The Media Region North Rhine-Westphalia

FILM &MEDIA NRW The Media Region North Rhine-Westphalia

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Welcome Editorial Media Region NRW Film Television Radio Publishers Music Adver@sing Games Internet & Web Mobile Telecommunica@on Cabel & Satellite Start-ups Educa@on Events Funding & Financing Contacts Imprint

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Welcome

Film, TV, radio, Internet, games, print - the media region of NRW offers the best condi@ons for start-ups. 414,000 employees in 25,000 media and communica@on companies and an annual turnover of 130 billion Euros have made us into the leading hub for the media industry in Germany.

The basis for further growth in this sector is a good course of training and intensive support of the next genera@on. The North Rhine-Westphalian colleges and universi@es offer a broad range of specialised courses for no less than around 200 different professions in the media sector. Our talent labs and funding programmes open up diverse possibili@es for those newcomers with a penchant for innova@on to enable them to realise their ideas. One of our programmes is the lead market compe@@on „CreateMedia.NRW“ under the auspices of the new funding tranche of the European Regional Development Fund. This compe@@on is a way for the regional state government to support media and crea@ve enterprises

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in realising new ideas. In addi@on, we can support outstanding media projects which further improve the compe@@veness of NRW as a media centre. The Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW, one of Germany’s largest film funds, has been playing an important role in this respect for many years. The local TV sta@ons WDR and RTL as well as ZDF and the media authority Landesanstalt für Medien NRW also par@cipate here along with the Land. The S@,ung is the top address in North RhineWestphalia not least because of its regional marke@ng and the funding of innova@ve media content.

You can find up-to-date informa@on on everything about NRW as a media region in the following pages. I wish you an entertaining read! Hannelore Kra), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia

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Editorial

34,000 square kilometres, 18 million inhabitants, located in the western half of Germany and at the heart of Europe, dominated by the Rhine and its ci@es steeped in history and also the industrial landscape of the Ruhr area – North Rhine-Westphalia is this and much more.

Once the stronghold of coal and steel, NRW is now known for its highly qualified media, crea@ve and digital industries. Whether it is film and television, telecommunica@ons and publishing houses, adver@sing and communica@ons, Internet or games – the media world’s major players are based here: Bertelsmann and the Funke Media Group, Telekom and Vodafone, WDR and RTL, Ubiso, and Electronic Arts. With them, a highly professional and lively scene of crea@ves, producers and service-providers has developed, now numbering a total 414,000 employees, 25,000 companies and 130 billion Euros turnover. An impressive success story, a successful structural change – made in North Rhine-Westphalia.

At the centre is the media metropolis and TV capital Cologne with its unique mixture of tradi@onal and innova@ve, established companies and start-ups, the market leaders of entertainment as well as ambi@ous, interna@onally opera@ng film and TV producers. In addi@on, there are other centres just as vibrant like the adver@sing and fashion stronghold of Düsseldorf or the Ruhr region which has developed into a hotspot for games and Internet startups. On top of this, there are interna@onal trade fairs and media events, a unique higher educa@on landscape with

excellent training courses and, not least of all, an art and cultural scene with world-famous museums, theatres, ballet troupes and concert houses – all this is North Rhine-Westphalia.

Now in its fourth edi@on, the „Media Region North RhineWestphalia“ brochure provides an overall picture of the media and communica@ons industry and compact informa@on about the region. Facts and figures about the most important sectors and the contacts from the world of poli@cs and ins@tu@ons as well as tes@monials from businessmen prove: NRW stands for economic success as well as for innova@on and crea@ve excellence.

