UFA Serial Drama
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1988 (as Grundy TV Produktions GmbH) |
| Seat | Potsdam , Germany |
| management | Joachim Kosack , Markus Brunnemann |
| Website | ufa-serialdrama.de |
UFA Serial Drama is a UFA subsidiary based in Potsdam - Babelsberg and a producer of industrially manufactured television formats in Europe. Until 2013 the company was called GrundyUFA TV Produktions GmbH .
Companies
The company's core business consists of series that are produced for private and public broadcasters. For this purpose, UFA Serial Drama produces up to 42 minutes of broadcast material per day, which can produce more than 750 hours of fictional programming per year. With Potsdam-Babelsberg, Cologne-Ossendorf and Budapest, UFA Serial Drama has three production sites. The company's managing directors are Joachim Kosack and Markus Brunnemann . Rainer Wemcken was managing director until 2016 .
history
In 1992 GrundyUFA developed Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten ( RTL ), the first daily series for the German television market. The format Unter Uns (RTL) followed in 1994 and Verbotene Liebe ( ARD ) in 1995 . GrundyUFA introduced another daily series format in 2006 with Alles was geht (RTL).
GrundyUFA has been producing the series Barátok Közt (Unter Freunde) in Budapest since 1997. With a market share of around 40%, it is the TV format with the highest market share in Hungary.
In addition to the production of daily series formats, GrundyUFA introduced the telenovela genre in Germany in 2004 and developed productions such as Weg zum Glück ( ZDF from 2004 to 2009 and 2012) and Verliebt in Berlin ( Sat.1 , from 2005 to 2007).
new media
With up to 40 million page impressions per month, the website was awarded the Grimme Online Awards Audience Award by Gute Zeiten - Bad Zeiten in 2004 . In 2008 GrundyUFA developed the Pietshow, the first web series that went online on StudiVZ and was nominated for the International Digital Emmy Award. Season two of the online format started in October 2009 and was also nominated for the International Digital Emmy Award in March 2010.
In addition to Good Times and Bad Times , UFA Serial Drama extends all long-running TV formats to the Internet. To this end, the company develops original content in the form of web series, spin-offs, interactive tools and Facebook groups. These are produced centrally by the in-house digital unit "UFA X".
As part of its social media activities, UFA Serial Drama launched the YouTube channel Verbotene Liebe with content for the series in November 2012 . After the format-lengthening web series Unter Vier Augen ( Everything that counts ), Clarissa's Diary ( Forbidden Love ) and Des Jäger Herz ( Unter Uns ), which was produced by the “digital” team , the web series Because it is love started on December 17, 2012 ... - Marlene & Rebecca on the new YouTube channel.
Productions
| Beginning | The End | Series title | Channel | genre | Number of episodes * | annotation |
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| 1992 | still running | Good times Bad Times | RTL | daily soap | 7,000+ | |
| 1994 | still running | Between us | RTL | daily soap | 6,000+ | |
| 1994 | 2015 | Forbidden love | The first | daily soap | 4,664 | |
| 1996 | 1997 | All together - each for himself | RTL II | daily soap | 230 | |
| 1997 | still running | Barátok közt | RTL club | daily soap | 2,000 | as Magyar Grundy UFA |
| 1997 | 2007 | Behind bars - the woman barn | RTL | Weekly Soap | 403 | |
| 1999 | 2000 | Mallorca - search for paradise | ProSieben | daily soap | 200 | as Grundy UFA Baleares |
| 2000 | 2000 | Big city dreams | RTL | Weekly Soap | 18th | |
| 2000 | 2000 | Between the hours | Web soap | 30th | ||
| 2003 | 2005 | Szeress must! | RTL club | Weekly Soap | 67 | as Magyar Grundy UFA |
| 2004 | 2005 | Bianca - ways to happiness | ZDF | Telenovela | 224 | in cooperation with teamWorx |
| 2005 | 2007 | In love in Berlin | Sat 1 | Telenovela | 645 | in collaboration with Phoenix Film |
| 2005 | 2009 |
Paths to happiness , formerly: Julia - Paths to happiness |
ZDF | Telenovela | 789 | |
| 2005 | 2006 | Sophie - unwilling bride | The first | Telenovela | 65 | |
| 2005 | 2006 |
Tessa - life for love , formerly: life for love |
ZDF | Telenovela | 125 | |
| 2006 | still running | All that counts | RTL | daily soap | 3000+ | |
| 2008 | 2008 | Pietshow | studiVZ | Web soap | 15th | Internet production for studiVZ |
| 2009 | 2010 |
Hanna - follow your heart , formerly: Alisa - follow your heart |
ZDF | Telenovela | 370 | in cooperation with teamWorx |
| 2009 | 2010 | We are bigger than BIG | MySpace | Web soap | 10 | Internet production for MySpace |
| 2009 | 2010 | One like none | Sat 1 | Telenovela announced as soap opera | 212 | in collaboration with Phoenix Film |
| 2015 | 2015 | Mila | Sat.1, later Sixx | Telenovela announced as soap opera | 75 | |
| 2016 | still running | Spotlight | Nickelodeon | daily soap | 31+ | in collaboration with Nickelodeon |
| 2016 | 2016 | Stars of Berlin - The young police officers | RTL II | daily soap | 20th |
* The number of episodes of the daily series currently produced corresponds to the number of episodes broadcast until the end of 2008, the number of episodes of web soaps and telenovelas to the currently planned length of production.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Wemcken leaves the UFA. In: www.mediabiz.de. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
- ↑ UFA: UFA X. In: ufa.de. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .