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taglicht media Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1996
Seat	Cologne , Germany
management	Uli Veith , Bernd Wilting
Number of employees	20th
Branch	Film production
Website	www.taglichtmedia.de

The Taglicht media Film & TV Produktion GmbH is a German film production company based in Cologne .

The company was founded in 1996 by Uli Veith and Bernd Wilting and employs 20 people.

Taglicht Media specializes in documentary films and is one of the leading production companies in the industry. The main clients are public and state television broadcasters in Europe . The company is a member of the Documentary Film Section of the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television (with Bernd Wilting on the Section Board) and the Documentary Film Working Group .

In 2014 Taglicht Media received around 140,000 euros in funding from the European Union's Creative Europe Media funding program for the development of a documentary film package.

Awards

The following documentaries produced by Taglicht Media have been nominated or awarded:

2014: Goldener Spatz (information / documentation) for "Of Owls, Airplanes and Early Birds" (Director: Uta Meyer, for RTL magazine "Loop! Knowledge up close" )
2014: Emmy nomination ( “Outstanding Cinematography” ) for “Killer in the Caves” (camera: Roland Breitschuh , director: Dennis Wells)
2015: Grimme Prize (information and culture) for three-part documentary series "D files" (directors: Christoph Weber , Winfried Oelsner , Florian Opitz , for WDR , MDR and BR )
2015: Regino Prize for "D Files - The Failure of Post-War Justice" (Director: Christoph Weber, for ARD )
2015: "German Biodiversity Film Award " by NaturVision for "Bees - A Changing World" (Director: Dennis Wells)
2016: "German Biodiversity Film Award " by NaturVision for "The Yellowstone Riddle" (Director: Manfred Corrine )

Filmography (selection)

2017: D-files - Die Macht der Automobilindustrie (documentary series, ARD, director: John A. Kantara )
2017: File D - The Pension Lie (documentary series, ARD, director: Tom Ockers )
2017: File D - The Failure of Housing Policy (documentary series, ARD, directors: Julia Meyer, Judith Voelker)
2017: Terra X - Der Aufstand des Mahdi (documentary series, ZDF , director: Robert Schotter )
2016: Star Hunter - Night Sky Adventure
2016: Power and its price - The VW files (documentary, ARD / arte , director: Achim Scheunert)
2016: Fight for Europe (documentary, ZDF, director: Achim Scheunert)
2016: Wild Castles - Predjama Castle (documentary series, director: Michael Gärtner)
2016: The Fact Checker (documentary series, RTL )
2015: Yellowstone National Park - Why are the elk (documentary, arte, director: Manfred Corrine) disappearing
2015: D-Files - The Power of the Pharma Industry (documentary series, WDR, director: Winfried Oelsner)
2015: Universum History - Olympia 1936. The betrayed dream (documentary series, ORF / PBS , director: Christoph Weber)
2015: D-files - The comeback of the armaments industry (documentary series, ARD, director: Dirk Laabs )
2015: Terra X - Buccaneers of the Seas, episodes 1 and 2 (documentary series, ZDF, director: Robert Schotter)
2015: Terra X - our beer. A world history (documentary series, ZDF, director: Robert Schotter)
2015: Greece - From the peaks to the sea (multi-part documentary, arte, director: Johannes Backes)
2015: Terra X - From Francis Drake to the Arab Corsairs (multi-part documentary, director: Robert Schotter)
2015: zip! Knowledge for you (TV magazine, RTL)
2014: Bees - A changing world (documentary, director: Dennis Wells)
2014: Files D - The Power of the Electricity Cartel (documentary series, ARD, director: Florian Opitz)
2014: File D - The failure of post-war justice (documentary series, ARD, director: Christoph Weber)
2014: Houses with a past! (Multipart documentary, WDR, director: Heike Nikolaus)
2014: Loop! Knowledge up close (TV magazine, RTL, director: Uta Meyer)
2014: zip! Knowledge for you (TV magazine, RTL, director: Uta Meyer)
2013: Greece from island to island
2013: Charlemagne
2010: Universe: First on Everest
2009: This is how the world eats
2009: Fräulein Stinnes drives around the world
2009: Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
2008: Giant rat clearing command - sniffing out mines
2007: The return of the plagues
2006: The Invisible Enemy - Child Abuse On The Internet
2006: Traces of Fear
2005: Hermione's List - The Children of the Merciless Sisters
2005: Black Starlets - The dream of great football
2005: The Revenge of Creation
2005: Stubborn, lazy, stupid? - The rediscovery of the donkey
2005: Attack on America
2004: dream ship
2003: I'm already swinging on one leg - help for fidgety children
2003: Storms for Germany
2002: World Elf - children and their love for football