TaurusMediaTechnik

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TaurusMediaTechnik GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1975
resolution in bankruptcy since 2002
Seat Unterfoehring , Germany
management Karl Mauthe (1985-2002)
Number of employees 430
Branch Film technology
Status: 2002

The Taurus Media GmbH , formerly Beta technology company for film editing mbH was the film technical service and production companies in the Kirch group . At the headquarters in Unterföhring, she maintained the largest film archive in Europe and was responsible for the post-production and dubbing of films and series.

history

In 1959, Leo Kirch founded the rights trading company Beta-Film GmbH & Co. in Munich. Manfred R. Köhler set up a separate department here that was responsible for the synchronization of the films and series acquired. In the beginning, Beta-Film rented a room in the Aventin-Film-Studios, before 1961 own studios in the district of Sendling were available. In 1975 the dubbing department was transferred to the subsidiary Beta-Technik Gesellschaft für Filmbverarbeitung mbH , which moved into a new building in Unterföhring in the same year. Additional technical services such as color correction, standard conversion, film scanning and restoration were added to the core business of synchronization. The company also operated the Kirch Group's film archive, which recently comprised more than 18,000 titles, including 13,162 feature films, 3,103 television series and 1,869 television films.

With the introduction of digital television companies BetaDigital and BetaResearch for technical processing of broadcasting and software development (encryption standard went out of beta technique produces 1996 Betacrypt , decoder operating system Betanova ) of new pay-TV platform DF1 were responsible .

On January 1st, 1999 the name was changed to TaurusMediaTechnik GmbH . As a subsidiary of KirchMedia GmbH & Co. KGaA , insolvency proceedings were opened in mid-2002 and 350 of the 430 employees were dismissed. TaurusMediaTechnik was continued and restructured as part of the bankruptcy settlement. On November 1, 2005, Studio Babelsberg AG took over the post-production division, which was sold to Elektrofilm in 2006. TaurusMedia License Service GmbH was created in January 2007 as part of a management buy-out by Paul Reichl, the long-standing head of materials management and film processing . After Elektrofilm withdrew from Unterföhring in 2008, Reichl also took over the post-production division. TaurusMedia Digital GmbH was established in January 2009 and TaurusMedia Synchron GmbH in May 2010 .

In 2014 Taurus Media Synchron GmbH and Taurus Media License Service GmbH went bankrupt. Taurus Media Digital GmbH has been based in northern Schwabing since 2013.

synchronization

The best-known films dubbed by beta technology include Citizen Kane (1962), The 39 Steps (1966; new dubbed version), Dead sleep tight (1967), A Lady Disappears (1971) and Casablanca (1975; new dubbed version). She also dubbed most of Laurel and Hardy's feature films . The dubbing department soon specialized in editing television series such as Big Valley , The People from Shiloh Ranch , Spaceship Enterprise and Kung Fu . In the mid-1970s, beta technology dubbed some popular children's series, including Wickie and the Strong Men , Maya the Bee and Heidi . In the following years, numerous other series were given a German version, including Unter der Sonne Kaliforniens , Alf , Eine terrible Nice Family (Seasons 10 and 11), Roseanne (Seasons 8 and 9) or The Simpsons (Seasons 4 to 13).

Wolfgang Schick and Lothar Michael Schmitt were closely connected to beta technology, as authors and directors who were responsible for a considerable number of synchronizations for more than 30 years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the role. In: Der Spiegel. No. 29, July 14, 2003, pp. 86-89.

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