
well as internaBonal co-producBons such as the fantasy
bestsellers Ruby Red, Sapphire Blue and Emerald Green.
Tag/Traum follows a parBcular approach to its films’ subject maCer. The company has been producing documentaries and feature films for cinema and television for over
30 years, and o-en does this with internaBonal partners.
Zieglerfilm Cologne has also been behind numerous TV
successes like Der Mann mit dem Fago= or the WDR series
Meuchelbeck. Zeitsprung Pictures with offices in the western part of Cologne, has a presence in German TV with
NRW is situated at the centre of Europe. The
Rhine flows through NRW. It is a symbol for
pantha rei (everything flows) and nothing
stands sBll. New things are developed, acknowledged and used. Everything is in a flux.
Hans W. Geißendörfer, Geißendörfer
Film- und Fernsehproduk<on KG
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Alarm for Cobra 11, RTL
movies and series such as the RTL event Starfighter or the
ARD biopic Landauer. EmoBonally gripping TV movies for
private and public channels like Die Toten vom Bodensee
or Die kalte Wahrheit are a speciality of Rowboat, The
subsidiary of the film and TV sales company Beta Film
received an award at the 2013 InternaBonal Emmys for
Das Wunder von Kärnten. filmpool entertainment not
only lays claim to having invented the popular scripted
entertainment genres à la Berlin – Day and Night and
Cologne 50667. The subsidiary of the BriBsh All3Media
Group also produces quality TV ficBon like the Scene of
the Crime episodes from Münster via its filmpool ficBon
division. The Nadcon Film, a subsidiary of ConstanBn Film,
specialises in the co-producBon of high-quality TV and
film producBons with foreign partners.
Series, sitcoms, daily soaps
acBon concept has primarily made a name for itself with
acBon-driven producBons, led by the Alarm for Cobra 11
series which has also been successfully sold to 140 territories. 2013 saw acBon concept’s celebrated foray into the
internaBonal film business with its parBcipaBon in Rush,
directed by the Oscar-winner Ron Howard, and then followed by Boy 7 and Collide. The ITV Studios Germany succeeded in establishing a long-running and mulB-awardwinning ficBon series in German commercial TV with the
popular Sat.1 police series The Last Cop with Henning
Baum. 65 episodes were made of the Sat.1 series Danni
Lowinski with AnneCe Frier. UFA Serial Drama is a specialist for daily soaps. The subsidiary of the UFA Group/RTL
Group has produced more than 5,000 episodes of Unter
uns in Cologne’s MMC Studios since 1994. The daily soaps
Verbotene Liebe and Alles was zählt are also produced by
It’s fun producing in NRW – that’s not only
because the locaBons are usually ideal and
there is an exisBng infrastructure, but also
as the support from the authoriBes and
organisaBons is exemplary.
Hermann Joha, Managing Director
ac<on concept Film- & Stuntproduk<on
Polseres Vermelles, VOX
UFA Serial Drama. Sony Pictures Film und Fernseh ProdukBon is considered to be Germany’s most successful producer of sitcoms: formats like Nikola and Die Camper
were long-lasBng successes. Sony’s portolio has since expanded to include TV movies and shows. Cologne has also
been home since 2014 to Bantry Bay ProducBons, a newly
launched subsidiary of the film and TV sales company
Beta Film. Bantry Bay was quickly able to gain a foothold in
the market and is responsible for the VOX series Club der
roten Bänder as well as the highly regarded, series Weinberg (TNT).
TV events
Star Fighter, RTL
George, ARD
The Valley, TNT
Genera<on War, ZDF
The Wagner Files, ARTE
Sternstunden Ihres Lebens, ARD
the Cape Cross Studios, WDR’s producBon studios and
the studios of DFA and Cubic. Not forgeDng the complete
shooBng infrastructure from equipment rental to postproducBon service-providers. And thanks to the large
Bundesliga stadiums as well as mulB-funcBonal halls
such as the Lanxess Arena and the Esprit Arena, NRW
has made a name for itself as the venue for major media
events like the Eurovision Song Contest and the final of
Germany’s Next Top Model. <
Major German TV producers, with the Bertelsmann subsidiary UFA FicBon Zeitsprung Pictures and ConstanBn
Film to the fore, have been working for several years on
producing high-quality TV events for all the major TV
channels in NRW. The TV highlights of recent years, which
were supported by the Film und MediensB-ung NRW,
include the award-winning producBons GeneraBon War
and Dresden for ZDF, Stauffenberg and Landauer for ARD,
and Hindenburg and Starfighter for RTL.
MMC is ideally posiBoned as the TV entertainment house in Germany. This would not
be possible without the unique NRW mix of
infrastructure, creaBves, service-providers,
broadcasters, producers and funders who all
deliver top-rate performances.
NRW has not only seen the development of a TV infrastructure unique within Europe over the past few decades, but
it has also acquired a considerable advantage in the experience gained. Technical service-providers like MMC, who
operates one of Europe’s largest state-of-the-art studio
complexes and nobeo are regarded as top addresses for
modern and highly specialised TV services. The region has
a wide range of producBon faciliBes and technical knowhow for all kinds of TV formats with other studios like
NRW is colourful, lively, bright and liberal.
Those are characterisBcs which promote
creaBvity, offer ferBle soil for talents and
make good work possible. We feel fine
in NRW!
Studios, equipment and service-providers
NRW is an important region in Germany and
at the heart of Europe, and this importance
should be reflected in its media presence. The
prerequisites are fulfilled in NRW in terms of
logisBcs, financing and personnel to an outstanding extent. No-one who uses them will
regret opBng for this locaBon.
Wolfgang Cimera, Managing Director
Network Movie
Philip Borbély, Managing Director
MMC Studios
Sam Davis, CEO
Rowboat
NRW events
1LIVE Krone
Advance
Art Cologne
c/o pop ConvenBon
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis
Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
Deutscher Webvideopreis
Duisburger Filmwoche
Eurovision Song Contest 2011
GDC Europe
Grimme Preis
Grimme Online Award
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
Int. Köln Comedy FesBval
Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Int. FrauenfilmfesBval
Dortmund|Köln
InteracBve Cologne
Karlsmedaille für Europ. Medien
Kinofest Lünen
lit.Cologne
Medienforum NRW
Phil.Cologne
Radio AdverBsing Summit
red dot award
Ruhrtriennale
TV-Wirkungstag
Funding
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
Contacts
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.locaBonnrw.de
www.medien.nrw.de
Excellent public support, a good infrastructure,
big TV staBons, lots of creaBve people, Europe’s
biggest studio at MMC and experienced providers of services for cinema, films and television:
for Zeitsprung NRW is the ideal producBon
locaBon and a major centre of the television
medium.
Michael Souvignier, Managing Director
Zeitsprung Pictures
Television > 21
Game developers
2Up Mobile
42 DP
addmore games
Aruba Studios
BigBlackBlock Gamestudio
bigitec GmbH
b-InterakBve
Blue Byte
Brainseed Factory
Bright Future
Bumblebee
CreneBc Studios
Destrax Entertainment
Dot8 Studio
EgosoEurosimtec
Flying Sheep Studios
Frame6
FunaBcs So-ware
Gaming Minds Studios
Grey Rook Entertainment
Hammer Labs
Independent Arts So-ware
Joindots
Kaasa Health
Kaasa SoluBons
Konzeptzwei
m2p entertainment
mobivenBon
Neopoly
Nurogames
Outline Development
peîra
Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13
RockAByte
Silent Dreams
Silent Future
Snowstep Development
Springwald So-ware
Sunlight Games
takomat
The Good Evil
Triboot Technologies
Ubiso- Blue Byte
Virtual Playgrounds
VIS Games and Entertainment
Zone 2 Connect
Z-So-ware
Game publishers
Aerosoad tronic So-ware & Services
astragon So-ware
bhv Publishing
CreneBc Publishing
Electronic Arts
Headup Games
Nokia
OnlineFußballManager
RTL interacBve
UbisoService-providers
Aruba Events
CenBgrade
comixfactory
Cubicity
Daywalker Studios
EffecBve Media
Eye Rock Media
Fendtasy
Freelancer Games
GreenMamba-Studios
Instance Four
Michael Filipowski
Mobile Game Design
FIFA 13
Games
Prominent interna4onal games hub
Major internaBonal publishers, a strong developer scene
and globally prominent games events provide the backbone
of the game hub in NRW, which is among the financially
strongest in Germany. The industry in NRW today has a
diversified structure – from the market-leading publisher
through award-winning avantgarde designers and eSports
specialists to developers of games-based therapy concepts.
Aware of the industry’s cultural and economic importance,
the Land of NRW supports the transfer of innovaBve game
technologies into classical industries by, among other things,
the Engage.NRW interface iniBaBve.
Electronic Arts and Ubiso"
One of the world’s leading internaBonal companies in the
field of interacBve entertainment so-ware, Electronic Arts,
has its headquarters in Cologne’s Rheinauhafen from where
it distributes games like Ba=lefield, Need for Speed, or the
popular FIFA series. The French company Ubiso- is also
one of the five largest publishers in the world and has its
German HQ in Düsseldorf. The Astragon Group is now the
second largest producer and distributor of computer games
in Germany. The company established its posiBon, above
all, with the successful simulaBon games such as the
award-winning Farming Simulator.
Well-connected developer scene in the
Rhine and Ruhr region
The game companies benefit from the closely knit and
well-connected developer scene in the region. The Bright
Future development studio emerged from internal studios
of the US publisher Electronic Arts, while Ubiso- took
over the Blue Byte studio in 2001 and has since been
With its dynamism and good educaBonal
landscape, NRW yields creaBve talents for the
games industry. The local developers’ scene
must be supported with specific funding programmes so that games „made in NRW“ can
become a trademark.
Benedikt Grindel, Managing Director
Ubiso)-Studio Blue Byte
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the exclusive distributor of the legendary strategic game
series The Se=lers and Anno. Founded in Mülheim an
der Ruhr in 1988, Blue Byte is regarded as the the nucleus
of the lively game scene in the Ruhr region with such
companies as the Crazy Chicken’s inventor Phenomedia
in Bochum and its subsidiary at the Bme, Piranha Bytes.
These companies in turn led to such new players as Nevigo
and today’s Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13, which is responsible,
among other things, for the successful fantasy role playing games Gothic and Risen. Since its launch in 2009,
Headup Games has released over 70 Btles for all game platforms in Germany and abroad. In 2015, the mulB-awardwinning Headup Btle Typoman – previously funded by the
Film- und MediensB-ung – was released exclusively on
the Nintendo Wii U plaAorm. The local scene spawned
the Ahoiii! Studio in Cologne which received numerous
awards for its Fiete children’s game.
Online gaming, serious games, eSports
More recent trends in the game market are also reflected
in NRW. For instance, Ubiso- agreed on a strategic partnership with RTL InteracBve for online gaming. The established FunaBcs development studio is also acBve in this
conBnuously growing segment with such browser games
as Cultures Online. Successful players in the field of serious
games include Takomat or the mulB-award-winning
Ijsfontein InteracBve Media which was set up in Düsseldorf in 2015. The so-ware developer Kaasa is dedicated
to the applicaBon of game technologies in the health care
sector. Turtle Entertainment has firmly established itself as
an eSport specialist alongside around 75 game studios
and more than a dozen publishers in NRW. Among other
things, it operates the Electronic Sports League and is,
Authors, directors, designers, programmers,
actors and musicians need a creaBve, networked environment in order to create computer games. This is exactly what NRW and
the area around Cologne have to offer.
Olaf Coenen, Vice President Growth Markets
Electronic Arts Germany
Facts and Figures
Spleemo & Glob: Monster Defense Fiete
Typoman
Paula
Anno
internaBonally, the biggest league for computer gamers
in Europe with over 5 million players on a regular basis. In
2014, Daedalic Entertainment, one of the most awarded
of Germany’s publishers and developers and known, for
example, for its charming adventure games, opened a new
developer studio in Düsseldorf, followed by the successful
online game provider Innogames and several Korean
game companies.
gamescom, GDC, Developer Award, Respawn
PresBgious events regularly make NRW into a naBonal
and internaBonal centre of the game industry. In 2015,
gamescom was held in Cologne for the seventh Bme and
again posted record figures: more than 345,000 visitors
and more than 800 exhibitors made gamescom once more
into the world’s biggest trade fair for interacBve entertainment. Parallel to gamescom, the Game Developers
Conference (GDC), the young developers conference
Respawn, the Notgames Fest, the InteracBve Arts FesBval
of the Cologne Game Lab, the PlaBne FesBval for Electronic Art, and Evoke, Germany’s biggest demo party, offer
a varied programme for industry figures as well as the
games scene. And not to forget that the VideoDays bring
the top stars of the web video scene onto the stage of
Cologne’s Lanxess Arena for Europe’s biggest YouTuber
gathering with over 15,000 visitors. The most important
quality showcase for the video game industry is the German
Developer Award which is supported by the Film- und
MediensB-ung NRW. The award ceremony is accompanied
by a German-language professional conference. An exciBng
mixture of panels and conference on trends in the world
of games is offered by the Next Level Conference.
As a naBve of the former capital of Bonn, I
can say from experience that a concentraBon
of creaBvity exists in NRW. I am proud of the
fact that I am able to be involved at the forefront of the game industry on the internaBonal
stage – and can doing this with just colleagues
from NRW.
Bilal Chbib, CEO
Brainseed Factory
> One of the financially strongest game hubs
in Germany
> Global players Electronic Arts and Ubiso> gamescom in Cologne – games trade fair of
global significance
> One in four German game developers based in NRW
> Arvato, one of the most important distributors
> Wide range of training opportuniBes
> GDC Europe, Respawn, German Developer Award,
gamescom conference
> Engage.NRW as interface between games and
classical industries
Games research and teaching
The universiBes and colleges in NRW are also conBnually
expanding their experBse in the field of games: Cologne’s
TH, for example, has developed the Cologne Game Lab
in cooperaBon with the ifs internaBonale filmschule köln,
offering a B.A. Degree in Digital Games and the Master’s
Degree in Game Development and Research. The TH Köln
and Cologne Game Lab organise the Clash of RealiBes academic games conference in collaboraBon with Electronic
Arts. The courses in Games Design at the Media Design
College in Düsseldorf are also unique in Germany, while
the universiBes of Paderborn and Duisburg-Essen have
research specialisaBons in the area of computer games.
The SAE InsBtute offers games courses in the fields of
programming and graphics at its campuses in Bochum
and Cologne.
Promo4on of ideas and start-ups
The Film- und MediensBfung NRW has been supporBng
young developers and start-ups in the region since 2011
with its pilot funding programme for innovaBve audiovisual
content. Create.Media.NRW is the leading market compeBBon launched by the federal state government to provide sustainable support for the media industry in NRW,
and primarily new projects in the field of games. Young
talents from the game industry are also supported by the
Mediengründerzentrum NRW through the awarding of
bursaries which also provide advice and networking of
the young entrepreneurs with the industry. The UFA Lab
in Cologne, the innovaBon unit of the UFA producBon
group, supports collaboraBon between young creaBves
from all of the content industries. <
We opened an office in NRW to provide an
entree into the industry for those talents
who would like to work on culturally valuable
games without applying the thumbscrews,
but with lots of creaBve freedom. A-er a few
weeks, it could be seen that the plan was a
complete success.
Carsten Fichtelmann, CEO & Founder
Daedalic Entertainment Studio West,
Düsseldorf
Squirrel & bear
Service-providers
Nevigo
Partnertrans
Phoenix Grafik
planetlan
TASK four Studio
The Art of Games
The Light Works
Timm Dapper
Turtle Entertainment
Two Pi Team
Webchef
Webdesign Höhne
4D Projects
Gaming communiBes
ESL Electronic Sports League
FRONTmedien
Gamechannel.de
Gameforum.de
n!faculty
Research/training insBtuBons
Cologne Game Lab
FH Köln – Insitut für
Medienforschung
und Medienpädagogik
ifs internaBonale filmschule köln
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf
SAE InsBtute
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universität Paderborn
Events/awards
Clash of RealiBes
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis
gamescom
Gametreff NRW
GDC Europe
Next Level Conference
Respawn
Role Play ConvenBon
Sports Media Summit
Networks
eco – Verband der deutschen
Internetwirtscha- e.V.
Fachhochschule Köln –
Projekt „Spielraum“
Zentrum für interakBve Medien e.V.
Support
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
Mediencluster NRW
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
NRW.BANK
Games > 23
Companies
acBve value
Adcloud
artegic
arvato
Betafabrik
BILDblog
Bookmerken
Brain InjecBon
buch.de/bol.de
Clipfish.de
ConBlla
Coworking Cologne
deutsche-startups.de
dotKoeln
Endemol beyond
e-Spirit
goneo Internet GmbH
gpluscharts.de
Imperia
InVision
kalaydo.de
KultFrame
MediakraMerky.de
nacamar
Play Massive
Putpat TV
quintly
Railslove
Responsive Design Viewer
RTL interacBve
Ruhrbarone.de
Seitwert
Seitzeichen
topiclodge
WAZ NewMedia
WDR mediagroup digital
web2null.de
woist.es
10000 Flies
9elements
Agencies
01 Digitales Design
antwerpes ag
Crossmedia
denkwerk
e-mediad
geBt
Krankikom
LBi Germany
lunapark
netSTART Venture
nexum AG
Nionex
Oevermann Networks
People InteracBve
radikant
Reality Bytes Neue Medien
Rheinklang Media
ruhmesmeile
Spyke Media
TWT InteracBve
www.kennziffer.com
wysiwyg So-ware Design
zeec
Events
BewegtbildstammBsch
Advance
Cologne Web Content Forum
Consumer Content Conference
dmexco
Grimme Online Award
InteracBve Cologne
The Bobs Awards
Deutscher Webvideopreis
facebook’s global network
Internet & Web
The Internet industry will conBnue to be one of the fastest
growing business sectors in Germany in the years to come
– that’s something all forecasts agree upon. But what’s
even more important is its significance as a cross-sectoral
industry: as digiBsaBon and interconnecBon of economic
processes progresses, this creates interfaces to many other
economic sectors and is therefore an important catalyst
for the digiBsaBon of society. Good for NRW: being both
an economically strong industrial region and a top media
hub, the federal state offers very good applicaBon potenBal for Internet companies and digital start-ups with its
strong environment of industry, commerce and services.
Numerous e-commerce companies are directly benefiDng
from the online boom such as hrs.de, qvc.de or buch.de,
as well as service-providers like the Bertelsmann subsidiary
arvato, which has over 70,000 employees around the globe
handling the logisBcs and payments of online services.
Another driving force of these developments are the
major retail groups in NRW, the Metro Group or REWE
Group which has bundled all of the group’s online acBviBes
into the fast growing REWE Digital unit. Meanwhile, Ströer
Media has become the market leader in online markeBng,
all the more so since its takeover of InteracBve Media and
T-Online in 2015. The company is already a giant in the
market for outdoor adverBsing and posts an overall annual
turnover of 721 million Euros with 2,380 employees.
