RIVA television studios

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The RIVA television studios were a film and television production company in Unterföhring (Bavaria). The name RIVA is made up of the first two letters of the surnames of the two company founders, Hans Ritter and Wilhelm Vaillant .

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After the war, Wilhelm Vaillant founded a light bulb factory in Munich together with the lawyer Hans Ritter and incorporated a film copier factory (RIVA-Copier-Werke) and a dubbing studio (RIVA-Synchron) into it. The post-war passion for cinema contributed significantly to the company's success. However, when sales fell, Wilhelm Vaillant turned to television.

In the late autumn of 1958, construction began on the television studios in Unterföhring ( coordinates ). This laid the foundation stone for today's agglomeration of media companies in the community northeast of Munich. In 1961 Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) was won as a permanent tenant. On June 15, 1962, a rental agreement was signed with ZDF . From January 1st, 1963, the Mainz establishment had four recording studios with a total of 1,700 m² available for their productions.

The BR acquired the RIVA television studios on June 18, 1962 for 18.5 million DM and accepted the existing ZDF lease upon purchase. The eastern part of the site was leased back by Vaillant in order to sublet it to the ZDF regional studio in Bavaria. Vaillant built new studios on this area with the latest production technology. The introduction of the modular principle (front-building halls) and the strict implementation of the principle of the studio of short distances enabled an assembly line production that was only available at the BBC at the time.

On January 1, 1963, the Bavarian Broadcasting Company began operating in the studios. After attempting its own production, Vaillant sold the new studios to the ZDF regional studio in Bavaria in 1966. ZDF operated the studios from 1966 to 1997 through the 100% subsidiary Fernsehstudio München Atelierbetriebsgesellschaft mbH , or FSM for short.

The street name Rivastraße still reminds of the origin of the studio area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Roeber, Gerhard Jacoby: Handbook of the film industry media areas . Verlag Documentation Saur, Pullach 1973, p. 349.
  2. ^ Ivo Mossig : Networks of the Culture Economy: Local Nodes and Global Interdependencies of the Film and Television Industry in Germany and the USA . transcript Verlag, 2006, p. 110.