steyl media

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steyl medien is a Catholic film production company founded in 1961, which belongs to the Steyler missionaries . Steyl medien produces and sells media for education, teaching and community work as well as commissioned work from church institutions, educational institutions and TV broadcasters.

History and organization

Steyl medien was founded on December 11, 1961 under the direction of Father Johannes Rzitkas as Steyl SVD - Film und Ton eV . The purpose of the association was to promote the idea of ​​unifying people with the help of media work. Rzitka's conviction was that good media can inform, stimulate discussions and give food for thought.

Steyl medien is a registered association) and recognized as a non-profit organization. The managing director of the association is Anton Deutschmann. There is also a limited liability company whose managing director is Martin Neuhauser.)

As a production company owned by the Order, Steyl medien belongs to the group of denominational film production companies. The addition steyl media on the Catholic diocese level, the company Tellux film and the Catholic film work on the part of the EKD , the Matthias-Film .

Publications and clients

Steyl medien produces media for educational work and adult education, catechesis and religious instruction, as well as media with generally Christian or ethical content. Initially, the company made documentaries. From the USA, the founder, Father Rzitka, brought the “sound image” to the German market for the first time in the early 1960s - the combination of audio cassette and slide series. This was a novelty in the German media landscape. The production of slide series and audio books began in the mid-1960s. The several hundred audio images, audio cassettes and films shaped the use of media in the classroom. The company has mainly been producing documentaries since the 1990s.

The clients include school film producers such as the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education (FWU) or the Katholische Filmwerk .

TV magazine "limitless"

The television magazine “limitless” has been published since 2005. According to its own information, it is the first order magazine on German television. It should report on the Divine Order of Mission ( Divine Missionaries , Divine Divine Missionaries and Divine Adoration Sisters ) and thus make a contribution to the "media proclamation". It is broadcast on the TV stations Bibel TV and K-TV .

literature

  • Björn Rohloff: Media in the Context of Religiously Oriented Educational Work: A Study of Educational Media Development since 1945 with Special Consideration of Audiovisual Media , LIT Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1782-4 , pp. 152f.
  • Franz Weber , Thomas Böhm, Anna Findl-Ludescher , Hubert Findl (eds.): Becoming human in faith: Impulses for pastoral care that comes into the world LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3825847381 , p. 325f. (Festschrift for Hermann Stenger on his 80th birthday)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steyl-medien eV, entry in the register of associations, register no. VR 6474 in the district court of Munich . (Available via the common register portal of the federal states
  2. ↑ Steyl medien Gesellschaft mbH, Commercial Register No .: HRB 66432 at the Munich Local Court . (Available from the Electronic Federal Gazette
  3. ↑ Information on limitless on the Steyl medien website