Clipfish, Mediakra", Videovalis, Ampya
The players of the NRW media industry have also consistently expanded their Internet services: alongside the
successful online presences of the RTL channels, the
Thanks to systemaBc networking and promoBon
of innovaBon, North Rhine-Westphalia has developed into one of Germany’s leading digital hubs.
The diversity of top-notch digital media companies
– parBcularly in the creaBve and cosmopolitan
city of Cologne – is also playing an increasingly
important role in this respect.
Mark Schröder, CEO
RTL Interac<ve
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broadcasBng group also operates its own Clipfish.de entertainment portal via the RTL InteracBve subsidiary, increasingly refining it both technically and themaBcally in recent
years. The successful music video plaAorm putpat.tv,
founded in 2008 by Cologne’s TVRL, now operates in the
net under name of Ampya a-er its takeover by the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in 2015. Mediakra- is a pioneer in
online video for Germany and Europe. As one of the online
TV channels in Central Europe with the widest reach, the
company manages and markets numerous online channels
in the areas of entertainment, informaBon and lifestyle,
reaching an average 1.6 million viewers each day. Moreover, the company supports the most talented video makers
in the development and producBon of their content. One
of the leading independent German online video serviceproducers has been established in Cologne in the shape
of Videovalis where publishers and adverBsers receive
individual soluBons for the broadcasBng and markeBng
of moving images.
kalaydo, DerWesten, Funke Digital
Alongside the moving images sector, NRW’s publishing
sector has also been developing its online services in a
creaBve and profitable way. The best example is kalaydo.de,
an Internet ad portal founded by such NRW publishers
as M. DuMont Schauberg, Rheinische Post and Bonner
Generalanzeiger. Around six million visits each month,
over 1.8 million registered users and many awards are
evidence of its successful concept. The Funke Media
Group successfully operates the DerWesten.de local news
portal which posts over 10 million visits each month.
Extensively developed broadband connecBons,
many other great YouTubers with whom one
can launch some great projects, and a mulBtude
of MCNs and media producBon companies
ensure that NRW is the ideal federal state for
YouTubers and streamers.
Peter Smits (PietSmiet), CEO
PietSmiet
Facts and Figures
> NRW – leading digital and „convergence hub“
> Leading region in online adverBsing
> REWE, Metro & Co. – major retail groups as drivers
of e-commerce
> Broadly aligned IT and developer scene
> Leading web video hub in Germany
> Valid start-up ecosystem
> Important Internet agencies in NRW
> kalaydo.de, clipfish.de, buch.de, qvc.de, and others
> Central insBtuBons: Bundesverband Digitale
Wirtscha-, eco – AssociaBon of the German
Internet Industry, Web de Cologne, Digitale Stadt
Düsseldorf, Eyes & Ears of Europe, and others
> PresBgious industry events: dmexco, Advance,
Grimme Online Award, InteracBve Cologne,
German Web Video Award, VideoDays
Cleverbridge, Valtech, denkwerk & Co.
The diverse and innovaBve landscape of so-ware developers and Internet service-providers serves as a motor for
NRW’s Internet sector. The internaBonally acBve Cleverbridge in Cologne offers e-commerce soluBons for so-ware
and cloud providers. Content management systems are
provided by Imperia AG from Cologne’s Hürth or e-Spirit
from Dortmund, hosBng and streaming services by nacamar
from Düsseldorf – to menBon only a few examples. Cologne’s ConBlla has special experBse in the trend sector of
content markeBng. And Eyeo, also based in Cologne, sBrs
up the online market with its innovaBve adblocker soluBons. The Internet agencies regard themselves as a partner
for the digital transformaBon of companies. The past few
years have seen the appearance of the full-service digital
agencies Valtech, TWT InteracBve und exc.io in Düsseldorf,
denkwerk, nexum AG und Digitas LBI in Cologne as well
as i22 in Bonn among the biggest providers alongside the
Telekom subsidiary T-Systems MulBmedia SoluBons with
its branch office in Bonn.
Networking and events
Each September sees the koelnmesse extend an invitaBon
to come to Cologne for dmexco, the professional trade
fair for digital markeBng and adverBsing. Almost 900 exhibitors and over 43,000 professional delegates made the
event the centre of the global digiconomy in 2015. Web de
in Cologne has networking and qualificaBon in the Internet
industry as its objecBve. As a way of achieving this, the
iniBaBve organises more than 30 events throughout the
year for its members, including the Start-up Breakfast and
A law from the “Cologne consBtuBon” shows
just why the Internet sector is ideally located in
NRW: “Et bliev nix wie et wor” (nothing stays
the same) – expressing openness to new developments – underlines the innovaBve spirit and
desire for progress in the region. These are the
best condiBons for online companies.
Michael Loeb, CEO
WDR mediagroup
the Web de Cologne CEO Lunch. The associaBon is also
the iniBator of InteracBve Cologne. The annual digital fesBval in Cologne sees itself as being an innovaBve industry
plaAorm for future social issues about work, leisure, health,
communicaBon, media, mobility and sport. The Advance
Day start-up conference has already spawned spin-offs
like the Advance Pitching Day and the Advance Hackathon
for digital developers and designers. The Digitale Stadt
Düsseldorf associaBon, an amalgamaBon of important
media, IT and telecommunicaBons companies, regularly
organises networking events like the Digitalk. Apart from
the Düsseldorf-based Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaand und eco - AssociaBon of the German Internet Industry
in Cologne, NRW is also a venue for the renowned Grimme
Online Awards which are annually presented by the disBnguished Grimme InsBtute in Marl
Web video scene
NRW’s posiBon as Germany’s No. 1 TV hub remains
unchallenged on a naBonal level. The federal state has
also developed in the meanBme into a leading hub for
web TV and web video producBon . The VideoDays in
Cologne consequently break aCendance records each year
– with over 15,000 visitors in 2014 –, while the scene’s
most important accolade, the German Web VideoAward,
is presented in Düsseldorf each year. In addiBon, the
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW and the European Web
Video Academy have been awarding bursaries for the
development of web videos since 2014. The funding also
includes parBcipaBon in a training and support programme
organised by the European Web Video Academy. <
EducaBon/training
Cognos AG
Deutsche Medienakademie Köln
European Web Video Academy
Fachhochschule Aachen
Fachhochschule Dortmund
Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen
Fachhochschule Köln
Hochschule Fresenius
Macromedia Hochschule
Medien Management InsBtut
memi Köln
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
SAE InsBtute
Universität Köln
AssociaBons
Bundesverband Digitale
Wirtscha- (BVDW) e.V.
Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf
eco – Verband der deutschen
Internetwirtscha- e.V.
European Web Video Academy
Eyes & Ears of Europe
OpenImmo
Web de Cologne
Zentrum für interakBve Medien
Contacts
www.medien.nrw.de
www.filmsB-ung.de
NRW is the No. 1 federal state for web video.
Nowhere are there more successful web video
makers, nowhere is the young video scene
more acBve. Although the life of the YouTube
generaBon takes place on the net: the personal
contact is sBll the most important. And NRW
provides the best condiBons for this – as well
as for the German Web Video Award.
Markus Hündgen, Managing Partner,
Chief Execu<ve Videopunk
Internet & Web > 25
Need for Speed Shi)
Mobile
Companies
E-Plus
Ericsson
GeDngs
Huawei
IBM
netSTART Venture
Nokia
Seven Principles
T-Mobile
Vodafone
ZTE
App developers
2up Mobile
4D Media
acBve value
AppCom InteracBve
Apps4friends
AppseleraBon
Aquapony
BaM! InteracBve MarkeBng
BigiTec
Coupies
Fingerfood
fitogram
FKT42
Gamobi
GeoMobile
Gesamtkunstwerk Entertainment
Glanzkinder
g.on experience
GrandCentrix
Hot Chili Apps
InnoMoS
Kaasa SoluBon
Maple Apps
MEiAPPS
MeDgel So-ware
mobivenBon
mobix
MWC.mobi
net mobile AG
Opwoco
oneline media
Pi FilmprodukBon
Mobile first in NRW
NRW and, above all, the regional capital of Düsseldorf are
characterised by a disBncBve value network for the mobile
sector unique in Germany: three of the four largest German
operators of mobile phone networks – T-Mobile, Vodafone
and E-Plus – are based in NRW. In total, more than 40%
of all those companies working in this sector in Germany
are located here – a complex landscape with providers
of mobile infrastructures, service and content-providers
through to manufacturers of end devices, supplemented
by such new dynamic areas of added value as mobile apps
and soluBons and mobile markeBng. The Future is Mobile
– all the forecasters agree on that. It’s not just that every
second German over 14 is already using a smartphone,
with the figures rising. Mobile communicaBon has also
had a big impact on human behaviour, work, consumpBon, and life. The market has correspondingly been inexorable in its growth: the turnover with apps alone grew in
Germany in 2015 to 1.3 billion Euros, around 40% more
than in the previous year. Almost three-quarters of the
turnover is generated by so-called in-app transacBons,
offers subject to a charge within an app which, in itself, is
available for free. The range of apps has since approached
the four million mark. The cooperaBon with other mobile
and media industries has proven, in parBcular, to be an
important success factor as providers look to provide an
extensive range of mobile services to the consumers. NRW
offers an ideal environment for this with an excellent game
infrastructure, large TV and publishing scene as well as
NRW’s naBonally unique posiBon in the field of geodata.
Coupies has its company headquarters in the
centre of Cologne, the Internet city. Besides an
acBve Web 2.0 scene and the biggest mobile
phone companies in Düsseldorf and Bonn, the
economic informaBon technology department
of the University of Cologne is a great address
for new ideas.
Frank Schleimer, co-founder and CEO
Coupies
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Successful apps development: Glanzkinder,
mobiven4on, Appsrise, Grandcentrix
Embedded in this ferBle environment, an innovaBonfriendly developer scene has emerged in NRW in recent
years to design and market applicaBons for smartphones.
Since the beta phase of the iPhone, Glanzkinder from
Cologne, for example, has developed over 300 applicaBons
to date for such clients as Siemens, BMW, Audi, and subsequently won numerous awards. 100% Made in Germany
or NRW – those are the apps from mobivenBon of Cologne,
which has made a name for itself throughout Europe with,
among other things, such games as Hangman Hero and
Tic Tac Toe as well as graphic applicaBons. Other industry
giants like Vodafone have given rise to new companies
such as AppseleraBon which was taken over by Apprise in
2014. The previous year saw one of the largest developers
of mobile apps, Mubaloo, seCng up shop in the mobile
capital of Düsseldorf to offer a full service to companies
and brands for all things to do with apps. NRW is also
excepBonally well-posiBoned in the field of mobile marketing, not least of all thanks to its prospering adverBsing
scene with such companies as BaM! InteracBve.
Mobile TV: RTL, WDR
Television is also becoming increasingly mobile and represents an extensive field of business in NRW. In Cologne,
for example, the broadcaster subsidiaries WDR mediagroup and RTL interacBve are both involved in adapBng
their TV programmes for mobile applicaBons. Apart from
very popular programmes like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the mobile version of the Clipfish entertainment
NRW is THE media region par excellence since
we also have a creaBve media landscape alongside solid technology that is concentrated in a
radius of 150 km – and all of this with the nice
ambience of the Rhine and Ruhr: the perfect
combinaBon for breathtaking apps.
Mustafa Mussa, CEO
bam! Interac<ve
Molly Monster
The Day It Rained Forever
Tomb Raider Underworld
portal meets the demand for all kinds of moving image.
Grandcentrix develops and handles more than 22 applicaBons for RTL, incl. the mobile apps for Idol, Got Talent
and X-Factor. Moreover, the company is also behind the
smartphone app for the ARD-Quizduell as a commission
from ITV Studios Germany Cologne.
Loca4on-based services
In NRW, the importance of geodata for business and the
media was recognised early on. The result: a unique posiBon
within Germany as shown by developers of successful
applicaBons based on geodata, who have set up shop in
the Rhine and Ruhr region. A key B2B provider of navigaBon
cards and soluBons is the Herne-based Logiball GmbH,
who, among other things, is the official distributor of the
TomTom navigaBon device producer. Logiball has developed
into Europe’s largest independent IT service-provider in
the field of digital street maps. We make the World more
accessible is also the mission of GeoMobile GmbH from
Dortmund as the leading internaBonal development serviceprovider in the field of mobile, spaBal assistant systems.
In 2013, GeoMobile’s GeoCompanion app, which provides
orientaBon and security for journeys in crisis and war
zones, received the Human TelemaBk Award. Meanwhile,
Naviki is a route planner for bicycle tours – a successful
app by Beemo GmbH from Münster, which was developed
at the city’s University of Applied Sciences. A success story
from the NRW start-up scene is the Cologne-based firm
Coupies offering locaBon-based coupons and discounts of
its partner companies on mobile phones. The company is
now Germany’s largest mobile couponing plaAorm with
Now a leader in the field of counter-surveillance, Secusmart highly appreciates the
support from the Land of NRW. This includes
the valuable networks and key industry events
such as the Düsseldorf mobile campaign:
NRW breathes mobility.
Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, CEO
Secusmart
Filifant
Facts and Figures
> Mobile phone market leaders:
Vodafone, T-Mobile, E-Plus,
> In total, 40 % of German mobile companies in NRW
> Successful scene for app developers
> Efficient infrastructure
> Mobile capital Düsseldorf
> Pioneer in the field of locaBon-based services
> CreaBve start-up scene
> iOS Devcon, Advance, InteracBve Cologne
around 3.5 million mobile end users. The publishing houses
are also benefiBng from the efficient infrastructure in NRW
such as the Funke Media Group with its WAZ Stau-Info
mobile navigaBon system.
Mobile future in NRW
NRW thinks mobile. Even though there may be the occasional traffic jam on the streets, Cologne was in fact the first
German city to be included by Telekom in its new highspeed mobile network LTE, and, thanks to the locally-based
Vodafone concern. NRW also shows in other ways that
there is a commitment to preparing for the mobile future:
this is where car parking payment by mobile phone was
first introduced in Germany and mobile car-sharing services were launched very early on. This is where Sevenval,
the inventor of FIT Technology and one of the technological
leaders for mobile web so-ware, is based. It is only logical
then that the central industry events such as the app
developers conferences Mobile TesBng Days and iOS
Devcon are held in NRW. Each year sees Cologne’s digital
fesBval InteracBve Cologne addressing future issues about
the mobile society and organising networking events for
the sector with tradiBonal industries.
As a leading hub for start-ups, NRW also has numerous
insBtuBons supporBng mobile start-ups in their launch
and growth phases, such as the incubator 1st Mover in
Düsseldorf or the Startplaz in Cologne and Düsseldorf.
And, last but not least, the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
has also acknowledged the mobile future with its new
funding programme for innovaBve audiovisual content
and supports the young developers’ scene in the region.
This help has resulted, among other things, in the producBon of the first Ger-man interacBve thriller, The Day
it Rained Forever for the iPhone by Gesamtkunstwerk
Entertainment and the 360° project Die fün-e Jahreszeit
(Alaaf you). The support from the Film- und MediensB-ung
NRW also enabled the UFA Lab NRW to establish itself as
an open innovaBon plaAorm for digital developers and
start-ups in Cologne. <
The Sims 3
Rabbids Big Bang
App developers
Pythia Mobile Infotainment
Rheinfabrik
RockAByte
Rocket Apes
RTL interacBve
SapientNitro
Sevenval
UbisoStartplatz
The APP Guys
WDR mediagroup
Widjet
wp soluBons
EducaBon/training
ifs internaBonale filmschule köln
Events/awards
Advance
Digitalk+
DWNRW AWARD
InteracBve Cologne
iOS Devcon
AssociaBons/networks
Bundesverband
Digitale Wirtscha- (BVDW)
Cluster IKT.NRW
Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf
eco – Verband der deutschen
Internetwirtscha- e.V.
engage.NRW
networker NRW
Web de Cologne
wisnet
Contacts
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.medien.nrw.de
www.ikt.nrw.de
Mobile > 27
Newspaper publishers/media groups
Altmeppen Verlag
Aschendorff Medien
B. Boll Verlag des
Busch Business Media
Solinger TageblaC
Bertelsmann
Bonner Zeitungsdruckerei
und Verlagsanstalt Neusser
E. Holterdorf
Emma Frauenverlag
Funke Mediengruppe
Haller KreisblaC
HandelsblaC
IVZ Medien
J. Fleißig
J. Horstmannsche Buchhandlung
J.C.C. Bruns Betriebs-GmbH
Lensing Medien
Lensing-Wolff
Lippischer Zeitungsverlag Giesdorf
Märkischer Zeitungsverlag
Mediengruppe DuMont Schauberg
Mergelsberg
Neußer Zeitungsverlag
paffrath print & medien
Rheinisch-Bergische Druckereiund VerlagsgesellschaRheinische Post VerlagsgesellschaSiegener Zeitung
Vorländer + Rothmaler
Süderländer TageblaC
Verlag J. Bauer
Jahn Verlag
Westdeutsche Allgemeine
Zeitungsverlag
W. Girardet Verlag und
WerbemiCel
WesAalen-BlaC
Vereinigte Zeitungsverlage
WesAälischer Anzeiger Verlag
Zeitungsverlag Aachen
Zeitungsverlag Der Patriot
Zeitungsverlag Iserlohn IKZ
Wichelhoven Verlag
Zeitungsverlag Neue WesAälische
Zeitungsverlag Niederrhein
Zeitungsverlag Rubens
Newspapers
Aachener Nachrichten
Aachener Zeitung
Bonner General-Anzeiger
Der Patriot
Die Glocke
Express
HandelsblaC
Hellweger Anzeiger
Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger
und Zeitung
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
Kölnische Rundschau
Mendener Zeitung
Mindener TageblaC
Münstersche Zeitung
Neue WesAälische
Neuß-Grevenbroicher Zeitung
NRZ – Neue Ruhr Zeitung
Recklinghäuser Zeitung
Remscheider General-Anzeiger
Rheinische Post
Ruhr Nachrichten
Siegener Zeitung
Soester Anzeiger
Solinger TageblaC
Süderländer TageblaC
M.DuMont Schauberg, Cologne
Publishers
Together with Düsseldorf’s HandelsblaC and the Ippen
Gruppe, Bertelsmann, the Funke Media Group and the
DuMont Schauberg Media Group are not only the most
important publishing houses in NRW, but also in the whole
of Germany. Classic publishing houses have long since
become broad-based content enterprises as a result of
the digital transformaBon of the markets. Diverse and
high quality local journalism in NRW has been supported
since 2014 by the independent foundaBon SB-ung Vielfalt
und ParBzipaBon which operates under the auspices of
the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW.
Bertelsmann, Funke, DuMont Schauberg
Bertelsmann, with revenues of 16.7 billion Euros, is the
largest media group in Europe. The Bertelsmann group
with its headquarters in Westphalia’s Gütersloh consists
of five main business divisions: the RTL Group, Gruner +
Jahr magazine publishers, the Penguin Random House
publishing group, Arvato AG, and the BE Printers Group.