The Film- und Mediens@,ung is making its own contribu@on here. It is one of the leading funding ins@tu@ons for film and television in Europe and has consistently opened up to new media. In coopera@on with the Land, new funding instruments were developed for innova@ve and interac@ve content, new networking opportuni@es and communica@on pla?orms created, thus aArac@ng a new kind of aAen@on for a young and cosmopolitan loca@on. Perhaps you are already living and working here, or you would like to become beAer acquainted with the Land and its possibili@es. In both cases, the following pages are highly recommended! Have fun! Petra Müller, CEO Film- und Mediens 5

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Media Harbour Düsseldorf, Gehry Buildings

Media Region NRW Television WDR RTL VOX Super RTL n-tv Phoenix QVC Landesstudios SAT.1 Landesstudio ZDF Landesstudio Radio WDR Deutschlandfunk Deutsche Welle radio NRW Producers Film/Televison ac@on concept Ansager & Schnipselmann AZ Media Brainpool TV Broadview Endemol elsani film Eyeworks Germany filmpool gff Geißendörfer Heima?ilm I&U ITV Studios Germany LiAle Shark Entertainment Lichtblick Film Made In Germany MMC Movies Network Movie Pandora Filmproduk@on Redseven Entertainment Raab TV-Produk@on Seapoint Produc@ons Senator Film Köln Sony Pictures FFP Tresor TV UFA Show & Factual Westside Filmproduk@on Wüste Film West Zeitsprung Pictures Zentropa Interna@onal Köln Zieglerfilm Köln Studios blueBox Studios Cubic Studios infostudios MMC Studios Moviepark Studios nobeo WDR-Studios Köln-Bocklemünd

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Welcome to North Rhine-Westphalia, the federal state of media, communica@ons and the crea@ve industries. With around 18 million inhabitants, NRW is not only the most populous of the German federal states, but it is also one of the most economically powerful metropolitan regions in Europe. The media and communica@ons industry plays a crucial role in this. With 25,000 companies in the media and communica@ons sector (2013), approximately 414,000 employees (2013), and a turnover of 130 billion Euros (2012), the federal state has developed into Germany’s leading media and crea@ve hub and one of the strongest in Europe. An incomparable cultural landscape ensures that the region is aArac@ve and offers a high quality of life as well as produc@ve synergies between media, art and culture that guarantee its crea@vity and innova@ve vitality.

Interna4onally opera4ng media companies

Two global players lead the ranks of the most influen@al media companies in North Rhine-Westphalia. Bertelsmann, the largest media concern in Europe and the number eight in the world, has its headquarters in Gütersloh in East Westphalia. The media giant operates in the following four main business fields in more than 50 countries around the world: television (RTL Group), books (Penguin Random House), magazines (Gruner + Jahr) and media services (arvato). Bertelsmann employs more than 110,000 people globally and posted turnover of 16.4 billion Euros in 2013. The city of Bonn, located some 200 kilometres southwestward from Gütersloh, is home to Deutsche Telekom. With 142.5 million mobile phone customers, 31 million landline

Bertelsmann is based in North Rhine-Westphalia and interna@onally. The media business is experiencing rapid transforma@on. Digitaliza@on and crea@vity find the perfect innova@ve environment to par@cipate in these changes in North Rhine-Westphalia. Thomas Rabe, Chairman of the Board Bertelsmann

and more than 17 million broadband connec@ons, it is one of the world’s market leaders. The company offers products and services for landline telephones, mobile communica@ons, Internet and, increasingly, moving images via IPTV and ICT solu@ons for corporate clients; it has a presence in some 50 countries and has a workforce of 230,000 throughout the world. In 2013, the turnover of Deutsche Telekom amounted to 60.1 billion Euros. The Essen-based Funke Media Group also plays in the inter-na@onal media league. It publishes no figures , but is considered by the industry as one of the most profitable media companies in Germany. Newspapers and magazines are the tradi@onal focus of opera@ons for this company in the heart of the Ruhr region.

Publishers with a future

Along with Bertelsmann and the Funke Media Group, the DuMont Schauberg Media Group, the HandelsblaA newspaper from Düsseldorf and the Ippen Group in Hamm are among the most important na@onal players in the whole of Germany. Nowadays, what used to be classic publishers has now evolved into broad-based, interna@onally ac@ve media corpora@ons facing up to the challenges of new digital distribu@on and aware of how to take advantage of them. The book publishers are also fit for the future. More than 500 publishers from NRW generated a turnover of 3.8 billion Euros in 2012, headed up by the German market leader in the field of hardcover fic@on, Bastei Lübbe, and the renowned publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne.

Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society with infrastructure. We are also a reliable companion in the digital world. Both privately and professionally. Any@me and anywhere. Simplifying and enriching people’s lives – that is our mission. NRW is the home from where we take on this responsibility – also in partnership with the media. Timotheus Hö=ges, CEO Deutsche Telekom

Facts and Figures

Dortmunder U, centre for art and crea 25,000 companies, 414,000 employees, 130 billion Euros turnover > Interna@onally opera@ng media and telecommunica@ons companies > Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Funke > Strong newspaper and book publishing sector > Leading TV broadcasters WDR, RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, Phoenix > Cologne: German TV capital No. 1 > Majority of Germany's leading TV producers in Cologne > Highly professional service-providers > One-third of domes@c television programming produced here > Lively and crea@ve film scene > Financially strong film funding ins@tu@on > Booming games cluster, strong Web scene > Düsseldorf – adver@sing loca@on with the biggest turnover, mobile capital > Diverse art and cultural scene > Highly qualified specialist personnel > Excellent universi@es and colleges

highly popular NRW Scene of the Crime series from Münster, Cologne and Dortmund. The professional and produc@ve environment of North Rhine-Westphalia generates an output unmatched elsewhere: more than a third of the TV programming produced in Germany comes from NRW.

German films and interna4onal star cinema

Cinema from NRW – we are talking about award-winning produc@ons and box office smashes as well as arthouse highlights. Outstanding movies for the cinema have been produced here con@nuously for the past 20 years, including Til Schweiger’s Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Tom Tykwer’s Run, Lola, Run, Sönke Wortmann’s The Miracle of Bern, Michael „Bully“ Herbig’s Manitou’s Shoe, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin!, Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated Pina, Philipp Stölzl’s The Physician, and Margarethe von TroAa’s Hannah Arendt. On top of this, many interna@onal produc@ons benefit from the federal state’s firstclass infrastructure, ideal produc@on condi@ons and a wide variety of unusual loca@ons for shoo@ng. Thanks to the crea@ve and financial input from North Rhine-Westphalia, Michael Haneke (Hidden), Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee) have won Golden Palms in Cannes, Semih Kaplanoglu (Bal) has won a Golden Bear in Berlin, Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) a Golden Lion in Venice, Philip Gröning (Into Great Silence) the European Film Award, Gérard Corbiau (Farinelli) and Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) a Golden Globe each, and Kate Winslet an Oscar. >

The diversity of the aArac@ve media region of NRW is unique in Europe. With its crea@vity and passion for cinema, WDR is an excellent partner for exci@ng and modern projects. This is where risks are taken and experiments carried out. We support the next genera@on of film-makers and media crea@ves and offer them a fer@le home at WDR. Tom Buhrow, Director of WDR

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Postproduc@ons ACT Videoproduk@on ARRI Film & TV Services Chaussee SoundVision cine plus Köln Industriesauger-TV LAVALabs Moving Images PICTORION das werk RuhrSoundStudios digital postproduc@on ScanlineVFX Torus Distribu@on Auten@c Distribu@on The Match Factory media luna new films New Docs Games astragon So,ware Blue Byte Electronic Arts Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13 RTL interac@ve Turtle Entertainment Ubiso, Mobile Coupies E-Plus Ericsson Glanzkinder KIT digital netSTART Venture Nokia Seven Principles RTL interac@ve Sevenval T-Mobile Vodafone WDR mediagroup Internet AdAudience arvato Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler buch.de/bol.de Clipfish.de denkwerk favsol kalaydo.de Pixelpark RTL interac@ve T-Systems Mul@media Solu@ons UFA LAB NRW WDR mediagroup digital

