Degeto Film

Degeto Film
Founded1928
Headquarters
Frankfurt am Main
,
Germany
Key people
Thomas Schreiber
Patricia Schlesinger
Revenue14,800,000 Euro (2016) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
89 (2016)
Websitedegeto.de

Degeto Film GmbH (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Bild) is a film rights trader and production company of the ARD, based in Frankfurt am Main. Its shareholders are the regional broadcasting corporations of ARD or their advertising subsidiaries.

ARD Degeto acquires fictional programs for ARD's flagship national television channel Das Erste, the so called "Third Programmes" (TV channels) of the regional broadcasting corporations (BR, HR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen, RBB, SR, SWR, WDR), 3sat, Arte, One and the other ARD channels.[1]

History

The company was founded in 1928 as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ton und Film e. V. and produced and distributed propaganda films for Hitler's Reich government in the 1930s and 1940s.[2][3] It operated under the name Degeto – Kulturfilm G.m.b.H. from 1937, and from 1942 as Degeto Film GmbH. After reactivation in 1952 by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), the company was initially owned by Werbung im Rundfunk GmbH, a subsidiary of HR, from 1954 and was jointly taken over by the ARD broadcasters in 1959.[4][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Die Degeto Film GmbH" (in German). Degeto Film. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ ""Alles wird gut"" (in German). brand eins. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Degeto" (in German). Das Lexikon der Filmbegriffe (University of Kiel). Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  4. ^ "ARD übernimmt Degeto Film" (in German). ARD. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

Further reading

  • Aurich, Rolf (2018). Die Degeto und der Staat. Kulturfilm und Fernsehen zwischen Weimar und Bonn. Munich: Edition Text + Kritik. ISBN 978-3-86916-605-6.