The RTL Group is Europe’s largest broadcaster and operates
TV and radio channels as well as leading content producers
such as UFA FicBon or UFA Show & Factual. Two of Germany’s
three largest newspaper publishing houses – the Funke
Media Group and M. DuMont Schauberg – are located in
NRW. Apart from holding a stake in the leading German
regional newspaper WAZ, Funke’s porAolio also includes
interests in local radio staBons in NRW as well as prinBng
presses. The DuMont Schauberg Media Group publishes
eight daily newspapers, including Express and the Kölner
Stadtanzeiger, as well as the Berliner Zeitung and the
NRW stands out because it is the place with
the greatest diversity of newspapers among
the larger German federal states. 41 daily
papers with a circulaBon of 2.7 million copies
are published here.
Chris<an DuMont Schü=e, Chairman
of the media group DuMont Schauberg
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Funke media group, Essen
Hamburger Morgenpost since 2013. In addiBon, there are
interests in local radio and TV staBons as well as various
digital IT service companies.
Handelsbla5, Witscha"sWoche and Landlust
The HandelsblaC publishing group is the leading media
group for business and financial informaBon in Germany.
The HandelsblaC is the group’s flagship, with a circulaBon
of over 120,000 copies for the largest business and financial
newspaper and the fourth largest daily newspaper in Germany. The publisher’s porAolio includes Wirtscha-sWoche
(circulaBon: 131,600 copies), the market leader among
the business magazines, as well as other renowned specialist
magazines. The Landlust magazine appealed directly to
the zeitgeist of a slower rural life. The magazine from the
Münster-based Landwirtscha-sverlag has established itself
as a permanent fixture in the field of consumer magazines
a-er its phenomenal growth, and its circulaBon of around
one million copies puts it ahead of such market giants as
Der Spiegel or Stern.
41 regional daily newspapers
41 regional daily newspapers in NRW sell 2.4 million copies
each day. Three publishing houses from NRW – the Funke
Media Group, the M. DuMont Schauberg Media Group
and the Ippen Group in Hamm, which also includes the
WesAälische Anzeiger as well as the Munich-based newspapers Merkur and tz – are among the five largest publishers
of daily newspapers in Germany. The NRW publishing houses
with the highest circulaBon are the Funke Media Group
(around 570,000) with the WAZ as Germany’s largest
North Rhine-Westphalia – for German-language
books that means an dense network of bookshops, a large number of fesBvals and readings,
and a large number of insBtuBons which are
vital partners for book publishers: TV and
radio staBons, film producers, newspapers and
magazines, and above all the new web media
and producers.
Helge Malchow, Director of Publishing
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Bastei Lübbe, Cologne
Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf
regional paper, the Rheinische Post (around 291,000),
and the Kölner StadtAnzeiger/Kölnische Rundschau (around
256,000). Moreover, Express (121,000) is a successful,
regional tabloid newspaper on the market in NRW.
E-papers, apps, etc.
The newspaper publishers in NRW also deliver content
to customers via digital channels, whether it is with sophisBcated Internet presences, e-papers, in-house produced
moving images, or innovaBve apps. For example, the
B. Boll Media Group introduced the WhatsApp News as
a free news services for its “Solinger TageblaC”, while the
Lensing Media Group (Ruhr Nachrichten) created the new
free Buzz 09 app for “real BVB fans”. Kalaydo is the online
small ads market for regional daily newspapers in NRW.
Kiepenheuer, Emons, Bastei Lübbe
As well as being home to the successful newspaper publishers, NRW is also the base for a quarter of all German
book publishers. Almost 12,000 book Btles were produced
in NRW in 2014, which translates into a leading posiBon
on a naBonal level. Bastei Lübbe, Kiepenheuer & Witsch,
Emons and DuMont Buchverlag are among the largest of
more than 478 publishing companies in North Rhine-Westphalia, with a combined turnover of more than 3.9 billion
Euros. Bastei Lübbe Verlag, with headquarters in CologneMülheim, is the German naBonal market leader in the
hardcover/ficBon sector thanks to such authors as Dan
Brown and Ken FolleC. With 335 employees an annual
turnover of 107.5 million Euros, the publishing house is
the largest medium-sized family concern in the German
NRW as an industrial locaBon is already
aCracBve because of the infrastructure and
the economic power. But something else makes
it even more appealing from a publisher’s and
media company´s perspecBve: It has a long
history and offers culture. To make it short:
NRW simply can tell good stories.
Thomas Schierack, Chairman
Bastei Lübbe AG
Facts and Figures
> Bertelsmann: Europe’s biggest media group,
with 16.7 billion Euros turnover
> Funke, DuMont Schauberg, Ippen: three of the five largest newspaper
groups in Germany
> Around 2.4 million regional daily newspapers (subscripBons and retail sales)
> WAZ: Germany’s largest regional newspaper
> HandelsblaC: leading business and financial newspaper
> Landlust: Germany’s publishing sensaBon
> lit.Cologne: Europe’s largest reading fesBval
> Drupa: the world’s largest fair for printed media
> 478 book publishers – 3.9 billion Euros turnover: highest density
of publishing houses in Germany
> Bastei Lübbe: Germany’s market leader for hardcover/ficBon
> 846 bookshops, over 300 libraries
> Thalia and Mayersche: the number 1 and 4 among the bookstore chains
> Respected university courses in journalism at Münster and Dortmund
publishing world. Taschen Verlag from Cologne rose to
prominence thanks to its illustrated books on such subjects
as art, architecture, design and photography. Illustrated
coffee table books are also the core business of Peter Hammer
Verlag in Wuppertal and Coppenrath Verlag in Münster.
The Cologne-based Emons Verlag has been a specialist in
regional crime novels and regional literature since 1984.
When it comes to the number of bookstores, NRW clearly
leads the field within Germany with 846, ahead of BadenWürCemberg (591) and Bavaria (567). Germany’s largest
bookstore chain, Thalia, has its headquarters in the
Westphalian town of Hagen. The subsidiary of the Douglas
Holding is the market leader in the retail book trade for
the German-speaking countries with a turnover of around
1 billion Euros (2012) and with a workforce of some 4,000
people and combines the bookseller tradiBon with a varied
digital and online range of services in e-commerce. Aachen
is the headquarters of the Mayersche Buchhandlung chain
which has been in family ownership since its founding in
1817 and currently operates more than 40 outlets. Around
1,000 employees and a turnover of 165 million Euros
make it Germany’s fourth largest chain of bookshops.
drupa and lit.Cologne
The drupa, the “world’s largest trade fair for print and
cross media soluBons”, has been held in Düsseldorf since
1951 and will be staged every three years as from 2016.
It is regarded to be the world's most important show of
achievements in the prinBng and printed media industry,
aCracBng over 1,500 exhibitors from more than 50 countries.
In 2014, a reorientaBon saw a strong focus being placed on
innovaBve future technologies such as funcBonal printing,
printed electronics or 3D prinBng. lit.Cologne has made
reading into a popular event for the past 16 years. The
mulB-award-winning Cologne literature fesBval combines
classic literary readings with theatre and cabaret as well
as discussions, and annually brings the world’s leading authors
to Cologne. In 2015, the 208 individual events aCracted
105,000 visitors, thus establishing. lit.Cologne as the biggest
fesBval of reading in Europe. The area of contemporary
philosophy has been given similar aCenBon by the
phil.Cologne since 2013. <
Handelsbla=,
Düsseldorf
Newspapers
WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine
Westdeutsche Zeitung
WesAalen-BlaC
WesAalenpost
WesAälische Nachrichten
WesAälische Rundschau
WesAälischer Anzeiger
Book publishers
Bastei Lübbe
Buchhandlung Walther König
Bundesanzeiger VerlagsgesellschaBVK Buch Verlag Kempen
Coppenrath-Verlag
Droste Verlag
Dumont Buchverlag
Egmont Verlagsgesellscha-en
Emons Verlag
HandelsblaC Fachmedien
Grafit Verlag
Greven Verlag Köln
Gütersloher Verlagshaus
Verlagsgruppe Random House
Harenberg KommunikaBon
Heel Verlag
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Kölner Universitätsverlag
Peter Hammer Verlag
Rahmel-Verlag
Taschen Verlag
VDI Verlag
Verlag J. P. Bachem
Verlag Kölner Dom
W. Bertelsmann Verlag
Wienand Verlag
Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
Contacts
www.creaBve.nrw.de
www.medien.nrw.de
Publishers > 29
AdverBsing agencies
Adiro
Antwerpes
BBDO
bplusd
Brand Lounge
BuCer
DDB Tribal
Denkwerk
Eggert
Geometry Global Düsseldorf
Gramm Werbeagentur
Grey
Grey Healthcare
Havas Worldwide Düsseldorf
Irlenkäuser
Klautzsch und Grey
KNSK West
McCann Erickson
m/e brand communicaBon
MetaDesign Düsseldorf
Ogilvy
RTS Rieger Team
Saatchi & Saatchi
Sahler
Sapient
Scholz & Friends
Ströer
TBWA
WRWunited
PR agencies
Barbarella
CP/Compartner
CrossrelaBons
Jeschenko
KAIKOM
Ketchum Pleon
Komm.passion
KOOB
Media Concept
muehlhausmoers
PR agentur deutz
Public Vision
Weber Shandwick
Event agencies
Avantgarde
BBDO Live
concept X
De Vries + Partners
Do it!
Domset
face to face
facts+ficBon
gestalt communicaBons
Gorol & Partner
Grass Roots
Hagen Invent
Imagepeople
livewelt
jaeger + haeckerhase
Knör! Media & Events
Lieblingsagentur
mu:d
Stagg & Friends
Team ProMoBon
The Event People
Uniplan
Vogelsänger Event
Vok Dams
Pril flower
Advertising
When it comes to adverBsing and communicaBon, North
Rhine-Westphalia is one of the industry’s centres in Germany. This is where important concerns with large adverBsing and communicaBons budgets are based, including
eight DAX-listed companies such as Bayer, E.ON and Deutsche Telekom. Over 10 billion Euros, around 40% of the
German naBonal investment in adverBsing, are spent in
NRW. The Land of NRW has more than 25,000 employees
registered to pay naBonal insurance contribuBons, who
are working in the adverBsing sector. And almost 10,000
freelancers and companies in the adverBsing market –
agencies, ad designers, communicaBons designers – means
that every fourth company operaBng in this industry in
Germany comes from NRW.
Düsseldorf: adver4sing hub with
highest turnover
Whether it’s Metro, Henkel or C&A: the many successful
industrial companies in NRW represent an aCracBve
customer base for the adverBsing and communicaBons
industries of the federal state capital. With its unique
combinaBon of business, fashion and art, Düsseldorf has
developed a creaBve infrastructure providing the ideal
environment for the adverBsing sector: sound studios, film
producBon companies, model agencies, photographers,
designers, trade fair construcBon companies and printers
offer all the services for successful communicaBons. The
sector is also closely connected to the film and music industries, TV and radio staBons, online providers, and the
fashion and art scene. Over 1,000 creaBves and decisionmakers meet three Bmes a year at the BBDO Directors
We have been based in NRW since 1956. With
good reason: Düsseldorf is one of the leading
German centres of adverBsing with a strong
business environment. And there are numerous
TV and media companies in neighbouring Cologne. The region stands for communicaBon and,
at the same Bme, for a lively art and cultural
scene. All of this aCracts creaBve talent. This is an
environment in which we can work successfully.
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Frank Lotze, CEO
BBDO Germany
Brandt-zwieback
Lounge. Düsseldorf is not only the basBon of such major
network agencies as BBDO, Grey, DDB and TBWA, it is
also home for many medium-sized and small agencies run
by their owners, who try gain an edge over compeBtors
primarily by offering a high quality of service.
BBDO
BBDO Germany – with its headquarters in Düsseldorf –
is Germany’s largest agency group with around 7,900
employees and is part of the publicly listed Omnicom
Group. It was founded in Mühlheim an der Ruhr in 1956
as ¨Team¨ and has been a part of BBDO Worldwide, one
of the world’s most successful network agencies, since
the beginning of the 1970s. Apart from the core BBDO
brand, the German group of companies also includes such
agencies as Interone, Proximity, OMD, Ketchum Pleon,
BaCen & Company, the Peter Schmidt Group design agency
as well as the Sellbytel call center and outsourcing serviceprovider. With its 11 agency brands, BBDO Group Germany
caters for every kind of markeBng discipline in all communicaBons channels and handles clients like BMW, Bayer,
Becks, Dr. Oetker and smart. BBDO is one of the most frequently awarded agency groups on a naBonal and internaBonal level. BBDO Düsseldorf has collaborated with the
University of Neuss to offer the joint Bachelor’s Degree in
MarkeBng and CommunicaBons Management since 2014.
Grey
A part of the internaBonal WPP Group, Grey Deutschland
is one of the Top 3 most successful agencies in Düsseldorf
and employs over 360 staff. OperaBng from Platz der
There is no other town where the interacBon
of creaBvity, lifestyle, internaBonality and business is as good as in Düsseldorf. The regional
capital offers everything that an adverBsing
agency needs in order to be able to work successfully: the openness of the people, a good
media landscape, a wide range of cultural acBviBes and, not to forget, the central locaBon with
an excellent connecBon to the neighbouring
countries and the European markets.
Dickjan Poppema, CEO Grey Deutschland
Facts and Figures
> 10.3 bn Euros investment in adverBsing in NRW
> around 40% of the German adverBsing market
> more than 25,000 employees
> almost 10,000 freelancers and companies
> Düsseldorf is the locaBon with the highest
adverBsing turnover in Germany
> Big players of the adverBsing industry: BBDO, Grey,
Publicis, Ogilvy, DDB Tribal
> Leading German media agencies MediaCom and
OMD
> The largest event agency Vok Dams in Wuppertal
and Uniplan in Cologne
> Germany’s second largest PR agency: Ketchum Pleon
> Cologne as a centre of successful public relaBons
> highly respected training and qualificaBon
insBtuBons
afri cola
Ideen 1 in the NRW regional capital, Grey offers all kinds
of services in the markeBng value chain and has been
responsible for campaigns of such brands as NovarBs,
Panasonic and Volvo. The adverBsing agency also has a
local profile thanks to its creaBve soluBons for Düsseldorf’s
airport and the Düsseldorf “Schauspielhaus” theatre.
ZenithOp4media, Vivaki, Saatchi & Saatchi
ZenithOpBmedia – with its HQ in Düsseldorf – is one of
the world’s leading media networks and part of France’s
Publicis Groupe, the second largest media consultancy
concern worldwide. The Zenith and OpBmedia agencies
advise adverBsers on how to deploy their markeBng budgets as effecBvely as possible. The Group has a presence
in Düsseldorf through other adverBsing service-providers,
including the disBnguished Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency with
such clients as Toyota, Ariel and Vorwerk, the technology
agency Vivaki, and the internal service-provider Re:Sources.
Ogilvy
The Düsseldorf office of the Ogilvy internaBonal ad agency
was launched in 1981 with around 10 employees. Today,
the company is part of the internaBonal WPP Holding and
has seen its workforce grow to around 250 employees in
the city on the Rhine. As an integrated communicaBons
agency, Oglivy offers media planning, PR and diverse
markeBng services in addiBon to classic adverBsing. Ogilvy
Düsseldorf was behind the naBonal and internaBonal
campaigns for such companies as Allianz, Coca-Cola,
Siemens and WWF Germany.
NRW is Germany’s media hub No. 1 and is
characterised by internaBonally operaBng
companies, market-leading TV staBons and
important trade fairs like the dmexco. In addiBon, Düsseldorf is home to the three biggest
media agency networks and the adverBsing
hub with the highest turnover.
Ma=hias Dang, CEO
IP Deutschland
DDB
DDB Düsseldorf, known briefly as DDB Tribal, is part of
the DDB Worldwide internaBonal creaBve agency network which, in turn, is part of the internaBonal Omnicom
Holding. The first DDB office outside of the USA opened
its doors in Düsseldorf in 1962 and has since influenced
the adverBsing scene in NRW and Germany with many
top creaBves. MulB-award-winning creaBve soluBons for
such well-known brands as Volkswagen, AEG/Electrolux
or eBay have been developed right in the centre of the
regional capital.
MediaCom, OMD, Ketchum Pleon,
Vok Dams, Uniplan
It’s not only adverBsing agencies, but also other disciplines
of the communicaBons industry that feel very much at
home in NRW. Five of the ten largest German media
agencies have their headquarters in Düsseldorf, including
the two market leaders MediaCom and OMD. The naBon’s
second largest PR agency Ketchum Pleon is also based in
Düsseldorf. In addiBon, many Cologne-based agencies have
made a name for themselves on a naBonal level in the
field of public relaBons, including Oliver SchroC KommunikaBon, Weber Shandwick and Ergo. Vok Dams has been
one of the largest German event agencies for several years
with a naBonal turnover in fees of 27.5 million Euros in
2014. The third place in the turnover ranking was taken
by Cologne’s Uniplan with 24.8 million Euros. <
Weiße Dame
Media agencies
MediaCom
OMD
MEC
Zenithmedia
OpBmedia
Training
Ecosign Köln
FH Aachen
FH des MiCelstandes Bielefeld
FH Dortmund
FH Düsseldorf
FH Münster
FH SüdwesAalen Soest
Folkwang HS Essen
HS Hamm-Lippstadt
HS Niederrhein
Köln InternaBonal School of Design
Kölner Design Akademie
KreaBvkader Düsseldorf
Macromedia Köln
Mediadesign HS Düsseldorf
Rheinische FH Köln
Universität Bielefeld
Universität Wuppertal
AssociaBons
FAMAB Verband Direkte
Wirtscha-skommunikaBon,
Rheda-Wiedenbrück
BVDW Bundesverband Digitale
Wirtscha-, Düsseldorf
POSMA POS
MarkeBng AssociaBon, Köln
Deutscher MarkeBng-Verband,
Düsseldorf
Networks
BBDO Regielounge
MarkeBng-Club Düsseldorf
Ströer has always been connected with
Cologne. We are experiencing the dynamism
of digitalisaBon here to a considerable degree.
Digital media have strengthened NRW as a
locaBon in a sustainable way and represent
a relevant economic factor for the region.
Contacts
www.creaBve.nrw.de
www.medien.nrw.de
Udo Müller, Founder and CEO
Ströer Media
AdverBsing > 31
Jürgen Domian, 1LIVE-Kult-Talk
Radio
StaBons
1LIVE
WDR 2
WDR 3
WDR 4
WDR 5
Funkhaus Europa
Deutschlandfunk
Deutsche Welle
radio NRW
Antenne AC
Antenne Düsseldorf
Antenne Münster
Antenne Niederrhein
Antenne Unna
Hellweg Radio
NE-WS 89.4
Radio Berg
Radio Bielefeld
Radio Bochum
Radio Bonn/Rhein Sieg
Radio Duisburg
Radio Emscher Lippe
Radio Ennepe Ruhr
Radio ErRadio Essen
Radio Euskirchen
Radio Gütersloh
Radio Herford
Radio Herne
Radio HochsBRadio Kiepenkerl
Radio Köln
Radio K.W.