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RTL Group, Cologne

Funke media group, Essen

Media Region NRW Publishers Bertelsmann HandelsblaA Ippen Gruppe M. DuMont Schauberg Rheinische Post Verlagsges. Funke Mediengruppe Book Publishers Bastei Lübbe Emons Verlag Random House Kiepenheuer & Witsch Taschen Verlag Adver@sing/PR Agencies BBDO DDB Tribal Grey Grayling Hering Schuppener Jeschenko Ketchum Pleon McCann Erickson MEC MediaCom Media Concept muehlhausmoers Ogilvy Oliver SchroA Kommunika@on OMD Op@media Publicis Saatchi & Saatchi Scholz & Friends Ströer TBWA Vok Dams Weber Shandwick Zenithmedia Telecommunica@ons Deutsche Telekom Vodafone E-Plus Huawei QSC Ericsson Nokia LG Electronics Samsung Cable & Satellite TV Unitymedia NetCologne Tele Columbus Eutelsat ASTRO Strobel Kommunika@onssysteme

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Radio

NRW's radio sta@ons are at the forefront as well: four of the ten sta@ons with the highest audience figures in Germany come from NRW, including the na@on's No. 1, radio NRW. Large public broadcasters are also based here, headed up by WDR, Germany's largest broadcaster with six FM channels, as well as Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle. Nowhere else in Germany do more listeners tune into their radios, and there is no comparably dense network of public and private sta@ons.

Games, Mobile, Internet, Start-up scene

NRW’s games industry also gets high scores: its turnover is one of the highest in Germany. Electronic Arts and Ubiso,, two of the world’s leading games developers, are based on the banks of the River Rhine; moreover, a quarter of all German games developers and arvato, one of the most important distributors for the domes@c industry, operate from here. The gamescom in Cologne is one of the three biggest games trade fairs worldwide, and young talent in the crea@ve field of game development has access to a wide range of training opportuni@es. An ideal infrastructure is also in place for the new mobile sector that is especially involved in developing apps and benefits from the proximity to all of the market players: apart from the games producers, there are numerous telecommunica@ons companies, crea@ve developers, innova@ve so,ware companies and the top TV sta@ons as content-providers. In total, 40 per cent of the companies involved in the mobile sector in Germany are based in NRW. The Internet indus-

As a media loca@on, NRW is crea@ve, successful, exci@ng, varied and lively. Here you will find the biggest TV and radio broadcasters, more than 40 daily newspaper publishers, more than 10,000 adver@sing companies, and numerous growing start-ups from the games and Internet scene, all next door to each other. That is a very interesting and exci@ng crea@ve pool which generates mutual inspira@on and new ideas! Dr. Angelica Schwall-Düren, Minister of Federal Affairs, Europe and Media

Bertelsmann, Gütersloh

try with such players as Clipfish.de, Kalaydo.de, Mediakra,, RTL interac@ve and WDR mediagroup digital is also highly apprecia@ve of these first-class structures. A crea@ve and confident start-up scene with one of the highest enterprise birth rates in Germany, leading Internet agencies and important associa@ons for the digital economy are addi@onal posi@ve factors for the region.

Music

Music is well posi@oned in NRW. A crea@ve scene in the Rhine-Ruhr Region as well as four state-run music colleges provide the basis. The concentra@on of extraordinary venues is unique within in Europe, aArac@ng major ar@sts from the worlds of pop and classical music. Music companies like Rhingtön, Rough Trade, Al!ve, Medion and Denon operate out of NRW where a total of around 2,400 companies are ac@ve in the music industry, genera@ng around 2 billion Euros per year.

Adver4sing

The top address for the adver@sing and communica@on business is Düsseldorf, Germany's adver@sing hub with the largest turnover. The federal state capital is the base for the largest network agencies BBDO, Grey and Heimat, home to five of the ten biggest media agencies in Germany (incl. MediaCom and OMD), the biggest event agency (Vok Dams) as well as the na@on's second-largest PR agency (Ketchum Pleon). Agencies and crea@ves appreciate the interna@onal character, the large companies and media, the quality of life, and the relaxed combina@on of lifestyle

North Rhine-Westphalia is an aArac@ve loca@on for the crea@ve and cultural industries – and thus also for the media sector. This is where global players, an innova@ve SME sector and a crea@ve, produc@ve start-up scene are working closely together. For NRW offers companies the complete package: brains, capital and coopera@ons .

