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DFFB Director Wolf Plesmann © WISTA Management GmbH

13.11.2024

Interim tenant with potential

The German Film and Television Academy Berlin is moving to Adlershof:

Early next year, the German Film and Television Academy Berlin GmbH (DFFB) will vacate its premises at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin’s hub for culture and media, as its lease there expires. The DFFB has found temporary…

Christian Oberfuchshuber © WISTA Management GmbH / Tina Merkau

10.09.2024

The cheerleader

Christian Oberfuchshuber fires up audiences as the crowd warmer for major TV shows:

His show is before the show: Christian „Fuchsi“ Oberfuchshuber is the crowd warmer for major TV shows like Germany’s Next Topmodel, Eurovision Song Contest, or ZDF-Fernsehgarten. Two years ago, he energised the crowd…

Moritz Russ at Adlershof’s cult cinema “Casablanca” © WISTA Management GmbH

01.07.2024

Adlershof was a huge playground to me

How his neighbourhood turned actor Moritz Russ into an artist:

First, Adlershof, then the whole world? Both a visionary and an artist, Moritz Russ could make it happen. His youth in Adlershof opened doors to the world of art. Russ is a jack-of-all-trades, writes poetry, turns…

Physics professor Çiğdem İşsever © WISTA Management GmbH

24.05.2024

How accurate is physics depicted in the movies?

“As long as the film stays in its own logic, I can accept other theories”, says Çiğdem İşsever from HU Berlin:

Caution is required whenever physics appears in films, says Çiğdem İşsever. She dedicates herself to the fundamentals of particle physics at Humboldt Universität’s Lise Meitner House in Adlershof. Entertainment…

Aerial view of Adlershof photographed from Ernst-Ruska-Ufer © WISTA.Plan GmbH/Dirk Laubner

25.03.2024

Berlin Adlershof: High technology, skilled employees and openness as key success factors

Germany's largest science and technology park remains an important pillar of Berlin's economy :

The Berlin Adlershof Science and Technology Park continued its positive development in 2023. Revenues and budget funds grew by a solid 7.1% to € 3.9 billion (2022: € 3.6 billion). The number of employees remained…

Sydney and Marc from Braunschweig on a studio tours at Studio Berlin © WISTA Management GmbH

19.01.2024

Television up close

The guided tours of the studios in Berlin Adlershof attract both Berliners and non-Berliners:

Berlin is not only the country’s capital but also a television hub. Many of the studios in Berlin Adlershof are up to 2,400 square metres large and home to TV mainstays like ‘Verstehen Sie Spaß?’ and ‘Klein gegen…

Scene from the filming of SOKO Wismar © WISTA Management GmbH

10.11.2023

Berlin is on the Baltic

“SOKO Wismar” is investigating in Adlershof:

The police station of the fictional special investigations unit “SOKO Wismar” of the eponymous crime series is a long way away from the seaside town of Wismar. It’s located in Studio 20c in Berlin Adlershof, 260…

Daniela Reidis, Matthias Pasler © WISTA Management GmbH

11.09.2023

“New talent often has trouble entering the industry”

Sabrina Schnell of TV+Synchron Berlin is committed to creating more diversity:

Life is not black and white; it’s colourful. However, these colours are not visible in the film industry in a particularly convincing way. Changes are underway. Actor Tyron Ricketts, for example, and his production…

Aerial photo with iconic graphic © WISTA.Plan GmbH/Dirk Laubner

27.03.2023

Berlin Adlershof: Record growth despite skills shortage and multiple crises

Positive development despite interlocking crises/ Remarkable increase particularly in employment:

Despite various interlocking crises, the Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof was able to grow significantly in 2022. Revenues and budgetary resources increased to €3.63 billion (2021: €3.21 billion),…

Trick animator Sabine Berger © WISTA Management GmbH

17.03.2023

A box full of memories

Sabine Berger was an animator on GDR television. An exhibition at Theater Ost commemorates the start of broadcasting:

Guten Abend, verehrte Fernsehfreunde – good evening, dear TV fans – were the fairly unspectacular words that launched the first two-hour broadcasts of German television in the former Soviet occupation zone, uttered by…

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