Radio Leverkusen
Radio Lippe
Radio Lippe Welle Hamm
Radio MK
Radio Mülheim
Radio Neandertal
Radio Oberhausen
Radio RSG
Radio Rur
Radio Sauerland
Radio Siegen
Radio Vest
Radio WAF
Radio WesAalica
Radio WMW
Radio Wuppertal
Radio 90,1 Möchengladbach
Radio 91,2 Dortmund
Welle Niederrhein
107.7 Radio Hagen
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Casper and Wolfgang Niedecken, 1Live Krone 2013
North Rhine-Westphalia is by far Germany’s biggest radio
market – both in the consumpBon as well as on the supply
side. Around 12 million people switch on their radios here
every day. Nowhere is the network of public and private
staBons as dense as in NRW. Three large public radio staBons
– WDR, Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandradio – have been
broadcasBng from NRW for more than 50 years and have
influenced the naBonal radio landscape. Four of Germany’s
ten most popular radio programmes are produced in NRW.
radio NRW and the NRW local radios are the naBonal No.
1 in FM radio with a daily reach of around 5.2 million listeners each weekday. 1LIVE, WDR’s youth channel in Cologne,
is now into its 20th year on the air and is currently Europe’s
most successful youth channel. In addiBon, 1LIVE is the
German radio staBon with the largest reach in the Internet.
WDR
With over 4,300 permanent employees, WDR is the largest
broadcaster in Germany. About a fi-h of the personnel ,
i.e. 935 employees, is responsible for the radio programme.
In total, the six WDR channels are on air for almost 150
hours each day. Around a quarter of this for informaBon
and service programmes; and some 14% of the schedules
are dedicated to the arts and educaBon. With around 8
million listeners tuning in each weekday, the WDR radio
staBons together reach over 50% of the potenBal market.
While 1LIVE is aimed at young people, WDR 2 is the informaBon channel for 25- to 59-year-olds. There is also an
intercultural channel, Funkhaus Europa, with numerous
foreign-language broadcasts. All programmes have extensive mulBmedia web content. The following can be received
CreaBve, internaBonal and diverse – that’s
what NRW is. Every day, it provides material
for stories about outstanding subjects and
people. Industry 4.0 and InnovaBonAlliance,
theBeethoven FesBval and the Ruhrfestspiele –
that’s how the Deutsche Welle reaches the
global decision-makers on a worldwide basis.
Peter Limbourg, Director General
Deutsche Welle
only via digital radio or online: 1LIVE diggi, the children’s
channel KIRAKA, WDR Info, WDR Event for special events,
and WDR VERA with traffic reports.
Deutschlandradio
NaBonal radio is provided by Deutschlandradio under the
auspices of ARD and ZDF. The naBonal and ad-free channels
of Deutschlandfunk and DRadio Wissen are produced in
Cologne, while Deutschlandradio Kultur is broadcast from
Funkhaus Berlin. The staBon is playing a crucial role in the
history of the two Germanies: the listeners in the GDR, in
parBcular, were to be informed about poliB-cal and cultural
developments in the West. Nowadays, Deutschlandfunk
is by far the most widely listened-to informaBon channel
in Germany with a daily reach of 1.6 million listeners. The
arts channel Deutschland-radio reaches 470,000 listeners
each day. Deutschlandradio has consistently focused its
disseminaBon on all the linear and non-linear outputs as
well as live streams and podcasts and an extensive accompanying web offer
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany’s internaBonal broadcaster and has been operaBng on a public-service basis
as a member of the ARD since 1953. Apart from its radio
programmes, DW also broadcasts TV programming and
varied online content to the world in 30 languages from
the headquarters in Bonn and the main studio in Berlin.
Originally established for “the dear compatriots all over
the world” (Theodor Heuss), Deutsche Welle now has
a brief to disseminate German and other viewpoints
Although NRW is now called sector by 1LIVE,
many radio pracBBoners are nonetheless
envious of what we have: quanBty and quality
are not mutually exclusive in NRW. Even large
staBons sBll have place for experiments, and
there are regular slots at 1LIVE for radio
drama, features and readings.
Jochen Rausch, Head of Programming 1LIVE,
Deputy Director Radio, WDR
Facts and Figures
> Germany’s largest radio market
> 45 commercial local staBons with a 24-hour
programme
> Four of the staBons with the biggest naBonal audience
> WDR, Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle
> 8.25 million WDR listeners every weekday
> Germany’s most successful staBons:
NRW’s local radios and radio NRW
> Radio AdverBsing Summit, 1LIVE Krone,
Hörspielpreise, LfM-Bürgermedienpreis,
LfM-Campus-Radio-Preis, LfM-Hörfunkpreis
Sabine Heinrich
throughout the world and promote the dialogue between
cultures as well as internaBonal understanding and tolerance. In total, around 3,000 permanent and freelance
staff from 60 naBons are working to achieve these goals.
118 million people worldwide use content from the
DW-TV, radio or online services at least once a week.
Following a re-posiBoning in recent years, the target
audience is now primarily global decision-makers and
poliBcal opinion leaders.
Domradio and Campus Radio
NRW’s commercial radio celebrates its 25th anniversary
of operaBons in 2015. With 5.2 million listeners tuning
in each weekday, commercial radio in NRW is at the pole
posiBon for the naBonal raBngs. OperaBng from a base
in Oberhausen, radio NRW supplies a framework programme for the 44 local radios in NRW with news, single
features, music, comedy, sound elements through to
whole secBons of the schedules. Radio NRW is organised
according to the two-pillar model, a North Rhine-Westphalian speciality: the separaBon of ediBorial and financial
responsibility should guarantee a high quality in programming. The shareholders of radio NRW are WDR, RTL
Radio Deutschland, and Pressefunk Nordrhein-WesAalen,
which, in turn, has parBcipaBon from the Funke Media
Group, Axel Springer, Dumont Funk und Fernsehen, as
well as 33 other publishers. Diversity in NRW’s local radio
is also achieved by parBcipaBon from the ciBzens: each
local staBon makes airBme available to the ciBzens’radio
(Bürgerfunk) where items produced by ciBzens can
be broadcast.
Evidence of the diverse radio culture in NRW is also shown
by the numerous radio events in the “sector”. Once a year,
the music industry comes together for the 1LIVE Krone,
the largest German radio award. The Film- und MediensB-ung NRW has been supporBng German-language radio
drama since 1994 with bursaries and producBon funding,
the Radio Drama Prize of the War Blind (in cooperaBon
with the Bund der Kriegsblinden Deutschlands e.V.), the
German Prize for Children's Radio Drama as well as the
Radio Drama Forum NRW. Each year sees the Landesanstalt
für Medien NRW (LfM) handing out the LfM Radio Prize,
the LfM CiBzens Media Prize, and the LfM Campus Radio
Award. The Radio AdverBsing Summit in Düsseldorf aCracts
around 500 visitors to a central forum for the dialogue
between the decision-makers of the adverBsing industry
and execuBves from the world of radio. <
radio NRW and the NRW local radios
NRW is a media state with a future – innovaBve, flexible, diverse. As Germany’s most
successful radio programme, NRW local radio
is part of the media locaBon NRW and provides
some important sBmulus for the creaBon of
public opinion.
Udo Becker, CEO
radio NRW
The Archdiocese of Cologne’s domradio reports from the
city centre predominantly on religious, ethical and social
subjects. Kölncampus has now become an indispensable
feature for those connoisseurs of music outside of the
mainstream. There are also campus radios at another 12
universiBres in NRW – from Aachen to Detmold, from Münster/ Steinfurt to Siegen – an unique diversity in Germany.
Radio Drama Prizes, Radio Adver4sing
Summit, 1LIVE Krone
Elke Heidenreich, Buch<pps , WDR 4
StaBons
domradio Köln
Bürgerfunk
Hochschulfunk
Events/awards
Radio AdverBsing Summit
1LIVE Krone
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
Deutscher Kinderhörspielpreis
Hörspielforum NRW
LfM-Hörfunkpreis
LfM-Campus-Radio-Preis
LfM-Bürgermedienpreis
Winners of Hörspielpreis
since 2000
Andreas Ammer/FM Einheit
Christoph Schlingensief
Elfriede Jelinek
Gesine Schmidt
Helgard Haug/Daniel Wetzel
Inge Kurtz/Jürgen Geers
Michaela Melian
Katharina Bihler/Stefan Scheib
Paul Plamper
Robert Schoen/Lorenz Eberle
Schorsch Kamerun
She She Pop
Stefan Weigl
Thilo Reffert
Walter Filz
Contacts
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.medien.nrw.de
www.vlr-nrw.de
www.lfm-nrw.de
NRW creates unique condiBons for local radio:
the people, the mentality, the subjects and
the events. Only those close to the acBon stay
relevant for the listeners and offer them the
right informaBon and entertainment. That’s
precisely what NRW’s local staBons do.
Timo Naumann, Managing Director
Verband Lokaler Rundfunk in NRW e.V.
Radio > 33
Labels/publishers
Century Media Records
Feez UnterhaltungsgesellschaInside Out Music
JazzSick Records
JKP – Jochens Kleine PlaCenfirma
Kompakt
Le Pop Musik
Limited Access Records
MelBng Pot Music
Meyer Records
Normal Records
Roof Music
Selfmade Records
Stockhausen-Verlag
Tumbleweed Records
Unique Records
Wolverine Records
Distributors
Al!ve
Cargo Records
Delta Music
GoodToGo
H’Art Musik
India Media Group
Trade/e-commerce
alphamusic.de
buch.de
bol.de
c-tube
Medion
Metro AG
ZebraluBon
Concert halls/clubs
Esprit Arena Düsseldorf
E-Werk Köln
FZW Dortmund
Gebäude 9
ISS Dome
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
König-Pilsener-Arena Oberhausen
Konzerthaus Dortmund
Lanxess-Arena Köln
Live Music Hall
Luxor Köln
Mitsubishi Electric Hall
Palladium
Philharmonie Essen
Philharmonie Köln
RheinEnergieStadion Köln
Stahlwerk Düsseldorf
Starlight Express Halle Bochum
Tanzbrunnen Köln
Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Turbinenhalle Oberhausen
Underground Köln
VelBns Arena Gelsenkirchen
WesAalenhallen Dortmund
Zakk Düsseldorf
Zeche Bochum
Zeche Carl
Concert promoters
Concert Team NRW
Contra PromoBon
Dirk Becker Entertainment
E. L. Hartz
Konzertbüro Schoneberg
Peter Rieger Konzertagentur
Prime Entertainment
Roland Temme Gruppe
Events
1LIVE Krone
Acht Brücken
c/o pop FesBval
Cologne Music Week
Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Haldern Pop
Kra)werk
Music
Diversity and size of turnover make NRW one of Germany’s
most important music hubs. It is home to around 20% of
all of the industry’s companies, making up almost a third
of the naBon’s music-related turnover with around 2 billion
Euros. The German music market, the third biggest in the
world a-er the USA and Japan, is increasingly moving in the
direcBon of live entertainment, digital business models
like music streaming as well as the licensing of musical
content in other media sectors like film, TV adverBsing
or games (sync). As a “convergence hub” par excellence
with strong players across all types of media, NRW offers
excellent prospects for the future of the music industry.
Great pop history
InternaBonally successful pop arBsts from Rhine and Ruhr
provide the breeding ground for the strong creaBve music
scene in NRW. Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the world’s
most influenBal 20th century composers, is regarded as
the founder of many modern electronic musical styles
such as Techno, House or Electro. Bands like Fehlfarben
and Die Toten Hosen come from Düsseldorf. BAP rocks
successfully in the Cologne dialect of “Kölsch”, Alphaville
from Münster influenced synthie pop, Nena from Hagen
the New German Wave, and the WDR Big Band regularly
performs with the world’s leading jazz arBsts. While Bochum-born Herbert Grönemeyer has been filling stadiums
for decades, audiences are now being wowed by such
contemporary arBsts as Gentleman from Cologne, Casper
from Bielefeld or the newcomers AnnenMayKantereit.
Not to forget that there has also been a lively hard rock
and heavy metal scene in the Rhine and Ruhr region
with such internaBonally known bands as Accept, Doro,
Kreator, Sodom or U.D.O.
The first studio for electronic music in the
world was located in Cologne, and, in 1928, the
Pressa took place, an event for communicaBons technology that laid the foundaBon stone
for today’s media locaBon. This conflicBng
sphere of culture and business sBll makes up
the city’s assets to this day.
Norbert Oberhaus, CEO
c/o pop
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Strong distribu4on and labels
The distribuBon landscape is similarly diverse in NRW, with
some of the most important independent distributors
operaBng from there. The Cologne-based distributor
GoodToGo, for example, is regarded naBonally to be the
largest and most important independent music distributor.
The result of a merger in 2008 between Groove ACack
and Herne’s Rough Trade Records , GoodToGo is now one
of the largest independent distributors in Europe, and has
its logisBcs handled by the Gütersloh-based Bertelsmann
subsidiary Arvato AG. Century Media Records, which has
been part of Sony Music since 2015, is internaBonally one
of the most well-known and successful labels in the heavy
metal genre. Following its takeover by Universal Music.
Other distributors like Cargo in Wuppertal, Al!ve, Kompakt
and A-Musik in Cologne as well as H’Art Musik in Marl and
hundreds of smaller publishers and labels are part of the
landscape and account for nearly a quarter of the business
for all of Germany in this sector.
From Saturn, Musicstore to Sync and C3S
On 1 July 1961, the first Saturn-Markt opened on Hansaring
in Cologne. Today, the company is one of the leading players
in the European consumer electronics retail sector with
around 190 stores in four countries. Cologne’s Musicstore
is one of the world’s largest specialist stores for musical
instruments and equipment. New areas of emphasis and
strategies are developing in NRW alongside classically
generated revenues with music and consumer electronics
by such companies as Essen’s Medion AG. Many innovaBve
business models were e.g. the Cologne-based music streaming service simfy whose clients have since been taken
I was born in Cologne and the city’s electronic
scene provided me with some important influences: like the band Can, for example, Stockhausen’s pupil Holger Czukay, who taught me
how to produce my own composiBons, or Jaki
Liebezeit, my teacher in maCers of instant
composing…
Helmut Zerle=,
musician, composer and producer
Facts and Figures
> 2,400 companies in the music business
> 20% of music companies in Germany
> A third of all music-related turnover in Germany
> Strong creaBve scene
> Ideal locaBon for sync-licensing business
> Leading retail traders for music and consumer
electronics
> Large number of extraordinary venues
> Four state music academies in Cologne, Düsseldorf,
Essen and Detmold, Folkwang InsBtute for Popular
Music in Bochum, German Pop Academy
> c/o pop, 1LIVE Krone, Ruhrtriennale, Haldern Pop,
Juicy Beats, Open Source, New Fall
> German Music Council, AssociaBon of German
Musicians, Cultural Commons CollecBng Society (C3S),
“Jedem Kind ein Instrument” FoundaBon
> InfluenBal figures in pop history: Stockhausen, Can,
Kra-werk, Fehlfarben, BAP, Die Toten Hosen
Die Toten Hosen
over by the French provider Deezer. The successful Cologne
music video plaAorm putpat.tv is now operaBng in the
net under the new name of Ampya. Arriving at a modern
copyright is the goal of the Cultural Commons CollecBng
Society (C3S) in Düsseldorf. The innovaBve project, which
wants to break the GEMA’s monopoly by way of in-house
developed so-ware, is to be launched in 2016. And NRW
also has good prospects of taking on a leading role in the
synchronisaBon (sync) of music for visual content such
as film, TV programmes, adverBsing or video games.
Live entertainment
Alongside the increasing music sales in the Internet, the
German concert and event market represents an important
flourishing segment of the music industry. NRW with its
18 million inhabitants has a parBcular share of this thanks
in large part to its big regional market. Numerous mulBfuncBonal arenas from Cologne to Dortmund with seaBng
for up to 70,000 people provide space for spectacular
concerts – as do converted industrial monuments and
countless halls, philharmonic halls and clubs with that
special atmosphere, all delivering the appropriate ambience for music events of every size and shape. For decades now, major event promoters Peter Rieger Konzertagentur from Cologne or Dirk Becker Entertainment
have been delighBng millions of music fans with tours
by internaBonal stars.
FesBval and concert seasons like the Ruhrtriennale, Summer
Jam, the New Fall FesBval in Düsseldorf, ParookaVille in
Weeze or the Rock Hard FesBval in Gelsenkirchen are
audience highlights in NRW. Moreover, Cologne's internaFor me as a naBve of Cologne, the Rhineland
has always been the cultural humus on which
my own creaBvity has also thrived. The region’s decades-old art and music scene has to
this day never lost any of its myth and internaBonal reputaBon. NRW is on a par here with
New York, London and Berlin.
Wolfgang Voigt, ar<st, music producer,
owner of Kompakt
Bonal c/o pop fesBval together with the associated c/o
pop convenBon business forum provides sBmulus for
the industry each year.
First-class educa4on
NRW demonstrates its excepBonal commitment for the
next generaBon of musical talent with the educaBonal
iniBaBve called “An Instrument for Every Child” which was
launched in 2007. The opportuniBes for further musical
educaBon are also first class, with four state music academies in Cologne, Detmold, Düsseldorf and Essen, the
German outpost of German Pop Academy as well as the
Folkwang InsBtute for Popular Music in Bochum. Bachelor
programmes in Audio ProducBon and Engineering are
offered by the private SAE InsBtute at its campuses in
Cologne and Bochum. <
I feel so at home in Cologne because there’s
internaBonal flair here, but it’s cozy nonetheless. I value the Rhineland’s mentality and the
humour. I like the directness and honesty. It’s
easy to get into conversaBon with people.
Gentleman, musician
I can only hope that the Media State NRW
will soon come to an agreement on how to
protect the rights of authors, as common
decency demands.
Wolfgang Niedecken, BAP
Herbert Grönemeyer
Events
Ambient FesBval
düsseldorf fesBval!
Juicy Beats FesBval
Kunst!Rasen Bonn
Moers FesBval
Open Source FesBval
Rock Hard FesBval
Rock am Ring
Ruhr in Love
Ruhr Reggae Summer
Ruhrtriennale
SoundTrack_Cologne
Summer Jam
SummerStage
Vainstream
Week-End FesBval
ZelAesBval Ruhr
AssociaBons/networks
Bundesprüfstelle für
jugendgefährdende Medien
Deutsche Disc-Jockey OrganisaBon
Klubkomm – Verband Kölner Clubs
und Veranstalter
Deutscher Musikrat
Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband
Gesamtverband Deutscher
Musikfachgeschä-e
media music –
Berufsverband Medienmusik e.V.
SB-ung Jedem Kind ein Instrument
Verband deutscher
Musikschaffender
Verband deutscher Musikschulen
Verband deutscher Tonmeister
Film music
Markus Aust
Dürbeck & Dohmen
MaChias Hornschuh
Stephen Keusch
Carsten Rocker
Rossenbach/van Volxem
Andreas Schäfer
Andreas Schilling
Arno Steffen
Songbureau
Helmut ZerleC
Contacts
www.creaBve.nrw.de
Music > 35
Network expansion, NetCologne
Cable & Satellite
Network operators
Unitymedia
NetCologne
Deutsche Telekom
Vodafone
Equipment suppliers/
service-providers
3M
Ericsson
Toshiba
Mitsubishi
Digitalbox Europe
ASTRO Strobel
KommunikaBonssysteme
Media Broadcast
Further key players
Eutelsat
Deutsche NetzmarkeBng
GesellschaANGA e.V.