Garrelt Duin, Minister for Economics, Energy, Industry and Commerce of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia

Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn

and business. In addi@on, the cultural environment provides a strong crea@ve input.

Cables, Connec4ons, Networks

Three of the four German mobile phone operators are based in Bonn and Düsseldorf: Vodafone, T-Mobile and E-Plus. Close to 90 per cent of the mobile phone market in Germany is covered by the companies from NRW. Major ITC companies and leading universi@es are present throughout the whole of NRW. Thanks to its Entertain TV service, Deutsche Telekom has become a player in the cable market which is also well represented in NRW. Unitymedia in Cologne is the second-largest cable network operator in Germany, and NetCologne the largest city carrier. They all benefit in turn from the presence of the leading content providers.

Events and Awards

With so many professionals from the fields of media, communica@on and crea@vity being located in NRW, there is also a need for communica@on pla?orms and industry events. A permanent fixture in the calendar for all in the media industry is the Media Forum NRW in Cologne. In 2014, it was staged for the first @me in coopera@on with the conference for ANGA COM, Europe's leading trade fair for cable, broadband and satellite. Each year, the Media Forum is a venue for thought leaders from film, television, radio, print, games, telecommunica@ons and media policy to come together and exchange views. The gamescom is one of the most important interna@onal trade fairs for

I put my faith in the media loca@on NRW because it is so diverse, so exci@ng, so crea@ve and so challenging. It never gets boring here because things are moving all the @me.

Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier, Director State Media Authority of NRW

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Film

Rush

German films and interna4onal star cinema Pina Director: Wim Wenders Prod cos: Neue Road Movies, Eurowide Produc@on (F), ZDF, ZDF Theaterkanal, Arte

Rush Director: Ron Howard Prod cos: ac@on concept, Egoli Tossell Film New, New Revolu@on Films (GB), Cross Creek (US) With Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Russell Crowe u.a.

Stromberg – Der Film Director: Arne Feldhusen Prod cos: Brainpool TV With Christoph Maria Herbst, Bjarne Mädel, Oliver K. Wnuk u.a.

Cloud Atlas Directors: Tom Tykwer, Andy & Lana Wachowski Prod cos: A Company, X Filme, Anarchos Produc@on, Degeto Film With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent u.a.

Producers 2Pilots Filmproduk@on 58FILME ac@on concept Ani Magix Media aquafilm Arepo Media augenschein Filmproduk@on Bavaria Fernsehproduk@on, Niederlassung Köln Belle Epoque Films Bilderstumm Fimproduk@on Blinker Filmproduk@on Boogiefilm Broadview TV Busse & Halberschmidt CAMEO Film- und Fernsehproduk@on Cinema Ergo Sum Filmproduk@on COINFILM Conradfilm D&D Film & Fernsehproduk@on dagstar film Dubini Filmproduk@on

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The success stories of the film The Physician (round about 3 million german movie audience) and Cloud Atlas (1.1 million movie audience in Germany) as well Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von TroAa (465,000 German admissions, more than 300,000 in France, 1.2 million Dollars US boxoffice) and Pina by Wim Wenders (500,000 German cinema admissions, more than 3 million Dollars US box office, Oscar nomina@on) say a lot about the quality of North RhineWestphalia as a produc@on loca@on: Von TroAa and Wenders are just two of many world-class directors who have turned their stories into great cinema with the help of the region’s skilled labour and first-class studios. Most recently, Ron Howard, Lars von Trier, Jim Jarmusch, Sam Garbarski, Tom Tykwer and XavierKoller were among the directors shoo@ng their films here. And they were supported by the Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW.

