Megaherz film and television

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Megaherz film and television

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legal form GmbH
founding 1983
Seat Unterfoehring , Germany
management Franz Xaver Gernstl , Fidelis Mager, Oliver Gernstl
Number of employees over 40 freelance authors
Website www.megaherz.org

The megaherz GmbH is a production company for cinema and television films , series made and corporate films . The company's headquarters are in Unterföhring in the Munich district. The managing directors are Franz Xaver Gernstl , Fidelis Mager and Oliver Gernstl.

history

In 1983 the filmmaker and producer Franz Xaver Gernstl founded the production company Megaherz GmbH together with cameraman Hans Peter Fischer . The first joint production was the Gernstl series of reports , which has now been awarded the Grimme Prize . The children's knowledge programs Willi wills Wissen , Checker Can , Checker Tobi and Checker Julian followed, among others . From 1997 to 2004 a loose series of semi-documentary television films was produced for the Bavarian and West German radio: Under the title Denk ich an Deutschland ... a total of twelve documentaries were released, including Mr. Wichmann from the CDU by Andreas Dresen and We forgot to return from Fatih Akin .

spectrum

Megaherz works for Das Erste , ZDF , Bavarian TV , WDR , SWR , NDR , RBB , HR , ARTE , KiKA , 3sat , ARD-alpha , ORF , Swiss TV , RTL , SuperRTL , and the Austrian private broadcaster ServusTV .

In addition to reports, series and documentaries for television and cinema, megaherz also produces corporate films.

In 2001 the company We Forgot to Return produced the first documentary by Fatih Akın , who was later nominated for an Oscar .

In 2005 megaherz co-produced the first German-language cinema film as a co-producer with Wholetrain , which depicts the subject of graffiti with a documentary background.

Megaherz portrayed Cleo Kretschmer and Alfons Schuhbeck for the BR series ' Lebenslinien' . For the series Heads in Bavaria on Bavarian TV, megaherz portrayed the life of cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt , Eckart Witzigmann , Lothar-Günther Buchheim , media manager Hans R. Beierlein , actor and cabaret artist Ottfried Fischer and the brother and sister actors Fritz Wepper and Elmar Wepper .

Since 2009 megaherz has been producing (in co-production with moviepool) the television program Landfrauenküche on behalf of BR Fernsehen.

In 2009 the go-ahead was given for the West German edition of the cooking country women: the TV series “Land & Lecker”, produced by moviepool and megaherz for WDR, celebrated its TV premiere on September 2, 2009.

In 2011, the adaptation of the rural women format for the SWR followed with “Lecker beim Land”.

Another megaherz production for SWR is the series “Mein Garten, Dein Garten”, which has been in production since 2016.

In cooperation with Zero One, the 24-hour television documentary 24h Bayern - Ein Tag Heimat about Bavaria and its residents was created in 2016/2017 . Produced on behalf of BR Fernsehen, the documentary reports in real time about the everyday life of 80 protagonists from various professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities who are representative of the population in the Free State.

Megaherz is also active for SuperRTL: the serial formats “Animal Travel” (2014, 20 episodes) and “Einfach Tierisch” (2016 and 2017, 40 episodes) provide interesting information about the animal world for children - and adults.

Productions (excerpt)

Awards

  • 1992: Grimme Prize for 51 degrees north - Germany across
  • 1998: Bavarian TV Prize for Thinking of Germany - The Whisper in the Mountain of Things
  • 1999: Grimme Prize for Thinking of Germany - The Whisper in the Mountain of Things
  • 2000: Bavarian television award for enlightenment guaranteed
  • 2000: Grimme Prize for Gernstl on the go
  • 2001: Bavarian TV Prize for Gernstl on the go
  • 2003: German Film Prize in Silver for Nude
  • 2003: Bavarian TV Prize for Willi wills Wissen
  • 2004: German television award - nomination for Engelchen flieg! , "Best Director": Adolf Winkelmann
  • 2008: Grimme Prize Special Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Willis VIPs - Anne Frank's Diary
  • 2007: Bavarian Culture Prize for Gernstl on the go - special prize from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art in partnership with E.ON Bayern AG
  • 2010: Special award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for programs for children and young people as part of the Grimme award for the episode How does the artist make art? with Willi wills know
  • 2010: Grimme Prize for How does the artist make art? - Willi wants to know
  • 2012: Children's Media Prize for Checker Can - White Elephant
  • 2014: German Academy for Television: “Best Documentary”: Let there be a city!
  • 2016: Bavarian TV Prize for Checker Tobi EXTRA - Why so many people are fleeing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ megaherz.org: Imprint
  2. ↑ Fidelis Mager at the German Film Academy
  3. ↑ Wholetrain at ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. www.grimme-institut.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  4. ↑ Lifelines - January 12, 2009 8:15 pm - BR ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Lifelines: Alfons Schuhbeck - "A life in 5 courses" )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.moviepool.de
  6. ↑ Fidelis Mager at the German Film Academy
  7. ↑ Fidelis Mager at the German Film Academy
  8. ↑ br.de: The culinary heritage of the Alps
  9. ↑ a b Awards for Thinking of Germany - The Whisper in the Mountain of Things

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