Bundesnetzagentur
Contacts
www.ikt.nrw.de
Modern infrastructure is part and parcel of a locaBon’s
parBcular quality. NRW’s is already ahead of all the Länder
in Germany for broadband. Germany has seen compeBBon
between infrastructures ever since Deutsche Telekom had
to sell its TV broadband cable back in 2000. The new cable
providers, who were iniBally only responsible for television,
now sell Internet and telephone connecBons as well as
diverse digital services – the same as the telco providers
who are expanding their networks and aCracBng their
customers with all the modern communicaBons services.
Many players have a stake in this business, and a significant
number of them are based in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Netcologne and DNMG
NRW is the largest cable market in Germany with around
four million connected cable households. About 40% of all
viewers receive their TV programmes via cable – a unique
potenBal for development. This potenBal is not only restricted to the cable industry, but also spills over into many
other economic sectors. Since the cable industry is a key
driving force in the communicaBons and entertainment
markets with its investments in networks and innovaBve products.
NetCologne has established itself as a regional provider
in the economic region of Cologne/Bonn/Aachen. The
company is the number two in NRW and operates its own
state-of-the-art fibre opBc network. With 384,000 telephone
and Internet customers, 224,000 TV and 18,000 mobile
customers as well as 897 employees and a turnover of
259 million Euros in 2014, NetCologne is the most successful
city-carrier in Germany. NetCologne is also a shareholder
in the Deutsche NetzmarkeBng Gesellscha- (DNMG) which
is also based in Cologne. For more than 15 years, the DNMG
has been the largest markeBng organisaBon for operators
of cable TV networks in the German-speaking world,
represenBng more than 170 connected cable network
operators.
Unitymedia, with its headquarters in Cologne, is Germany’s
largest cable network operator based on its turnover and
one of the leading providers in North Rhine-Westphalia,
Hesse and Baden-WürCemberg with around 2,500 employees.
With its high-speed network, Unitymedia enables private
and corporate clients to have access to varied communicaBons services and an extensive range of entertainment.
With the introducBon of aCracBve Internet and telephone
services, the cable network operators came into direct
compeBBon with the established telco companies, of
which the two largest, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone,
are also based in NRW. The chief player – acBve in both
sectors – is Deutsche Telekom. On the Entertain plaAorm,
it uses its own IPTV network to offer around six million
Germany’s largest cable market
Unitymedia
NRW is the home of important network operators. The modern infrastructures are used by
companies and consumers alike. Thus, we have
an excellent environment as a system provider
for cable television networks and digital headend technology .
Herbert Strobel, Managing Director
ASTRO Strobel Kommunika<onssysteme
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The subsidiary of the US concern Liberty Media has around
7 million connected customers, of which more than half
are in NRW, and posted turnover of over 2 billion Euros
in 2014. Unitymedia supplies television, radio and various
digital TV services via the Horizon TV and media plaAorm,
while the mulB-screen service Horizon Go does the same
on mobile end devices.
Telekom Entertain and Vodafone TV
North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the most important media and economic regions in Europe.
We are proud to contribute to the conBnuing
success of its businesses and ciBzens with a
first-class broadband infrastructure and quality
products.
Lutz Schüler, CEO
Unitymedia Group
Facts and Figures
> Germany’s largest cable market with around
four million connected households
> NRW: pioneer in network digitalisaBon
> Germany’s largest cable network operator
according to turnover: Unitymedia with over
2 billion Euros
> Largest city-carrier in Germany: NetCologne
with 259 million Euros turnover
> Deutsche Telekom – most successful IPTV supplier
> ANGA COM – Europe’s largest broadband event
with 17,000 professional delegates
customers in Germany and Europe a comprehensive
range of TV programming with around 250 TV channels,
access to TV mediatheques, and the mobile TV service
“Entertain to go” for mobile divices Vodafone has also
become heavily involved in the TV business, especially
since its takeover of the cable network operator Kabel
Deutschland in 2014. True to the moCo of “Always in the
best network wherever you are”, the Düsseldorf concern
supplies its customers, depending on regional availability,
with the services of the modern fibre opBc network or DSL
products, either way, an extensive range of TV services:
free or pay, linear or on-demand, at home or mobile.
Eutelsat
With over 17 million households in Germany, satellite
recepBon remains the biggest compeBtor for cable television today, especially in rural regions. Eutelsat, the world’s
third largest satellite operator and number one in the
region of Europe, Middle East and Africa with a fleet of 38
satellites, is based in Cologne. Alongside the direct supply
of satellite households with media, data and telecommunicaBons services, Eutelsat also offers its feeding and markeBng services to cable network operators and cinemas.
A5rac4ve content from NRW
ACracBve content is increasingly proving to be a crucial
compeBBve factor in this compeBBon between infrastructures. NRW has an ideal environment with the numerous
content-providers based here in the region: the RTL Group,
WDR as well as many successful webvideo players and
marketers in NRW. But the region is not only home to
content suppliers: this is also the base for technical serviceThe cable, broadband and TV industry is booming, and ANGA Cable at Cologne’s Messegelände offers the perfect market place. Europe’s
leading conference and fair for cable, broadband and satellite registered record numbers
of exhibitors and visitors again this year.
Thomas Braun, President
ANGA Verband Deutscher Kabelnetzbetreiber
providers and device manufacturers like 3M, Ericsson,
Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent and Media Broadcast.
M7 Deutschland supplies “ready to use” packages of
programming and wholesale products.
ANGA and ANGA COM
The industry’s central interest representaBon also has its
headquarters in NRW. The Cologne-based associaBon ANGA
represents the interests of the broadband industry. The
190 member companies include major network operators
like Vodafone, Unitymedia, Tele Columbus or Net Cologne
and a large number of medium-sized providers as well as
leading systems manufacturers. Each year, the associaBon
organises the ANGA COM, Europe’s biggest broadband
event, at the koelnmesse trade fair – in cooperaBon with
the Medienforum NRW since 2014. 17,000 professional
delegates and more than 450 exhibitors were yet further
proof in Cologne in 2015 of the industry’s conBnuing boom.
Digital future in NRW
NRW is fit for the future: more than 75% of households
are already equipped to watch digital TV. With its Next
GeneraBon network with a high proporBon of fibre opBcs
and a mulBmedia plaAorm, Unitymedia is one of the pioneers of the development in NRW. Through conBnuous
modernisaBon the company provides highspeed internet
access to almost every connected household. The cable
operator is thus already fulfilling the broadband goals set
by the Federal Government. With its own state-of-the-art
fibre opBc network and the wide range of services, NetCologne is also in tune with the latest market trends and
offers capacity for further development. <
Germany’s pulse of communicaBons beats in
NRW. Such a density of telecommunicaBon companies can be found nowhere else. As one of the
largest regional providers NetCologne makes
sure that the people in and around Cologne are
provided with powerful networks. Around 900
employees are taking care of connecBng companies and people with the world every day.
Jost Hermanns, CEO
NETCOLOGNE
Cable & Satellite > 37
Huawei, Düsseldorf
Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
Telekommunication
Companies
Blackberry
Deutsche Telekom
E-Plus
Ericsson
Huawai
LG Electronics
NEC Düsseldorf
NetCologne
Nokia
QSC
Radiodata
Unitymedia
Vodafone
ZTE
Service-providers
010012 Telecom
01051 Telecom
arvato infoscore
bn:t Blatzheim
Callax Telecom
Cedros
Congstar
ecotel communicaBon
ePocket SoluBons
Eutelsat Deutschland
IN-telegence
LANstream
Simfonics
TELE2
Telemark
Verizon
Versatel
XConnect
ZyXEL
Networks/associaBons
Mobile MarkeBng AssociaBon
Mobile Monday Community
Contacts
www.ikt.nrw.de
Strong networks are the lifelines of the digital future, and
the heart of telecommunicaBons in Germany beats in NRW.
The federal state is one of the largest European markets
for informaBon and communicaBons technology as well
as telecommunicaBons services: around 18 million inhabitants and more than one million businesses are catered
for here. Thus, the range of suppliers and service-providers
is correspondingly. Around 39,000 people are employed
in the industry, that’s 25% of all those working in this
sector in Germany. Germany’s two largest telecommunicaBons providers, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, are
based in NRW. Moreover, nearly 90% of the German market for mobile communicaBons is covered by NRW-based
companies, including three of the four German mobile operators: Telekom in Bonn and Vodafone and E-Plus in Düsseldorf.
Deutsche Telekom
151 million mobile phone customers, over 31 million landlines, and more than 17 million broadband connecBons
as well as 228,000 employees around the world, and a
turnover of 63 billion Euros: Deutsche Telekom, with its
headquarters in Bonn, is one of the world’s leading telecommunicaBons concerns, currently at sixth place among
the largest companies operaBng worldwide in this sector.
The company came into being in 1995 as a result of the
privaBsaBon of the state-run Deutsche Bundespost and
its divisions for telecommunicaBons and telephones, and
now offers products and services in the fields of landline
networks, mobile communicaBons, Internet and TV for
private customers as well as providing ICT soluBons for
Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society
with infrastructure. We are also a reliable companion in the digital world. Both privately and
professionally. AnyBme and anywhere. Simplifying and enriching people’s lives – that is our
mission. NRW is the home from where we take
on this responsibility – also in partnership with
the media.
Timotheus Hö=ges, CEO
Deutsche Telekom
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large and commercial customers – in 50 countries around
the globe. Telekom provides also around 6 million customers
in Germany and Europe with an extensive TV offer via its
own IPTV network on the Entertain plaAorm.
Vodafone
With 45 million customers, 14,500 employees and a turnover of 11 billion Euros, Vodafone Germany is one of the
largest and state-of-the-art telecommunicaBons providers
in Europe. As an innovaBve Düsseldorf-based technology
and services company, Vodafone Germany offers mobile
communicaBons and landlines as well as Internet and
television – and is the only company to do so via mobile,
DSL and cable technology. The Düsseldorfers also offer
corporate clients a broad ICT porAolio, safeguarding
company networks and communicaBon, having machines
networked and storing data for companies in the German
cloud. Vodafone has around 450 million mobile phone customers and 12 million landline customers worldwide, and is
thus the world’s third largest globally acBve mobile phone
provider a-er China Mobile and Verizon. In 2014, Vodafone
took over Kabel Deutschland, the largest German cable
operator based on the number of households served
(8.3 million), and now also offers cable television and
fast broadband cable.
E-Plus
The story of E-Plus began in 1993 with three NRW heavyweights: the main shareholders of the E-Plus consorBum,
who successfully applied for a mobile phone licence, were
the telco subsidiaries of VEBA, RWE and Thyssen. DüsselNRW stands for robust innovaBon and
investment. We at Vodafone find an ideal
environment here to develop fast networks
and future-oriented products - for the move
into the gigabit society and the sustainable
compeBBveness of Germany as a
business hub.
Dr. Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO
Vodafone Deutschland
E-Plus headquarter, Düsseldorf
dorf-based E-Plus is now the number three in the German
mobile phone market. The brands of the E-Plus Group
include E-Plus, Base, Simyo, Ay Yildiz and blau Mobilfunk.
The E-Plus Group has been part of the Spanish telecommunicaBons group Telefónica since 2014. With almost
48 million customer connecBons (incl. Telefónica), the
company is one of the three leading integrated telecommunicaBons providers in Germany.
Interna4onally leading telco service-providers:
Ericsson, Huawai, ZTE, BlackBerry
Thanks to the large number of presBgious global concerns,
NRW has evolved into a hub with an internaBonal appeal.
The Swedish market leader Ericsson, for example, has had
its headquarters in Düsseldorf since 1955, and the Finnish
network service-provider Nokia Networks also has a branch
locally. The Chinese giants Huawei and ZTE, who together
dominate a quarter of the European market for telco equipment, have also set up shop in Düsseldorf, with Huawei
even having its European headquarters here. Apart from
such big names, it is mainly the many small and mediumsized companies who are establishing themselves as top
economic performers and ensuring that telecommunicaBons is the industry with the largest turnover in NRW’s
media and communicaBons sector.
New compe44on:
Unitymedia, QSC, NetCologne
The large range of regional and naBonal cable network and
satellite operators also contributes to the boom in the
telecommunicaBons market in NRW. They are increasingly
NRW, and Düsseldorf in parBcular, offers
everything that telecommunicaBons providers
need: a perfect infrastructure, the biggest telecommunicaBons cluster and a large catchment area. That is why people call Düsseldorf
“Mobile City”. Our partners seek our proximity
by opening branches here and are cooperaBng
with us to create 4th generaBon mobile communicaBons.
Facts and Figures
> One of the largest European markets
> around 39,000 employees in telecommunicaBons
> Sector with highest turnover in the media and
CommunicaBons industries
> over 205,000 employees in the ICT industry
> Three out of four German mobile network
operaBons: Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, E-Plus
> Vodafone: third largest global mobile
communicaBons provider
> Almost 90 per cent of the German mobile
communicaBons market
> wide range of regional and internaBonal
cable operators
> Eight Fraunhofer InsBtutes specialising in ICT
Vodafone, Düsseldorf
coming into compeBBon with the tradiBonal “telcos” by
offering their own telephone and Internet services – and,
as is well known, this is all good for business. An important
player in this new compeBBon is Unitymedia in Cologne,
the largest cable network operator in Germany according
to turnover (over 2 billion Euros). The subsidiary of the US
media group Liberty Global now supplies over 7 million
customers with broadband cable services, primarily in
North Rhine-Westphalia. Unity-media KabelBW provides
television and radio as well as diverse digital TV services
via its Horizon TV and media plaAorm and to mobile end
devices via the Horizon Go mulB-screen service. NetCologne
has established itself as a regional telecommunicaBons
company in the economic region of Cologne/Bonn/
Aachen. The ace up the sleeve is having its own 23,000
kilometre-long fibre network which is one of the most
modern in all of Europe. NetCologne also offers the whole
range of modern communicaBons technology – landline
telephones, mobile phones, domain and data services as
well as cable television. The company is the most successful city carrier in Germany with 384,000 telephone and Internet customers, 224,000 TV and 18,000 mobile customers,
897 employees and a turnover of 259 million Euros in 2014.
Cologne-based QSC sees itself as a digiBser for small and
medium-sized companies in Germany. A-er numerous
takeovers, the stock exchange-listed company is one of
the few providers who can offer the whole range of IT
and telco services along the complete value chain – from
the data centre right through to the workplace. QSC AG
has around 1,600 employees and posted a turnover of
431 million Euros in 2014. <
With Düsseldorf as a mobile capital and a
strong, lively network of companies, NRW provides an innovaBve power which is unique in
the European telecommunicaBons industry.
Stephan Schneider, CEO
Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf e.V.
Thorsten Dirks, CEO
E-Plus
TelekommunicaBon > 39
Workshop Peter Indergand, KHM Cologne
Education
UniversiBes with mediaspecific courses
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Fern-Universität Hagen
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf
RWTH Aachen
Rheinische FriedrichWilhelms-Universität Bonn
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
TU Dortmund
Universität Bielefeld
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universität Paderborn
Universität Siegen
Universität zu Köln
WesA. Wilhelms-Univ. Münster
Technical colleges
Agricola zu Bochum
Hochschule Rhein Waal
FH Aachen
FH Bielefeld
FH des MiCelstands Bielefeld
FH Dortmund
FH Düsseldorf
FH Gelsenkirchen
FH Köln
FH Münster
FH SüdwesAalen Soest
InternaBonale FH
Bad Honnef-Bonn
Rheinische FH Köln
Technische FH Georg
WesAälische Hochschule
UniversiBes/academies
BiTS Business and InformaBon
Technology School Iserlohn
Cologne Business School Köln
EMBA Medienakademie
Folkwang Universität der Künste
HS Bochum
HS Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
HS Fresenius für Wirtscha- und
Medien Köln
HS für Musik Detmold
HS für Musik und Tanz Köln
HS Hamm-Lippstadt
HS Niederrhein Krefeld
HS OstwesAalen-Lippe Lemgo
ifs internaBonale filmschule köln
InternaBonal School of
Management Dortmund
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NRW is one of the most aCracBve training hubs for media
and creaBve professions in Germany. Apart from having
a diverse higher educaBon landscape, the region is as an
economically powerful metropolitan region and well-connected media hub offering the young generaBon excellent
opportuniBes for gathering pracBcal experience or finding
a quick entrée into professional life. A nigh complete range
of courses is offered throughout the region by 18 universiBes, 37 colleges, 13 art and music colleges as well as seven
church and five administraBve colleges – a situaBon that
is correspondingly appreciated: the winter 2015 term saw
over 743,000 students aCending courses, the highest number
ever to have enrolled at North Rhine-Westphalian higher
educaBon insBtuBons.
The opportuniBes for studying media-related subjects are
also impressive: NRW has around 230 courses to choose
from, offering the whole gamut from editorial and arBsBc
professions through to commercial and technical aspects.
In addiBon, there are almost 30 skilled trades offered at
vocaBonal colleges and many commiCed training insBtuBons to facilitate the entrée into the media industry, as
well as numerous well-established and specialised further
educaBon programmes. A user-friendly overview is provided by www.medienkarriere.nrw.de, the federal state
of NRW’s online magazine and informaBon portal about
media professions and career opportuniBes in NRW. The
condiBons are therefore also ideal for locally-based media
companies to find skilled young talents. And young start-ups
can count on support from numerous funding programmes
a-er they have completed their training.
ProducBon companies from cinema to games,
many TV broadcasters and a wide range of
educaBonal and further training opportuniBes:
NRW provides the ideal environment for those
studying film and media – both during their
courses and a-erwards.
Simone Stewens, CEO
ifs interna<onale filmschule köln
Film and audiovisual media
Two of the seven most important German film academies
are based in NRW, with their graduates regularly appearing
at major film fesBvals with their works. The internaBonallyoriented Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Kunsthochschule
für Medien Köln, KHM) is Germany’s first arts academy
for audiovisual media. It offers a unique training concept
which combines the teaching areas from film and television,
art and media sciences into its Media Arts honours degree.
Founded in 2000 on the iniBaBve of the NRW federal state
government and the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW,
Cologne’s internaBonal film school (internaBonale filmschule köln, ifs) offers in cooperaBon with the TH Köln
different Bachelor degrees with such majors as Screenplay,
DirecBng, CreaBve Producing, Cinematography, EdiBng,
Sound & Vision and Digital Film Arts and three internaBonal
Masters on Serial Storytelling as well as Digital NarraBves.
Master’s in Film & Sound have been offered at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund (Dortmund) since 2014 alongside the BA Course in this field.
