ZDFE Takes Stake in REAL FILM Berlin

ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) is acquiring a 49 percent stake in REAL FILM Berlin, a subsidiary of the Studio Hamburg Production Group.

The production portfolio includes the ARD event movie 3 ½ Hours, Netflix series Unorthodox and the ZDF crime series Against Angst and Colleagues. Further productions include rbb’s Tatort and Polizeiruf: 110, the ARD Degeto series Doctor’s Office with Sea View, SOKO Wismar and Auckland Detectives for ZDF.

The acquisition is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities.

Fred Burcksen, president and CEO of ZDF Enterprises, said, “I am pleased to now extend the excellent collaboration that already exists in the nonfiction area with the Studio Hamburg Production Group to the fiction genre. REAL FILM is a great addition to our investment portfolio in fiction programs. I wish the two managing directors of REAL FILM Michael Lehmann and Henning Kamm every success.”

“We are delighted to be working with ZDF Enterprises to further strengthen the successful REAL FILM brand,” said Michael Lehmann (Studio Hamburg Production Group) and Johannes Züll (Studio Hamburg). “REAL FILM already produces a wide variety of productions for cinema, TV and streaming services and would like to continue to offer the best creative people a successful home in the future. We look forward to touching, humorous, exciting films and series made in Berlin!”