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UFA Fiction ist eine Tochterfirma der UFA und produziert Reihen, Serien, TV-Movies, Events und Kinofilme. Zu ihren Erfolgen gehören UNSERE MÜTTER, UNSERE VÄTER, KU'DAMM, ALTES LAND und DER JUNGE MUSS AN DIE FRISCHE LUFT.
UFA Fiction is a company founded in August 2013 for fiction film and television productions of the UFA based in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Die UFA Fiction GmbH ist eine im August 2013 gegründete Firma für fiktionale Film- und Fernsehproduktionen der UFA mit Sitz im Potsdamer Stadtteil Babelsberg. Die Firma entstand durch die Fusion der UFA-Tochtergesellschaften teamWorx, Phoenix Film und UFA Fernsehproduktion im Rahmen einer Umstrukturierung der UFA und dem ...
UFA Fiction is a German award winning film and television Company and a unique leader in the German film and television market, offering a remarkable portfolio of films and series which have strongly influenced the German production landscape.
- Establishment from 1917
- Silent Era
- Hugenberg
- Nazification
- Nationalization
- State Film Monopoly: UFI
- Post-War Period: Dissolution and Sovietization vs. Re-Privatization
- Bertelsmann
An early step towards the founding of UFA was taken on January 13, 1917, with the creation of the Bild- und Filmamt (Bufa) by Germany's Supreme Army Command. Formed as a reaction to the perceived advantage of Germany's enemies in the realm of film propaganda, Bufa's task was to use film for psychological warfare. The plans envisaged by the German G...
Given that Germany had been – and continued to be – largely cut off from film imports due to World War I, the new company had ideal conditions for their conquest of the German market. The mission of UFA at the time of its founding was the production of films – feature films, documentaries, cultural films and weekly headline (newsreel) films – desig...
In 1927, UFA found itself in serious financial trouble. After the stabilization of the German currency starting in November 1924, the German film industry in general entered a period of crisis: foreign sales stalled due to low profit margins, and the German market became profitable once again for American film giants. The resulting concentration on...
UFA experienced a new commercial boom in the Nazi era, not least due to the government's protectionist measures, which freed the company from bothersome domestic and foreign competition, sometimes even incorporating their production facilities and staff (see also: National Socialist Film Policy). On top of that, by occupying almost all of Europe, t...
In 1936, Germany's first film institute was founded in the form of the UFA-Lehrschau set up by Hans Traub at the Babelsberg Film Complex. Goebbels systematically brought UFA and all other media companies under the control of his Propaganda Ministry. On March 18, 1937, the Hugenberg Company was forced to sell all of its UFA shares for 21.25 million ...
On January 10, 1942, UFA officially became the subsidiary of UFA-Film GmbH (UFI), into which all German film production was merged. Other companies were dissolved or integrated into UFA at the time, including Bavaria Film, Berlin-Film, Terra Film and Tobis AG, which became additional production units. Film production in the captured nations was als...
In late April 1945, the UFA ateliers in Potsdam-Babelsberg and Berlin-Tempelhofwere occupied by the Red Army. After the German Wehrmacht issued its unconditional surrender on May 7 & 9, 1945, the Military Government Law No. 191 initially halted and prohibited all further film production. On July 14, 1945, as a result of Military Government Law No. ...
In 1964, Bertelsmann acquired Universum-Film AG and all other divisions of UFA-Theater AG. In order to prevent the sale of film rights belonging to the old UFA, the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation was set up in Wiesbaden on the initiative of the German Federal Government and representatives of the film industry. In 1966, the foundation acquired...
May 15, 2024 · The TV series “Maxton Hall – The World Between Us,” produced by UFA Fiction for Amazon Prime Video, has achieved the largest global audience for a non-US title in the history of Prime Video in its launch week.
Fresh from the global success of Cold War drama Deutschland 83, Germany’s UFA Fiction is now exploring the political and sexual revolution of 1950s Berlin in Ku’damm 56. Michael Pickard reports. A tree-lined boulevard filled with shops, restaurants and hotels, Kurfürstendamm is described as the Champs-Élysées of Berlin.