Interdisciplinary and mul4media studies
An important feature of NRW’s rich educaBonal landscape
is the interdisciplinary approach taken by the courses on
offer. The KHM’s basic course, for example, is founded on
the interdisciplinary principle, while the department of
academic research focuses on areas which wouldn’t be
found anywhere else on this scale, such as Experimental
IT or Theory and Design of Hypermedia. The new exMedia
module at the KHM brings design, coding, space, sound,
animaBon and games together under one roof. The ifs was
NRW has achieved a unique posiBon in the
game landscape. And also through outstanding
training programmes. The Cologne Game Lab
of Cologne’s Technical University with its nine
professors and soon 250 Bachelor and Master’s
students is unparalleled in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Director
Cologne Game Lab of TH Köln
ifs interna<onale filmschule Köln
also quick to expand its porAolio through media interdisciplinary courses such as the Master’s on Digital NarraBves.
The Cologne Game Lab also works closely in co-operaBon
with the ifs as an insBtute of the TH Köln, offering the
Master in Game Development and Research (since 2010)
and the BA Digital Games (since 2014) in addiBon to
pursuing research on non-linear narraBve structures.
Interdisciplinary co-operaBon between the arts has always
been a fundamental principle of the famous Folkwang
University of the Arts (Folkwang Universität der Künste)
in Essen. Since 1927, Folkwang has been one of the most
respected educaBonal establishments for music, theatre,
dance, design and academic studies. The Intermedia
course at the University of Cologne is interdisciplinary,
pracBcal and project-oriented. A six-term BA on the interface between media culture, design and educaBon has
been on offer since 2014.
Design, IT and jounalism
The adverBsing industry in NRW also benefits from the
variety and concentraBon of renowned art and media colleges, with the presBgious design courses offered in Cologne,
Düsseldorf, Münster, Aachen, Wuppertal and Essen at the
fore. In addiBon, there are two dozen academies in NRW
offering around 40 courses for design alone. One of the
most popular subjects in NRW is informaBon technology
(IT): in 2014, over 17,000 students decided to enroll in an
IT course in NRW, some 8% more than in the previous
year – the best prerequisites for the region’s prospering
IT and telecommunicaBons industries. It is parBcularly in
these fields that NRW has the biggest concentraBon of
NRW is a region where some of Europe’s most
outstanding challenges are concentrated:
migraBon, structural change, urban development, and, not least, the creaBve industries.
As a result, it provides a parBcularly sBmulaBng
environment for arBsBc training.
Prof. Kurt Mehnert, Dean
of Folkwang Universität der Künste
Facts and Figures
> More than 240 media-specific study courses
> Almost 30 skilled trades at over 50 vocaBonal colleges
> Interdisciplinary links between training opportuniBes
> Diverse iniBaBves to address skills shortage
> IT and TK professions: most dense higher educaBon landscape
in Germany
> Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), ifs internaBonale
filmschule köln, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Folkwang Universität
der Künste, RTL Journalistenschule and others
> Scholarship programmes: Mediengründerzentrum NRW,
Gerd Ruge Bursary, Wim Wenders Scholarship, and others
higher educaBon and research insBtuBons in Germany,
with such outstanding examples as the Horst Görtz InsBtute
at the Ruhr University Bochum – one of the internaBonal
top addresses for IT security. The picture is completed by
the acclaimed journalism courses in Münster and Dortmund,
the naBonally unique Bachelor of Engineering Image and
Sound at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf,
the TV educaBonal channel nrwision run by the Technical
University Dortmund’s InsBtute of Journalism as well as
the four state music colleges, the acclaimed insBtutes for
media studies and culture at the universiBes of Cologne
and Bochum, and not to forget the numerous private
media-related courses.
Scholarships, funding and compe44ons
InformaBon centres on training in media professions were
established with the seDng up of the AIM CoordinaBonCentre in Cologne and the www.medienkarriere.nrw.de
online portal in order to offer the next generaBon the
best possible chances for starBng a career. In addiBon,
the federal state prepares the ground for young talents
via its various scholarship and support programmes. The
Film- und MediensBfung supports selected graduaBon
films by film students and collaborates with the Wim
Wenders FoundaBon on awarding scholarships for the
promoBon of innovaBve cinemaBc language. Kurzundschön by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) is
an internaBonal compeBBon for students in the field
of audiovisual media. Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs
wanBng to establish start-ups can apply to the Mediengründerzentrum NRW in Cologne or submit their project
to the CreateMedia.NRW leading market compeBBon. <
The competence and creaBvity of those working in the media in NRW, the experBse and
cooperaBve willingness of the state’s diverse
educaBonal and further training insBtuBons,
and the successful media companies based
here: all of this provides the RTL School of Journalism with an opBmal network in which we
can all cooperate so as to offer qualificaBons
with a future.
Peter Kloeppel, Director
RTL School of Journalism
UniversiBes/academies
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Kunstakademie Münster
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Macromedia HS für
Medien und KommunikaBon Köln
Mediadesign – HS für
Design und InformaBk Düsseldorf
Robert-Schumann-HS Düsseldorf
Advanced training insBtuBons
bm – gesellscha- für bildung in
medienberufen Köln
Cologne Game Lab
Deutsche Pop Akademie Köln
Film AcBng School Cologne
Filmhaus Bielefeld
FilmwerkstaC Düsseldorf
FilmwerkstaC Münster
Games Factory Ruhr
ifs internaBonale filmschule köln
Kölner Filmhaus
Kölner Journalistenschule
für PoliBk und WirtschaMedienakademie Ruhr
mibeg-InsBtut Medien Köln
Musikhochschule der
Universität Münster
netSTART
Offene Jazz Haus Schule
Rheinische Musikschule
RTL Journalistenschule
SAE InsBtute Bochum und Köln
WAK - Westdeutsche Akademie
für KommunikaBon
WAM - Die Medienakademie
Dortmund
Wirtscha-sakademie am Ring Köln
Advice centres
AIM KoordinaBonsCentrum für
Ausbildung in Medienberufen Köln
Medienfest.NRW
Contacts
www.aim-mia.de
www.mbem.nrw.de
www.medienkompetenzatlas-nrw.de
www.schulministerium.nrw.de
www.wissenscha-.nrw.de
EducaBon > 41
Startplatz, Cologne and Düsseldorf
Start-ups
Start-ups
9elements.com
Auxmoney
azubister.net
baby-markt.de
BringMeBack
Clickworker
ConBlla
Coupies
dawawas.de
Dressed Monkeys
enBa.de
HierBeiDir
Kaasa health
Kalaydo.de
loudplaces.com
musicplayr.com
Nurogames
Quintly
Pixum
plazaa.de
quintly.com
Railslove
reputami.com
Seitwert.de
squeaker.net
Supr.com
Tamyca
Trivago
United Equity
userlike.com
Widjet
Incubators/venture capital
1stMover
Business Angels Netzwerk
Deutschland
Capnamic Ventures
Friendventure
High-Tech Gründerfonds
netstart Ventures
Rheinfabrik
Startplatz
T Ventures
Ufa Lab NRW
NRW as start-up stronghold
As an economically strong metropolitan region, NRW
has the upper hand thanks to a strong mix of industry,
comerce and services - an outstanding environment for
start-ups. In addiBon, since it is the federal state with
the largest populaBon, NRW has a special aCracBon parBcularly for start-ups in the B2C sector. The good infrastructure, numerous support programmes as well as the
high regard for innovaBon play their part and are also the
basis for one of the highest rates of start-ups in Germany.
This development is also acBvely supported by the RepresentaBve for Digital Economy Affairs in NRW, who is located at NRW’s Ministry for Economic Affairs. The funding
of start-ups and networks aims to facilitate synergies between classical industry and the innovaBve start-ups and
make NRW the No. 1 digital hub in Germany.
The self-confident scene along the River Rhine with its
extensive start-up and event culture has already spawned
numerous renowned companies - from the ad portal
Kalaydo in Cologne through the hotel price comparison
site Trivago from Düsseldorf and the Bonn-based document
management service doo to Bochum’s job start-up Employour. Although scarcely noBced by the media, there are
also some very successful young B2B entrepreneurs in
NRW, including ParStream from Cologne (Red Herring
Europe 2013 Top 100 Companies) and Cologne’s Cleverbridge AG, one of the world’s leading e-commerce serviceproviders. The Games Factory Ruhr in Mülheim an der
Ruhr serves as a new home for around 20 companies and
freelancers from the games industry.
NRW has many creaBve thinkers and pracBBoners for the Digital Economy, and a cooperaBon
between start-ups, SMEs and industry will make
it possible to master the challenges for the
digital transformaBon necessary in the western
part of Germany.
Prof. Dr. Tobias Kollmann, Head of
NRW Digital Economy Office
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Coworking Space GarageBilk, Düsseldorf
Investors and incubators
Incubators for start-ups are booming, start-ups find everything they need here: flexible office, infrastructure, fast
internet, conference rooms as well as a support structure
for business, tax and legal issues. Apart from publicly funded incubators, former start-ups, venture capital firms or
large media and publishing houses are now increasingly
the ones that are launching new start-up and technology
centres. The incubator Startplatz in Cologne und Düsseldorf
has established itself in the scene above all as a co-working
space and venue for start-up events and offers start-up
bursaries for teams from the region. SoluBon Space, operaBng from a central locaBon close to Cologne Cathedral,
also offers a complete infrastructure for start-ups. The
necessary capital as well as knowhow for companies in
the start-up phase are the core services offered by the
High-Tech Gründerfonds in Bonn. Early stage financing
and advice about new digital business is provided by the
start-up incubator 1stMover in Düsseldorf. Meanwhile,
projects from the field of digital media are a specialisaBon
of the Capnamic Ventures venture capital fund as well
as DvH Ventures in Cologne, both of them companies of
large media and publishing groups.
Universi4es and academies
In Bmes of skills shortages in many future industries,
NRW can count on numerous presBgious talent labs. As
the largest German university for technical courses with
more than 42,000 students, the Rheinisch-WesAälische
Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) supplies important specialists for the digital economy. The University
of Cologne, the third largest in Germany and a centre of
excellence, is also a good breeding ground for well-educaNRW offers start-ups financial funding possibiliBes at every stage as well as advisors with internaBonal experience, top universiBes, favourable
co-working programmes and very good transport connecBons. The proximity to investors and
a broad client base from all industrial sectors is
unique in Germany. At the same Bme, a beCer
chance for internaBonalisaBon is offered here
in the heart of Europe.
Thomas Grota, Investment Director T-Venture
Facts and Figures
> one of the highest rates of start-ups in Germany
> affordable co-working spaces: SoluBon Space, Startplatz,
Gewächshaus, Garage Bilk
> the largest number of professorships for Entrepreneurship
naBonwide
> strong public support: RepresentaBve for Digital Economy
Affairs in NRW at the Ministry for Economic Affairs
> top hub of the digital transformaBon: all of the industries
present locally
> very good customer potenBal: strong mix of industry,
commerce and services
> Kalaydo, Trivago, Clickworker, Auxmoney and others.
> large independent start-up scene, numerous start-up
networks
> B2B with strong players: ParStream, Cleverbridge
> booming incubators: Startplatz, 1stMover, UFA LAB
> events: European Pirate Summit, Rheinland Pitch, Start-up
Breakfast, dmexco, Advance, InteracBve Cologne
UFA LAB Cologne
ted young talent and fresh ideas, and has the resources
to operate its own Gateway start-up service. Another port
of call for university graduates interested in start-ups is
Cologne’s university start-up network hgnc mit with an
extensive range of consulBng and qualificaBon services.
Moreover, from a naBonal perspecBve, NRW is at the
forefront with 17 professorships in Entrepreneurship –
and more to come. The region of Bonn/Rhein-Sieg is parBcularly aCracBve as a region for innovaBon and science,
with a close-knit network of universiBes, six Fraunhofer
InsBtutes and three Max Planck InsBtutes.
Conferences, networks, pitchings
InformaBon about the players and the numerous events
in NRW’s digital industry is available at the NRW Start-Ups
online plaAorm along with the websites of the Mediencluster
NRW and Digital Economy Affairs in NRW. A significant
proporBon of the events are dedicated to the co-working
scene. Cologne’s Cluster House provided the launchpad
for the annual European Pirate Summit and this has developed in just a few years into one of the leading start-up
events in Europe. Since 2013, the incubator Startplatz has
regularly hosted the Rheinland Pitch where young start-ups
from the Rhineland region can present their business ideas.
Other events like dmexco, the leading trade fair for digital
markeBng & adverBsement, or events of the Advance group
are proof of the hub’s liveliness and diversity. Moreover,
the posiBve development of the InteracBve Cologne digital
fesBval shows how much the scene in NRW collaborates
in order to create something special: in 2015, around 4,000
parBcipants from the media, creaBve and digital industries
let themselves be inspired by the varied entertainment
and networking programme. <
In 2000, Pixum was one of the Internet pioneers in the region. Today, NRW and my city of
“Kölle” are a mecca for start-ups and Internet
entrepreneurs from all over the world with the
best opportuniBes for inspiring networking –
whether it’s at the Medienforum, the European Pirate Summit or the acBviBes of Web
de Cologne.
Daniel A=allah, founder & CEO
Pixum
We consciously decided in favour of Cologne
when establishing STARTPLATZ as there is a
developed startup culture here, which we
can also help to shape even further. With the
Rhineland Pitch, we have also devised a pitching
format which is specially targeted at founders
from all over NRW. The startup scene is
flourishing and we are happy to be part of it.
Ma=hias Gräf, Managing Director Startplatz
With the UFA Lab NRW in Cologne, we are
puDng our strategy into pracBce of parBcipaBng
in the digital transformaBon of the media landscape. In this respect, NRW is an extremely
inspiring region for us with establishedmedia
companies and young founders and many
young start-ups.
Jens-Uwe Bornemann, Senior Vice President
Digital UFA
We were sBll students when we set up our
company in the creaBve quarter of CologneEhrenfeld and have grown together with the
hacker scene in the Rhine area. NRW is home
to one of Europe’s most acBve start-up ecosystems, and Cologne offered us the infrastructure to become today’s Railslove GmbH –
and there is more to come...
Jan Kus, Managing Director
Railslove
From lone wolf to service-provider – from
service-provider to start-up: we have already
experienced many ups and downs, but have
always been accompanied by a solidarity: among
founders, technological companies, and among
people in Cologne.
GarageBilk, Düsseldorf
Funding/advice
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
Gründerzentrum KulturwirtschaAachen
Hochschulgründernetz Cologne
Mediencluster NRW
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
NRW.Bank
startercenter.nrw.de
Events
Advance
BewegtbildstammBsch
beyond tellerrand
Digitalk
dmexco
European Pirate Summit
FuckUpNight
InteracBve Cologne
Rheinland-Pitch
Startup Con
Networks
Eco Verband
Gründungsnetzwerk Düsseldorf
Hochschulgründernetz Cologne
Kölner Internet Union
Neues Unternehmertum Rheinland
Startup Dorf
UFA LAB NRW
Web de Cologne
Co-working/hubs
Bermudahaus
Clusterhaus
Colabor
Cowoco in der BoCmühle
Coworking Space GarageBilk
denkubator
Gewächshaus
K LAN
SoluBon Space
Startplatz
UFA LAB NRW
Unperfekthaus
Arne Horn, Founder/CEO
Maple Apps
Start-ups > 43
Funding & Financing
Funding insBtuBons
CreaBve Europe Desk NRW
Film Commission NRW
Film- und MediensB-ung NRW
Mediencluster NRW
NRW.Bank
NRW.Invest
Awards, grants and scholarships
Förderpreis für junge Künstlerinnen
und Künstler des Landes NRW
Förderpreise der Vodafone
SB-ung für Forschung
Games Factory Ruhr
Gründerpreis NRW
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
netSTART
Contacts
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.medien.nrw.de
www.mediengruenderzentrum.de
www.creaBve-europe-desk.de
www.wimwenderssB-ung.de
www.creaBve.nrw.de
www.ikt.nrw.de
www.nrwbank.de
www.nrwinvest.com
www.aim-mia.de
www.land.nrw/de/landesregierung/ministerpraesidenBn/
staatskanzlei
www.mbem.nrw.de
www.mweimh.nrw.de
www.m*jks.nrw.de
Founded in 1991, the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW is
Germany’s financially strongest regional funder with an
average funding volume of 35 million Euros. Apart from
supporBng cinema, television and innovaBve media content, its remit also includes locaBon markeBng and development. Taking over the Mediencluster NRW in 2011, it
has now become an integrated funding insBtuBon and the
central point of contact for media in NRW.
Apart from its involvement in the most important funding
insBtuBons, the federal state of NRW also supports the
media industry with compeBBons for the development of
innovaBve technologies and business models for the digital media of the future. The interests of NRW’s regional
government in media are represented on a poliBcal level
by the Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media
(MBEM), reporBng to the Prime-Minister. The Department
of Culture at the Ministry for Children, Youth, Culture and
Sport (MFKJKS) supports a wide range of media and cultural projects that can benefit fesBvals as well as the region’s
film houses and media workshops. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (MWEIMH) funds the creaBve
industry as well as the informaBon and communicaBons
technologies with their associated clusters. The Economic
Affairs Minister also oversees the RepresentaBve for Digital Economy Affairs in NRW (DWNRW), who supports the
federal state’s digital innovaBve capacity through the
funding of start-ups and networks.
Funding by the Film- und MediensB-ung is focused on
films for cinema and television, parBcularly internaBonal
co-producBons. Support is awarded at all stages of producBon and exploitaBon: from story development through
screenplay and producBon to distribuBon and sales. Moreover, support is allocated to cinemas and radio plays. The
FilmsB-ung has taken account of current media developments by creaBng addiBonal funding instruments such as
the 2011 funding programme for the development of innovaBve audiovisual projects in the field of games, internet
and mobile formats as well as the development of innovaBve TV formats in 2012. In 2014, Germany’s first bursary for
the development of web videos was awarded in cooperaBon with the European Web Video Academy. The same
year saw the launching of a programme to support graduaBon films from film academies in NRW. And last but not
least, the Wim Wenders FoundaBon joined forces with
the Film- und MediensB-ung to award scholarships in
order to promote innovaBve cinemaBc language from 2014.
The Land of NRW
Whether cinema or TV, web video or games –
the media industry is aCracBve, above all, to
young people. The basis for a good start in
professional life is therefore a sound and
sustainable qualificaBon. Young creaBves find
the best prerequisites for this in NRW, and the
same goes for founders and start-ups who are
offered a first-class environment by Germany’s
strongest economic hub to conquer new markets.
Marc Jan Eumann, State Secretary
for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media
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Film- und Mediens4"ung NRW
NRW is one of Europe’s leading media regions. In order to
consolidate this posiBon and also prepare the local players
specifically for the digital shi-, the federal state supports
the industry through numerous funding programmes and
insBtuBons. NRW is not only the federal state with the
financially strongest regional funding programme – its
commitment to companies and projects of the Digital
Economy, start-ups and young entrepreneurs ensures
that there are excellent opportuniBes for development.
Funding by the Film- und Mediens4"ung
The development of both film and media culture and the film and media industry in NRW is
our mission, the funding of film, television and
innovaBve media content is our core competence. With the media region’s sustainability in
mind, we help create a network of companies
and players and promote NRW as the leading
hub for film and media, communicaBon and
convergence in the middle of Europe.
