Bavaria Entertainment

Bavaria Entertainment GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1996/2002
Seat	Cologne
management	Arne Merten, Managing Director (Business Director) Alessandro Nasini , Managing Director
Number of employees	100
Branch	TV production
Website	www.bavaria-entertainment.de
Status: 2018

Bavaria Entertainment is a television production company based in Cologne. The company produces TV shows and comedy, factual entertainment formats, documentaries, reports and magazines.

Company history

The company was founded in May 2002 as First Entertainment GmbH by Westdeutsche Rundfunkwerbung GmbH and Bavaria Film GmbH (Munich). In 2006 it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bavaria Film and was renamed Bavaria Entertainment GmbH on February 1, 2015 . On July 1, 2017, Bavaria Entertainment and the Cologne-based production house wellenreiter.tv, founded in 1996, merged their business activities. Since then, management has been jointly carried out by Oliver Fuchs (Bavaria), Alessandro Nasini (wave rider) and Arne Merten (wave rider). Since the departure of Oliver Fuchs on September 30, 2018, the management has been with Alessandro Nasini as Managing Director and Arne Merten as Business Director. Around 100 permanent and freelance employees work at the headquarters in Cologne.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 33 ″  E

Productions

Show & Comedy

• Hirschhausen's consultation hour - health program with Eckart von Hirschhausen ( WDR , 2020)
• You'll never think of it! - Quiz show with Johannes B. Kerner ( ZDF , 2017 to today)
• 1Live Krone (Showproducing) - Moderation Luke Mockridge ( WDR , 2019)
• The best choir in the west - with Marco Schreyl ( WDR , 2016 to today)
• The best class in Germany - with Malte Arkona ( KiKa , 2008 to today)
• Masters of everyday life - quiz show with Florian Weber ( SWR , 2012 to today)
• Checkpoint - The Great Digital Battle ( KiKa , 2018)
• Monday painter - advice show with Guido Cantz ( SWR , 2018)
• FREAKS - Dramedy (funk, 2018)

• Better than the quiz legends - TV quiz with Sven Epiney ( SRF , 2018)
• #omg - sketch comedy for funk.net (2016-2017)
• Nobody deceives me! - Knowledge show with Dirk Steffens ( ZDF , 2015-2017)
• New Pop Festival - Das Special - with Guido Cantz ( ARD , 2011 to 2018)
• The hit records - with Giovanni Zarrella ( RTL II , 2016)
• A lot to offer - with Marcel Struck , Alexandra Brandner, Boris Schnitzler, Michael Büttgen ( ZDFneo , 2017)
• Off through home - with Bodo Bach , Pierre M. Krause , Lars Reichow and Christoph Sonntag ( SWR , 2016)
• The big show of natural wonders - with Frank Elstner and Ranga Yogeshwar ( ARD , 2006 to 2016)
• The quiz heroes - who knows the southwest? - Quiz show with Jens Hübschen ( SWR , 2015 to 2019)
• The quiz for the west - quiz show with Marco Schreyl ( WDR , 2017)
• Formula one - music show with Peter Illmann ( RTL NITRO , 2013 to 2917)
• The big hatch - with Johannes B. Kerner ( ZDF , 2015)

Factual entertainment

• What does Switzerland cost? - with Nicole Berchtold ( SRF1 - 2020)
• Make something out of it - with Eva Brenner ( ZDF , since 2019)
• Of all things - with Daniel Aßmann and (from 2020) Sven Kroll ( WDR , 2015 to today)
• Stadt, Land Lecker ( ZDF , 2016 to 2019)
• Dear & dear: who offers more? with Janin Ullmann and Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt ( NDR , 2019)
• No more Boys and Girls - with Collien Ulmen-Fernandes (ZDFneo, 2018)
• Jenke about life - with Jenke von Wilmsdorff ( RTL , 2018)
• Operation in the West - The Autobahn Police ( WDR , 2017)
• Genial Regional - with Christian Lohse ( rbb , 2017)
• Schrott or not - with Johannes Büchs and Laura Kampf ( KiKa , 2016 to 2017)
• Dictator ( ZDFneo , 2017)
• Uschi's VIP Gardens - with Uschi Dämmrich (BR, 2011 to today)
• green & beautiful - with Andrea Ballschuh and Mick Wewers ( ZDFinfo , 2015)
• Bock through the country ( WDR , 2014 to 2016)
• Mrs. Heinrich is coming - with Sabine Heinrich ( WDR , 2015)
• The exchange duel - with Thorsten Schorn and Yvonne Willicks ( WDR , 2016)
• The bargain makers - with Alex Walzer ( RTL II )