Financially strong regional film funder

The Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW has been opera@ng since 1991 as a reliable partner for the film industry for financing and strategic coopera@on. It supports films for cinema and television in all phases of produc@on and exploita@on: from story development through screenwri@ng and produc@on to distribu@on and sales. It has supported around 1,800 film produc@ons with a total of 580 million Euros during the past 24 years. Alongside the state of North RhineWestphalia, the shareholders include WDR, ZDF, RTL as well as the regional media authority, Landesanstalt für Medien NRW. Based at the media harbour in Düsseldorf, the Film- und Mediens@,ung has an annual funding budget of around I have made three films in NRW over the last ten years, gathering shoo@ng experience in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Essen and other places in the Ruhr region, and working a lot with local crews, and I can only say one thing: things are never made this easy anywhere else! And it is simply amazing what fantas@c loca@ons you can find in NRW. Wim Wenders, director and ar About 1,000 movie shoo@ng days per year > 34,000 workers in the film and TV industry > 4,000 companies from the film and TV industry > First-class infrastructure from produc@on to post-produc@on > Highly qualified specialist personnel > Large variety of unusual shoo@ng loca@ons > Award-winning and highly popular produc@ons for the cinema > Lively cinema culture: the largest number of screens (860) in Germany > Varied fes@val scene > Film-Messe Köln, Film & Cinema Conference NRW, German Camera Award, Filmpreis Köln

If you ever get the chance to shoot here, do it.

Dame Helen Mirren, actress, 2010, during the shoonger

Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen

Caroline Peters

Jan Boehmermann

G. Alsmann & C. Westermann

Television

Dieter Nuhr

Germany’s number one television loca4on

Broadcasters WDR RTL RTL Nitro VOX Super RTL n-tv Phoenix Landesstudios SAT.1 Landesstudio ZDF Landesstudio

TV Providers/ Special Interest Channels BonGusto Collec@on Dctp.tv Dügün TV Kanal Avrupa RTL Crime RTL Passion RTL Living Türk Show TV Persia1 Einsfes@val Teleshopping QVC Pali Türk Shop MediaSpar TV

Regional Windows RTL West SAT.1 17.30 Live aus Dortmund

Regional/ Local Broadcasters NRW.TV Center.tv CityVision Studio 47 wm.tv

Producers 20:15 a&0 büro filmproduk@on Ac@on Concept Ansager & Schnipselmann augenschein AZ Media Badini Bantry Bay Produc@ons blue tandem filmproduc@on coconut media

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North Rhine-Westphalia has been Germany’s undisputed No. 1 TV hub for around 20 years, and it is set to increase in the future. This is where the major channels are located, this is home to the most important producers supplying all of the TV sta@ons na@onwide: one-third of all the TV minutes produced in Germany comes from NRW.

WDR

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Europe’s biggest public broadcaster and the largest sta@on in the ARD network, has its headquarters in the heart of Cologne’s city centre. WDR not only produces around 22 per cent of the programming for ARD’s joint schedules in Das Erste, but also provides content for the KI.KA children’s channel, the Arte cultural channel, the Phoenix documentary channel as well as the 3sat cultural channel and ARD’s digital services. In 2012, the largest ARD sta@on spent 85.7 million Euros on commissioned produc@ons and co-produc@ons. A good Two-thirds (67 per cent) of WDR's commissions to producers went to North Rhine-Westphalia. WDR’s most successful formats include the Sportschau, the ARD Morgenmagazin, Monitor, Menschen bei Maischberger, hart aber fair, DiAsche and the Tatorte from NRW. Moreover, with its produc@on complex in the Cologne suburb of Bocklemünd, the broadcaster is also an important address for German TV entertainment – this is where shows like Frag doch mal die Maus and Hirschhausens Quiz des Menschen are made as well as such chat show formats as Kölner Treff, Domian and Zimmer frei.

RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, RTL Nitro

Germany’s most successful commercial television is produced today in Cologne's Rheinhallen. Over 20 million viewers WDR is an important part of NRW. Every day, we are looking for ideas of how to best inform and entertain the people in the region. This isn't possible without a vibrant and diverse produc@on landscape. We want to share ideas with the producers and be the first address for crea@ve minds.