Petra Müller, CEO
Film- und Mediens<)ung NRW
Facts and Figures
> Film- und MediensB-ung NRW: Germany’s financially
strongest regional funder with 35 million Euros
> RepresentaBve for Digital Economy Affairs in NRW:
42 million Euros unBl 2020
> Pilot funding programme for digital content: games,
Internet, mobile formats
> Pilot funding programme for innovaBve TV formats
> Pilot funding programme for graduaBon films
> CreaBve Europe Desk: EU funding programmes
> Bursaries for the development of web videos,
documentaries and cinemaBc language
> CreateMedia.NRW: funding compeBBon
> PromoBonal awards and bursaries for start-ups and
young entrepreneurs
> NRW.Bank as a partner of the creaBve industries:
micro and start-up loans
> NRW.Invest: support for investors
Film Commission NRW
The Film Commission has operated under the auspices of
the Film- und MediensB-ung since 1999 as the port of
call for naBonal and internaBonal producers wanBng to
shoot in NRW. It provides support for scouBng locaBons
in the region, applying for shooBng permits or establishing
contacts to service-providers, and operates the locaBon
database -www.locaBonnrw.de – together with Film CiBes
NRW and the locaBon scouts.
Crea4ve Europe Desk
In addiBon, Film- und MediensB-ung has been home to
the CreaBve Europe Desk NRW since 1992. CreaBve Europe
is the funding programme of the European Union for
culture and the audiovisual sector. Funding is awarded to,
among other things, cinema/television in development,
producBon and distribuBon, and interacBve media. The
CreaBve Europe Desk NRW offers comprehensive advice
for the preparaBon of funding applicaBons and network
support for European cooperaBon.
CreateMedia.NRW funding compe44on
The federal state of NRW’s leading market compeBBon
for the media and creaBve industries has existed under
the name of Create.Media.NRW since 2014. The innovaBon
programme has access to EU funds to support sustainable
technologies and business models in the Internet as well
as low-tech or social innovaBons that could become the
breeding ground for further innovaBon.
North Rhine-Westphalia is the leading media
locaBon in Germany. Companies will find outstanding locaBon factors here: superb public
transport links and infrastructure, a highlydefined research scene, a qualified workforce,
and a unique quality of life.
Petra Wassner, CEO
NRW.Invest
Mediencluster NRW
The Mediencluster NRW, a subsidiary of the Film- und
MediensB-ung NRW in Düsseldorf, is the point of contact
for the digital media scene in NRW. Start-ups, young creaBves and companies are offered a comprehensive range
of services and informaBon on such issues as funding and
financing possibiliBes. It creates visibility for the industry
at trade fairs at home and abroad and acBvely contributes
to the networking and further development of NRW as a
digital media hub.
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
The Cologne-based Mediengründerzentrum NRW supports
start-ups and young companies in the areas of cinema,
TV, new media and games. The one-year bursary programme, which includes consulBng and networking for
the bursary-holders in addiBon to the financial support,
has an annual intake of 12 young companies.
NRW.BANK and NRW.Invest
As the development bank for NRW, the NRW.BANK also
offers demand-driven financing products for the media
and creaBve industries. Among other things, start-ups can
be supported with micro and start-up loans such as the
creaBve credit.
As the federal state’s own business development corporaBon, NRW.INVEST markets NRW as an investment hub and
supports foreign and German companies in its capacity as
a one stop agency in their investment projects or plans to
move to NRW. <
The diverse media landscape in NRW offers
ideal parameters to young media companies
for their entrepreneurial development. The
Mediengründerzentrum NRW supports,
advises and provides networking opportuniBes
– for innovaBon and sustainable connecBons
to the region.
Joachim Ortmanns, CEO
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
Funding > 45
Cologne Conference
Events
Awards
1LIVE Krone
Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen
Deutscher Comedypreis
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
Deutscher Kamerapreis
Deutscher Webvideopreis
Grimme-Preis
Grimme Online Award
Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
Médaille Charlemagne
red dot award
Film fesBvals
Bielefelder Kinderfilmfest
Blicke – FilmfesBval
des Ruhrgebiets
Cinepänz
Cologne Conference
doxs!
Duisburger Filmwoche
Exposed – FesBval für erste Filme
Fantasy Filmfest
Film Cologne
Filmfest Düsseldorf
FilmfesBval Münster
Filmplus – Forum für FilmschniC
und Montagekunst
Film- und VideoweCbewerb
Bielefeld
InternaBonale Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen
InternaBonale Stummfilmtage
Bonn
InternaBonales FrauenfilmfesBval
Dortmund|Köln
InternaBonales Kinderfilmfest
Bonn
KinderFilmFest Münster
Kinderfilmtage Ruhrgebiet
KinderKinoFest Düsseldorf
Kinofest Lünen
kurzundschön
LandesfilmfesBval
der Region Düsseldorf
SoundTrack_Cologne
Unlimited KurzfilmfesBval
Videonale Bonn
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As a centrally located metropolitan region in the heart of
Europe and leading media hub, North Rhine-Westphalia
provides the ideal environment for trade fairs, conferences
and fesBvals with internaBonal appeal. The top events
in NRW include major occasions aCracBng audiences of
millions such as the Bambi ceremony in Düsseldorf’s CCD
Congress Center and the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in
Düsseldorf’s Esprit Arena, as well as smaller events for
select circles like the Charlemagne Medal for European
Media, which is awarded to important media personaliBes
in Aachen each year. Future-oriented events like the
InteracBve Cologne digital fesBval are characterisBc for
the creaBvity and progressive nature of NRW’s industries.
The 2015 ediBon of InteracBve Cologne aCracted around
4,000 delegates in Cologne to its innovaBve plaAorm on
future issues from various areas of society.
Medienforum NRW, film autumn and
industry gatherings
Now in its 27th year, the Medienforum NRW was held
once again with the broadband event ANGA COM in 2015.
This collaboraBon sees NRW’s most important forums for
media infrastructures as well as content and media policy
working more closely – something in the interest of all
market players given the increasing media convergence. In
the annual calendar, November, in parBcular, is dominated
by cinema with more than 15 fesBvals, film seasons and
award ceremonies – now presented under the label of
Film Autumn NRW. The Film and Cinema Conference of
the Film- und MediensB-ung has developed here into a
significant forum for the film industry. Numerous other
industry gatherings throughout the rest of the year bring
decision-makers and creaBves together from all areas of
NRW’s ciBes are as diverse as the landscape.
But one thing unites the people of this region:
curiosity about all things new. That is all I can
ask for.
Werner Köhler, CEO
lit.Cologne
the media and creaBve industries in NRW – such as the
Film-Messe Köln, the DW Global Media Forum, the c/o pop,
the Grimme Online Award, the German Camera Award,
the Entertainment Masterclass, the Factual Entertainment
Summit and the InternaBonal Emmy Semi-Final Judgings.
Diverse fes4val scene: Cologne, Oberhausen,
Dortmund, Duisburg, Lünen
A unique diversity has parBcularly developed in NRW in
the area of film fesBvals. With 61 ediBons already under
its belt, the InternaBonal Short Film FesBval Oberhausen
is not only the fesBval with the longest tradiBon in NRW,
but is also regarded as the oldest and one of the world’s
most important short film fesBvals. In 1962, the famous
Oberhausen Manifesto was issued here, declaring “Papa’s
Cinema” to be dead and fundamentally re-defining German post-war cinema. The Dortmund/Cologne InternaBonal Women’s Film FesBval is also globally one of the most
important iniBaBves in its specific area. From important
industry forums on television culture (Cologne Conference), film ediBng (Filmplus in Cologne) and film scores
(SoundTrack_Cologne) to fesBvals focused on Germanlanguage documentaries (Duisburg Film Week), video art
(Videonale Bonn), silent cinema (InternaBonal Silent Film
FesBval Bonn) and German cinema (Kinofest Lünen), as
well as film fesBvals in Münster, Düsseldorf or in the Ruhr
region – there’s nowhere else in Germany that the range
of events is as broad as in NRW.
lit.Cologne and comedy fes4val
lit.Cologne has been making reading into an event since
2000 and has meanwhile established into the biggest reading fesBval in Europe. The Cologne-based literature fesBval
The media city of Cologne and the world’s
biggest games fair are an ideal combinaBon.
gamescom sets the trends in an industry with
an exciBng future and conBnues to expand.
Gerald Böse, chairman of the board
Koelnmesse
German Comedy Award
has expanded its programme outside of classic readings
to include formats from theatre and cabaret, and brings
some of the world’s leading writers to Cologne each year.
In 2015, 105,000 visitors aCended the 208 individual events.
An offshoot, the phil.Cologne, has been organised on similar
lines to showcase contemporary philosophy since 2013.
And another literature event, the world literature fesBval
PoeBca, was launched at the University of Cologne in 2015.
Literature and transformaBon in media are put in the
spotlight by the University of Cologne’s poeBcs guest
lectureship TransLit in various event formats. The whole
internaBonal scene meets up each year for Cologne’s InternaBonal Comedy FesBval, with 2015 being the 25th
ediBon. The fesBval is the most important comedy event
in Germany and is regarded as a springboard for German
comedians. The fesBval’s anniversary ediBon aCracted
36,000 visitors to Cologne and once again underscored
Cologne’s status as the German comedy capital.
gamescom, GDC Europe, ANGA COM, dmexco
Let the Games begin! was heard in August 2015 when
gamescom opened in the koelnmesse for the eighth Bme.
More than 345,000 visitors from 96 countries, including
over 33,000 professional delegates, and over 800 exhibitors yet again made gamescom the world’s largest trade
fair for interacBve entertainment for both consumers and
professionals. The Game Developers Conference Europe
(GDC’Eu) opens its doors ahead of gamescom, and is
Europe’s largest professional event for games developers,
designers, producers and decision-makers with more than
2,200 industry professionals aCending. In addiBon, the
world’s leading market for photo and imaging, photokina
(185,000 visitors in 2014), is held in the koelnmesse every
The media landscape in NRW is extremely lively and diverse. It is easy to make
contacts to colleagues and create networks.
As Germany’s only women’s film fesBval,
the IFFF Dortmund | Cologne feels very
much at home in this region.
Silke Johanna Räbiger, Director Interna<onal
Women’s Film Fes<val Dortmund|Cologne
Facts and Figures
> leading fairs, conferences and professional events
> ANGA COM, gamescom, dmexco, drupa, photokina
> No. 1 locaBon in the world for trade fairs: more
than 6 million visitors at over 100 leading trade fairs
> diverse fesBval landscape: around 30 film fesBvals,
Film autumn NRW
> lit.Cologne with 105,000 visitors – Europe’s largest
reading fesBval
> Medienforum NRW, InteracBve Cologne, Global
Media Forum, GDC Europe, Advance
> German Television Award, Grimme Award, 1Live
Krone, Grimme Online Award, German Comedy
Award, red dot award, German Camera Award,
German Web Video Award, German Developers
Award, Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
two years as are the annual ANGA COM, Europe’s leading
professional event for cable, broadband and satellite, and
dmexco, one of the leading internaBonal trade fairs for
igital markeBng and adverBsing. With Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia is the
world’s No. 1 locaBon for trade fairs. Over 100 internaBonal leading fairs aCract around six million visitors to
NRW each year.
German Television Award, Grimme Award,
Camera Award, Web Video Award,
Developers Award
The German Television Award – presented by WDR/ARD,
ZDF, RTL and Sat.1 since 1999 – was reorganised in 2015.
But NRW will remain as the venue: the most important
German TV accolade will conBnue to be awarded in Germany’s leading TV region and be held in 2016 as a New
Year get-together for the TV industry in Düsseldorf’s
Rheinterrassen. The Grimme Award, the other important
seal of approval for German TV culture, is also presented
in NRW each year. TV programmes of arBsBc and journalisBc excellence have been recognised by the Grimme
InsBtute in Marl since 1964. The German Camera Award
in Cologne, whose affliates include ZDF, WDR, SWR and
BR, annually honours top achievements in cinematography
and ediBng for cinema and television. The German Web
Video Award has established itself as an event highlight
in Düsseldorf. The awards are given to videos that were
produced for the Internet. In 2014, the German Developers
Award – which annually honours Germany’s most creaBve
games developers – moved from Düsseldorf to Cologne. <
For more than 20 years now, the Cologne
Conference has provided an internaBonal perspecBve and crossmedia discussion of current
developments in the world of TV, film and
Internet to the already well-posiBoned media
locaBon NRW.
Mar<na Richter, Director
of the Cologne Conference
German Webvideo Award
Music events
1LIVE Krone
Acht Brücken Musik für Köln
c/o pop
Cologne Music Week
Haldern Pop
Juicy Beats FesBval
Mayday
Rock am Ring
Rock im PoC
Ruhr in Love
Ruhrtriennale
SoundTrack_Cologne
Summer Jam
SummerStage
Fairs
ANGA COM
Art Cologne
Art.Fair
dmexco
drupa
gamescom
photokina
Other events
Advance
Breitband-Forum Köln NRW
Deutsche Welle Global Media
Forum
eco Internet Award
Emmy Judgings
Entertainment Master Class
European Design Award 2014
Eyes & Ears Conference
Factual Entertainment Summit
Filmschauplätze
Film- und Kinokongress
GDC Europe
Int. KölnComedy FesBval
InteracBve Cologne
Kinoprogrammpreis
Kölner Liste
lit.Cologne
Marken-Award Düsseldorf
Medienforum NRW
M2M Summit
Radio AdverBsing Summit
Regielounge
Web de Cologne
Calendar of events
www.films4"ung.de
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Contacts
State Chancellery NRW, Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media in the Federal State of NRW
Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense, Minister
for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media,
Head of State Chancellery
StadCor 1 | 40219 Düsseldorf
Telephone + 49-211-837-161 0
Persönlicher Referent: Bahar Yassini-Carr
Pressesprecherin: Nina Heil
Dr. Marc Jan Eumann
State Secretary
for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media
Telephone + 49-211-837-151 3
Telephone +49-030-275 75-170 (Berlin)
The promoBon of North Rhine-Westphalia as a media locaBon is a departmental task of the
Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media, Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense. Among other
things, media policy covers the development of media law, media industry funding and locaBon
development and accompanying the digitalisaBon of broadcasBng.
Film funding, especially with respect to educaBon and training in the media industry, is a further
focus of media policy, as is the promoBng of media competence among the state’s ciBzens. As
a central event for the media industry, the annual Medienforum NRW in Cologne is supported
by the state. Minister Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense and his State Secretary Dr. Marc Jan Eumann
are supported in meeBng their departmental responsibiliBes by the media department in the
State Chancellery.
Dr. Benedikt Berg-Walz
Head of SecBon Media Industries
Am Fürstenwall 21 | 40219 Düsseldorf
Telephone + 49-211-837 117 3
[email protected]
www.mbem.nrw.de/medien/
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Garrelt Duin
Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry
Berger Allee 25 | 40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-617 72 204
Press officer: MaChias Kietzmann
Claudia Nussbauer
Head of SecBon CreaBve Industries
Berger Allee 25 | 40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-617 72 290
[email protected]
www.wirtscha-.nrw.de
Crea4ve.NRW – Crea4ve industries cluster
www.creaBve.nrw.de
IKT.NRW – ICT cluster
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Wolff
Clustermanager
Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Str. 2-4 | 47475 Kamp-LinAort
Telephone +49-231-975056 0
[email protected]
www.ikt.nrw.de
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The name says it all: the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry formulates the basic
principles of economic policy, sets the agenda for regional economic and structural policy, and provides the parameters for industry, commerce, cra-s, trade and services to operate. Moreover, it is
responsible for the energy industry, nuclear power and mining. We want to aCract creaBve minds
for industry, services and science – and to have those people at our side, who can contribute
through their work to a NRW that is strong and ready for the future.
As a forward-looking industry funding programme which also views internal and external markeBng as one of its key tasks, the cluster management makes a valuable contribuBon to the
consolidaBon and development of the region. The combinaBon of economic strength and
creaBve industries is intended to aCract the best minds and help emerging companies in the
field. The cluster management concentrates on the art market, adverBsing industry, design
industry, fashion design, music business and book publishing.
The IKT.NRW cluster is the focus of informaBon and communicaBon for all players in the growing
field of ICT in North Rhine-Westphalia. Goals pursued by the IKT.NRW cluster include the early idenBficaBon and further development of exisBng strengths, potenBal for synergies and trends in the ICT
industry. IKT.NRW helps with networking between partners involved in the various fields of ICT or
using cross-secBonal technologies, and champions the acBve promoBon of innovaBve processes.
Film- und Mediens4"ung NRW GmbH
Petra Müller
CEO
Telephone +49-211-930 50 11
petramueller@filmsB-ung.de
ChrisBna Bentlage
Head of Film Funding
Telephone +49-211-930 50 20
chrisBnabentlage@filmsB-ung.de
Sabine Bull
Head of MarkeBng
Telephone +49-211-930 50 17
sabinebull@filmsB-ung.de
Katharina Blum
Head of Conferences and Events
Telephone +49-211-930 50 48
katharinablum@filmsB-ung.de
Tanja Güß
Head of CommunicaBons
Telephone +49-211-930 50 23
tanjaguess@filmsB-ung.de
Film und Medien
SB-ung NRW GmbH
Kaistraße 14
40221 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49- 211- 930 500
info@filmsB-ung.de
www.filmsB-ung.de
Founded in 1991 and with an annual funding budget of 35 million Euros the Film- und MediensB-ung NRW is the financially strongest regional film funding insBtuBon in Germany. Among
its shareholders are WDR and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as ZDF, RTL
and the state media authority, the Landesanstalt für Medien. The goal of the foundaBon is to
promote film and media culture as well as the film and media industry in the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia.
The Film- und MediensB-ung NRW is the central contact point for media in NRW. It provides
funding for films for cinema and television in all stages of producBon and exploitaBon: from
story and project development through producBon to distribuBon and sales. In addiBon, there
is support for cinemas. In 2011, Film- und MediensB-ung NRW also became an integrated
funding body for film and media and, a-er the takeover of Mediencluster NRW GmbH, opened
up to the funding of innovaBve media content. Apart from funding measures, the FilmsB-ung’s
brief also includes the markeBng and development of the region NRW.
Within its responsibility for film and media in the federal state, the FilmsB-ung NRW also
holds interests in numerous insBtuBons and companies: Mediencluster NRW, ifs internaBonale
filmschule köln, Mediengründerzentrum NRW, Grimme-InsBtut and German Films.
Heike Meyer-Döring
Head of CreaBve Europe Desk NRW
Telephone +49-211-930 50 14
[email protected]
Mediencluster NRW GmbH
Till Hardy
Consultant
Kaistraße 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211- 930 50 42
[email protected]
Mediengründerzentrum NRW GmbH
Joachim Ortmanns
CEO
Schanzenstr. 36 | 51063 Köln
Telephone +49-221- 611 07 48
[email protected]
www.av-gruenderzentrum.de
The Mediencluster NRW is the regional contact point for the digital media and start-up scene in
the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and located in Dusseldorf. They connect, consult and inform
about funding and financing, and look a-er companies during the process of locaBng, founding
and expanding their business models.