Documentation and reporting

• Thomas Anders - forever different ( MDR , 2018)
• How good are our doctors? ( ZDF , 2017)
• Attention, campers! ( ZDFinfo )
• Germany, your brands ( ZDFinfo , 2016)
• Germany mobile ( ZDFinfo , 2017)
• 37 ° When love drowns - My husband, alcohol and I ( ZDF , 2016)
• In the debt trap (ZDFinfo, 2017)
• Something like luck - a trip with Anke Engelke ( ARD , 2013)
• 37 ° Without money, small world ( ZDF , 2013)

Magazines and infotainment

• Kotaska cooks - at Volle Kanne - daily service with Mario Kotaska ( ZDF , 2020)
• healthy all round - health magazine (SWR, since 2019)
• Knowledge before eight nature - with Thomas D ( ARD , 2012 to today)
• Living & Design - at " Volle Kanne - Service Daily " with Ann-Kathrin Otto and Mick Wewers ( ZDF )
• WISO That's right ( ZDF , 2014 to 2018)

Awards

• German Television Award 2019: Jenke von Wilmsdorff was a. a. Awarded the German Television Prize 2019 in the Infotainment category for the "Jenke über Leben" format .

Web links

• Bavaria Entertainment website
• Thomas Lückerath: "ARD / ZDF more entertaining, making private people more relevant" - Interview with Arne Merten, Alessandro Nasini and Oliver Fuchs, managing directors at Bavaria Entertainment. DWDL.de, August 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Editing of ARD publications: First Entertainment GmbH >> Bavaria Entertainment GmbH. Retrieved October 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ DWDL.de GmbH: Bavaria Entertainment takes wellenreiter.tv - DWDL.de . In: DWDL.de . ( dwdl.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
3. ↑ Bavaria Entertainment - About us. Retrieved February 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ You never figure it out! ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
5. ↑ Jeanette Erfurth: The best choir in the west. January 18, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ KiKA - children's channel from ARD and ZDF: KiKA - The best class in Germany. January 19, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018 (German). 
7. ↑ Home | Master of everyday life. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German). 
8. ↑ Entertainment programs - “Better than the quiz legends”: New game show on SRF 1. Accessed on January 24, 2018 . 
9. ↑ #OMG - new YouTube sketch comedy for funk / With YouTube stars like Phil Laude, TC, Sarah Liz, Jokah and Pesh / From February 11th, every Thursday and Sunday . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
10. ↑ Nobody deceives me! ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]). Nobody deceives me! ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ New Pop Festival - The Special | Music broadcasts in the first. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 1, 2017 ; accessed on January 24, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ The hit records. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
13. ↑ A lot to offer. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Home | Natural wonders. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German). 
15. ↑ Home | The quiz heroes. Accessed January 24, 2018 (German). 
16. ↑ Katja Banse: The Quiz for the West . July 4, 2017 ( wdr.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
17. ↑ Formula One - The hits of the 90s - NITRO - NITRO. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
18. ^ "The big hatch" - live on ZDF: ZDF press portal. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Jörg Gaensel: Of all things | All episodes with Daniel Assmann and Sven Kroll. January 23, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 . 
20. ↑ City, Country, Delicious . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
21. ↑ Anja Rützel: Children and gender clichés: The pink-light-blue brain octopus . In: Spiegel Online . November 22, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 5, 2019]).
22. ↑ Jenke About Life . In: rtl.de . ( rtl.de [accessed on November 28, 2018]).
23. ↑ WDR: Broadcast - Operation in the West - The Autobahn Police on Mon, January 8th, 2018 - WDR television. (No longer available online.) January 24, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 24, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
24. ↑ Ingenious regional. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
25. ↑ KiKA - children's channel from ARD and ZDF: KiKA - SCHROTT OR NOT? December 11, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2018 (German). 
26. ^ Dictator . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
27. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Conversations in the Green: Uschi's VIP Gardens | BR.de . June 12, 2017 ( br.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
28. ^ WDR: The Exchange Duel - Press Lounge - WDR. October 12, 2016, accessed January 24, 2018 . 
29. ↑ mdr.de: Thomas Anders - forever different | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed on November 28, 2018]).
30. ↑ ZDFzeit: How good are our doctors? ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
31. ↑ Germany, your brands: Lufthansa . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]). Germany, your brands: Lufthansa ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
32. ↑ When love drowns . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
33. ↑ In the debt trap - attachment of accounts and bailiffs . ( zdf.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
34. ^ Programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: Something like luck - A journey with Anke Engelke. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
35. ↑ 37 degrees: 'Small world without money - children in the social offside' . In: www.t-online.de . ( t-online.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
36. ↑ Knowledge before eight - nature | DasErste.de . In: First German Television (ARD) . ( daserste.de [accessed on January 24, 2018]).
37. ↑ Living & design: terrace beautification. Retrieved January 24, 2018 . 
38. ↑ Is it true: Music purchased online cannot be inherited? (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
39. ↑ The German Television Award: 2019 Best Infotainment. In: Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2019. Retrieved on February 5, 2019 (German).