The Mediencluster create visibility for the digital content industries at home and abroad, thereby
helping to develop the media region in general. Their innovaBve network embraces large and
small companies, naBonal and internaBonal players, media-related service providers, universiBes
and research insBtuBons as well as funding and financing partners.
Launched in May 2006, the Mediengruenderzentrum NRW is aimed at start-ups and young
companies from the media industry. Budding entrepreneurs are supported by accompanying
consultaBon and the awarding of grants. Thanks to the close cooperaBon with NRW’s media
and communicaBons industry and targeted know-how transfer, the Mediengruenderzentrum
prepares young professionals for the future.
Contacts > 49
Contacts
NRW.Bank
Caroline Gesatzki
Head of Press/Internal CommunicaBons
Kavalleriestraße 22 | 40213 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-917 411 847
[email protected]
www.nrwbank.de
NRW.INVEST GmbH
The NRW.BANK, the state development bank, offers medium-sized film and television producers
financing products for the realizaBon of film and TV producBons. Those producers whose work
features a strong reference to NRW are able to profit from aCracBve financing schemes which are
refinanced via the capital market.
Petra Wassner
CEO
Völklinger Str. 4 | 40219 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-13000 0
[email protected]
www.nrwinvest.com
As the state’s own business funding agency, NRW.INVEST markets North Rhine-Westphalia as
a locaBon for investment and supports foreign and German companies in investment projects
or when establishing themselves in NRW. This one-stop agency for investors guides companies
through the enBre process of establishing themselves in the federal state, giving advice on tax
and legal issues as well as providing informaBon about economic structures and industry clusters.
Dr. Christoph von der Heiden
CEO Industry
Publicity work, economics
IHK OstwesAalen zu Bielefeld
Elsa-Brändström-Straße 1-3 | 33602 Bielefeld
Telephone +49-521-554 220
[email protected] | www.bielefeld.ihk.de
IHK NRW - Die Industrie- und
Handelskammern
in Nordrhein-WesAalen e.V.
Marienstrasse 8 | 40212 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-36702 0
[email protected]
www.ihk-nrw.de
IHK NRW
Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Wes3alen (lfm)
Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier
Director
Zollhof 2 | 40221 Düsseldorf
Telephone +49-211-770 07-165
[email protected]
www.lfm-nrw.de
Dr. Peter Widlok
Head of Publicity
Telephone +49-211-770 07-141
[email protected]
50
At the state level, the 16 chambers of industry and commerce
in North Rhine-Westphalia have amalgamated into the IHK
NRW (Industrie- und Handelskammer NRW) in order to assert
the interests of the commercial economy in state poliBcs.
The IHK advises and supports those seDng up in business,
including within the creaBve industries, and searches for
innovaBve financing soluBons.
The lfm is responsible for private radio and television. It decides upon the licensing of broadcasters, monitors and accompanies developments in the media through research acBviBes as
well as by granBng awards such as the LfM-Hörfunkpreis for outstanding journalisBc achievements in private radio. Further areas of responsibility are the monitoring of Internet sites
where the owner of the domain is based in NRW, and the promoBon of media competence.
Media representa4ves of the ci4es
> Stadt Aachen
Fachbereich Presse und
MarkeBng
Harald Beckers
Haus Löwenstein
Markt 39
52062 Aachen
Phone +49-241-432-13 11
harald.beckers@
mail.aachen.de
> Wirtscha)sförderung
Arnsberg
Ulrike Richtscheid
Rathausplatz 2
59759 Arnsberg
Phone +49-2932-201 222 1
[email protected]
> Bielefeld Marke<ng
Elke Kringel
Willy-Brandt-Platz 2
33602 Bielefeld
Phone +49-521-516 779
elke.kringel@
bielefeld-markeBng.de
> Stadt Bochum
Herbert Schmitz
Willy-Brandt-Platz 2-6
44777 Bochum
Phone +49-234-910 358 1
[email protected]
> Stabsstelle Veranstaltungskoordina<on Stadthaus Bonn
Berliner Platz 2
53103 Bonn
Phone +49-228-775 555
[email protected]
> Stadt Dortmund
Hans-Werner Rixe
Friedensplatz 3
44122 Dortmund
Phone +49-231-502 581 4
[email protected]
> Gesellscha) für
Wirtscha)sförderung
Duisburg mbH
Susanne Kirches
Dr.-Hamacher-Straße 49
47051 Duisburg
Phone +40-203-363 935 1
[email protected]
> Kreis Düren
Josef Kreutzer
Bismarckstr. 16
52351 Düren
Phone +49-2421-222 383
pressestelle@
kreis-dueren.de
> Stadt Düsseldorf
Theresa Winkels
Marktplatz 1-2
40213 Düsseldorf
Phone +49-211-899 305 6
theresa.winkels@
stadt.duesseldorf.de
> Essen Marke<ng GmbH
Anke Borm
Rathenaustrasse 2/
Theatergasse
45127 Essen
Phone +49-201-887 204 5
[email protected]
> Fröndenberg an der Ruhr
Bahnhofstraße 2
58730 Fröndenberg/Ruhr
Phone +49-2373-976 224
[email protected]
> pro Wirtscha) GT GmbH
Julia Peschke
Herzebrocker Straße 140
33334 Gütersloh
Phone +49-5241-851 086
julia.peschke@
pro-wirtscha--gt.de
> Stadt Hamm
Katja Johannpeter
Werler Straße 3
59065 Hamm
Phone +49-2381-173 484
johannpeter@
stadt.hamm.de
> Pro Herford
Stadtmarke<ng GmbH
Manfred Bischoff
Goebenstraße 3-7
32052 Herford
Phone +49-221-189 150
[email protected]
> Stadt Herne
JuCa Daniel
Rathaus
Rathausplatz
44626 Herne
Phone +49-2323-16-224 9
Phone +49-2323-16-258 3
[email protected]
> Stadt Hürth
Claudia Dahmann
Christa Derigs
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 40
50354 Hürth
Phone +49-2233-531 80
[email protected]
[email protected]
> Köln
Stabsstelle Medien- und
Internetwirtscha)
Roland Berger
Stadthaus Deutz –
Westgebäude
Willy-Brandt-Platz 2
50679 Köln
Phone +49-221-221-245 71
Roland.berger@
stadt-koeln.de
Stabsstelle Medien- und
Internetwirtscha)
Andreas Füser
Stadthaus Deutz –
Westgebäude
Willy-Brandt-Platz 2
50679 Köln
Phone +49-221-221-246 61
andreas.fueser@
stadt-koeln.de
> Mülheim an der Ruhr
Volker Wiebels
Ruhrstr. 1
45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Phone +49-208-455 135 0
Volker.Wiebels@
stadt-mh.de
> Filmservice Münster.Land
Nicola Ebel
Klemensstraße 10
48143 Münster
Phone +49-251-492 138 0
[email protected]
> WFMG Wirtscha)sförderung Mönchengladbach
GmbH
Pascal Hermanns
Lüpertzender Straße 6
41061 Mönchengladbach
Phone +49-2161-823 798 9
[email protected]
> Stadt Ne=etalWirtscha) und Marke<ng
Christoph Kamps
Doerkesplatz 11
41334 NeCetal
Phone +49-2153-898 800 2
christoph.kamps@
neCetal.de
> KulturStadtLev
Kulturbüro
Anke Holgersson
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen
Phone +49-214-406 4170
anke.holgersson@
kulturstadtlev.de
> Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Robert Abts
Oberstraße 91
41460 Neuss
Phone +49-2131-928 750 0
robert.abts@
wfg-rhein-kreis-neuss.de
> Kreis Me=mann
Marion Strack
Düsseldorferstraße 26
40822 MeCmann
Phone +49-2104-992 030
kulturamt@
kreis-meCmann.de
> Stadt Rees
Ludger Beltermann
Markt 1
46459 Rees
Phone +49-2851-511 76
ludger.beltermann@
stadt-rees.de
> Stadt Lünen
Simone KöCer
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
44532 Lünen
Phone +49-2306-104 150 1
simone.koeCer.02@
luenen.de
> Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
Sabine Ohnesorge
Portastraße 13
32423 Minden
Phone +49-571-807-221 30
s.ohnesorge@
minden-luebbecke.de
> Tourismus und Marke<ng
Oberhausen GmbH
Helmut Kawohl
Essener Str. 51
46047 Oberhausen
Phone +49-208-824 573 3
helmut.kawohl@
tmo.oberhausen.de
> Wirtscha)sförderung
Rhein-Er) GmbH
Andrea Barisic
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
50126 Bergheim
Phone +49-2271-994 99-11
[email protected]
> Wfg Wirtscha)sförderung
Kreis Soest GmbH
Sonja Peck
Villa Plange
Sigefridwall 20
59494 Soest
Phone +49-2921-30-226 1
[email protected]
> Stadt Viersen
Axel Greuvers
Heimbachstr. 12
41747 Viersen
Phone +49-2162-101 463
[email protected]
> Stadt Wiehl
Angelika Stückemann
Zentrale KoordinaBon
Bahnhofstr. 1
51674 Wiehl
Phone +49-2262-992 55
[email protected]
> Wuppertal
Lutz Ahr
c/o Bergische
Entwicklungsagentur GmbH
Kölner Str. 8
42651 Solingen
Phone +49-212-881 606 70
[email protected]
Wuppertal Marke<ng GmbH
Simone Neutert
Friedrich-Engels-Allee 83
42285 Wuppertal
Phone +49-202-563 283 9
[email protected]
Contacts > 51
Look Who's Back
Imprint
Imprint
Publisher
Film und Medien
SB-ung NRW GmbH
Kaistraße 14
40221 Düsseldorf
Phone +49- 211- 930 500
Telefax +49- 211- 930 505
info@filmsB-ung.de
www.filmsB-ung.de
© Film und Medien
SB-ung NRW GmbH,
December 2015
Editorial Team
Sabine Bull (Editor-in-Chief)
Jan Lingemann
Loraine Lenz
Design and Layout
Design: Anna B. Design
Layout und Satz:
Layout and SeDng:
Stephanie Cremer
bfg-cremer.de
Transla<on
MarBn Blaney
Print
Labude. corporate products
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Thank you
We thank all the contributors
from the media state of
North Rhine-Westphalia who
provided a quotaBon and
thus assisted in the creaBon
of this brochure.
Special Thanks to
Ralph Christoph, Maria
Grohme-Eschweiler, Stefanie
Hadding, Mirco Hecker,
Doris Hatzinger, Alica
Kirchner, Jörg Laumann,
Monika Moses-Schick,
Lena Schütz-Kraan,
Anne Schulz, Petra Vohn,
Stefanie Waschk, Torsten
Zarges, Oliver Baumgarten
Photos
from le- to right
Cover1
ZDF/Jens Oellermann
Cover 2
NFP, UFA Cinema/photo:
Stephan Rabold
p. 3
Concorde
p. 4
Staatskanzlei
Nordrhein-WesAalen/
Uta Wagner
p. 5
Film und MediensB-ung
NRW/Heike
Herbertz
p. 6, 7
Kölntourismus, Düsseldorf
MarkeBng & Tourismus
GmbH, Mark Ansorg/
Dortmund, Schütze/
Rodemann/BildarchivMonheim, Bertelsmann
SE & Co. KGaA, Deutsche
Telekom, RTL, WDR/
Herby Sachs
p. 8, 9
RTL, Funke Mediengruppe,
Bertelsmann, Deutsche
Telekom AG, WDR,
Land NRW / M. Hermenau,
MWEIMH NRW/Hojabr
Riahi, Landesanstalt für
Medien/Fox Foto Uwe
Völkner, BBDO
p. 10, 11
UGC, acBon concept,
Brainpool/Willi Weber,
X Verleih, Wenders Images,
Film und MediensB-ung
NRW (2x), Kurt Krieger,
Pandora Film (2x),
RonHoward
p. 12, 13
Concorde, UFA Cinema/
Foto: Stephan Rabold,
www.manfredesser.de, NFP,
LiCle Shark Entertainment,
Wolfgang Groos, HeimaAilm,
ConstanBn Film AG,
X Filme/ChrisBne Halina
Schramm, Pandora Film
p. 14, 15
acBon concept, Tradewind
Pictures/Senator Film,
ConstanBn Filmverleih, NFP,
Ziegler Film, Splendid Film,
Film und MediensB-ung
NRW (2x), ARRI Media,
Augenschein
p. 16, 17
WDR/Herby Sachs, WDR/
Thomas Leidig, WDR/
Melanie Grande, RTL/
Stefan Gregorowius (5x),
ZDF/Willi Weber (2x),
Brainpool, WDR/ Max Kohr
(2x), ProSiebenSat.1,
RTL (5x), Brainpool/
Boris Breuer, RTL/
Willi Weber, WDR Aardman
AnimaBons Ltd., RTL/
Nadine Dilly, WDR/
BeDna Fürst-Fastré,
ARD/Michael Böhme,
ZDF/Fabian Preuschoff,
2015 Luke Mockridge,
WDR (5x), RTL/
Guido Engels, Vox, Super
RTL, UFA Show and Factual
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
p. 18, 19
ZDF/Fabian Preuschoff,
Brainpool/Boris Breuer,
Brainpool/Frank Hempel,
Brainpool/Willi Weber
ProsiebenSat.1,
Carolin Kebekus,
Broadview Pictures,
ITV Studios, Ansager &
Schnipselmann, RTL, MarBna
Hill, ZDF/Jens Oellermann,
FFP New Media
p. 20, 21
WDR/Markus Tedeskino,
RTL/Gordon Mühle,
VOX/Guido Lange, SWR/
Thomas Kost, Turner,
ZDF/David Slama, ARTE,
ZDF/Stephanie Kulbach,
ARD, Geißendörfer Filmund FernsehprodukBon KG,
acBon concept, Network
Movie, MMC Studios,
Rowboat, Zeitsprung, WDR
p. 22, 23
Electronic Arts (2x), Frame 6,
Ahoiii, Studio Fiz Bin,
Bigitec, m2p entertainment,
The Good Evil, Blue
Byte/Ubiso-, Bilal Chbib,
Daedalic
p. 24, 25
Facebook, RTL InteracBve,
PietSmiet, WDR mediagroup,
European Web Video
Academy
p. 26, 27
Electronic Arts (4x), Gesamtkunstwerk Entertainment,
Trickstudio LuCerbeck,
Elevision, Ubiso-, Coupies,
bam! InteracBve, Secusmart,
p. 28, 29
Mediengruppe DuMont
Schauberg (2x), Funke
Mediengruppe, Rheinische
Post, Bastei Lübbe,
HandelsblaC, Kiepenheuer &
Witsch, Olivier Favre
p. 30, 31
Henkel (2x), Brandt, afri cola,
BBDO Germany, Grey
Deutschland, IP Deutschland,
Ströer Media
p. 32, 33
WDR/Annika Fußwinkel (2x),
WDR/Brill, WDR/Herby
Sachs, Deutsche Welle,
1Live, radio NRW, Verband
lokaler Rundfunk NRW
p. 34, 35
Peter BoeCcher/Kra-werk,
Dieter Eikelpoth
Dirk Becker Entertainment,
c/o pop, Helmut ZerleC,
Kompakt, Patrick Buenning,
Wolfgang Niedecken
p. 36, 37
NetCologne (2x), ASTRO
Strobel KommunikaBonssysteme Deutschland,
Unitymedia, ANGA Verband
deutscher Kabelnetzbetreiber
p. 38, 39
Huawei, Deutsche
Telekom AG (2x), E-Plus
Mobilfunk (2x), Vodafone
(3x)
p. 40, 41
KHM/Miriam Gossing,
ifs internaBonale Filmschule
Köln (3x), Cologne Game
Lab, Folkwang Universität
der Künste, RTL
p. 42, 43
Startplatz (2x), Coworking
Space GarageBilk
(2x), UFA LAB Köln (2x),
Ralph Sondermann,
T-Ventures, Pixum, Railslove,
Maple Apps
p. 44, 45
Land NRW / M. Hermenau,
Film und MediensB-ung
NRW/Heike Herbertz,
NRW.Invest, Mediengründerzentrum NRW
p. 46, 47
Cologne Conference (2x),
RTL/Stefan Gregorowius,
Deutscher Webvideopreis,
lit.cologne, koelnmesse,
InternaBonales FrauenfilmfesBval Dortmund Köln
p. 48, 49, 50
Land NRW / M. Hermenau
(2x), Staatskanzlei NRW/
Fotoagentur Fox, MWEIMH
NRW/Hojabr Riahi, Claudia
Nussbauer, IKT.NRW, Film
und MediensB-ung NRW
(7x), Mediengründerzentrum
NRW, NRW.Bank, NRW.
Invest, Industrie- und
Handelskammer OstwesAalen
zu Bielefeld, Landesanstalt
für Medien NRW/Fox Foto
Uwe Völkner, Landesanstalt
für Medien NRW/
AnneCe Etges
p. 52
ConstanBn
p. 53
Alamode (FilmagenBnnen)
p. 54
RTL / Nikola Predovic,
RatPack
Cover 3
Turner, 2015 Sony Pictures
Releasing GmbH
Cover 4
WDR
Sources (selec<on)
Arbeitsmarkt in Zahlen,
Betriebe und sozialversicherungspflichBg Beschä-igte
(SvB) am Arbeitsort (AO),
StaBsBk der Bundesagentur
für Arbeit, November 2015
SteuerpflichBge und steuerbarer Umsatz 2013 nach
wirtscha-licher Gliederung,
InformaBon und Technik
NRW, Düsseldorf, 2015
Die Kultur- und KreaBvwirtscha- im IHK-Bezirk Köln,
Eine Standortanalyse unter
besonderer Betrachtung der
Medienwirtscha-, Prognos
AG i.A. der IHK Köln (Hg.),
August 2014
Film- und FernsehprodukBon
in NRW im Vergleich zu
anderen Bundesländern 2011
und 2012, FormaCInsBtut (Hg.), Juni 2014
Wich<ge Websites
www.filmsB-ung.de
www.medien.nrw.de
www.mediengruenderzentrum.de
www.creaBve-europe-desk.de
www.wimwenderssB-ung.de
www.creaBve.nrw.de
www.ikt.nrw.de
www.lfm-nrw.de
www.medienkarriere.nrw.de
www.aim-mia.de
www.nrw.de
www.mbem.nrw.de
www.mweimh.nrw.de
www.m*jks.nrw.de
www.nrwbank.de
www.nrwinvest.com
The selecBon of the companies
and locaBons described serves
as an example for the region
and does not claim to be complete.
KreaBv-Report NRW –
Ökonomische Bedeutung
und Potenziale der Kulturund KreaBvwirtscha- in
Nordrhein-WesAalen,
Prognos AG i.A. des Wirtscha-sministeriums NRW
(Hg.), Juni 2012
Imprint > 53
Winnetou
Notes
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Film und Medien
S%ung NRW GmbH
Kaistraße 14
40221 Düsseldorf
Phone +49 -211-930 500
info@films%ung.de
www.films%ung.de
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