Jörg Schönenborn, Director Television WDR

tune in each day to RTL’s schedules. RTL has been the clear market leader for younger viewers for 20 years in a row. The channel is always seCng new standards the produc@on of light entertainment with such formats as Idol, I’m a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here!, Got Talent, Let’s Dance. New ideas are also regularly developed in the field of documentaries with such programmes as Team Wallraff and Das Jenke-Experiment. RTL’s sister channel Vox also provides important impetus for the development of entertainment with such formats as X Factor, Die Promi-Kocharena, Come Dine with me, Shopping Queen and Der Hundeprofi – Mar Germany’s number one TV hub for around 20 years > One of the biggest TV hubs in Europe > WDR, RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, Phoenix > QVC: Germany’s market leader for teleshopping > Cologne: Germany’s undisputed TV capital > One-third of domes@c television programming minutes produced here > As many TV minutes as Bavaria and Berlin put together > Germany’s top three TV producers based in Cologne > Broad spectrum: entertainment, shows, series, comedy, sitcoms > First-class studio structure > MMC: one of the biggest state-of-the-art studio complexes in Europe > German Television Award, Grimme Award, German Comedy Award, German Camera Award

Endemol Germany

The same applies to Endemol Deutschland which, as part of the Dutch Endemol Group, produces such formats as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, The Quiz Show as well as the reality show Big Brother for the past 14 years. With its headquarters in Cologne, the company has also set new trends in comedy on all the channels in recent years with such popular formats as the Kaya Yanar Show as well as new developments like Comedians At Work, The Wiwaldi Show and Circus Halligalli with Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf. > Television s@ll con@nues to fascinate people. Here in Cologne, a lot of the kind of programming is produced that excites and entertains the viewers. We are grateful for the fact that we are able to work and live in such a crea@ve and innova@ve environment. Claude Schmit, Managing Director Super RTL

It is especially pleasing that the interna@onal importance of North Rhine-Westphalia as a TV produc@on loca@on is increasing. Not only the leading shows, but also the most successful varia@ons of German formats are coming from Cologne. Ute Biernat, CEO UFA Show and Factual

NRW, and Cologne in par@cular, are something like the headquarters of the German TV entertainment sector: broadcasters, producers, service-providers and studio operators are all based here. There is no beAer infrastructure for ac@on-filled prime-@me shows and big media events in Europe. Jörg Grabosch, Managing partner BRAINPOOL TV

Daniel Hartwich

Kaya Yanar

Anne=e Frier

Producers Berengar Pfahl Bildersturm Bildundtonfabrik Boekamp & Kriegsheim Bonito TV Boundless Produc@ons Brainpool TV Broadview TV Busse & Halberschmidt Calypso Entertainment colourfield DFA Dor Film E+U-TV edie film eitelsonnenschein ELKON WEST Elsani Film EM+Cox encanto Endemol Deutschland Engs?eld Film Er,tal Ester.Reglin.Film Eyeworks Germany Farbfilmfreunde FFP New Media Film Bou@que Filmgeschwister Film-Manufaktur filmpool Florianfilm Fruitmarket Gebr. Beetz Köln gff Geißendörfer gilles:mann Good Times Fernsehproduk@on greensky FILMS Gruppe 5 HMR Produk@on Horizont TV Hupe Film i&u TV info Network ini@alfilm TV Media ITV Studios Germany Karibufilm Kigali Films Kromschröder & Pfannenschmidt Lichtblick Film Lich?ilm loekenfranke LoreAa Walz Luman@k Film

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Stefan Raab

Television Producers Made in Germany Filmproduk@on mali BiggerThanLife Produc@ons mediafields megaherz Michael Meert Molina Film Network Movie Norddeich TV Orangefilm Polarlicht Power-Toons Prime Produc@ons probono Propeller Film Pro TV PuppetEmpire Raab TV Redseven Entertainment RheinFilm rockinvasion Rowboat sagamedia Seapoint Produc@on Shine Germany Shuto Entertainment Skarabäus Sonfilm Sony Pictures FFP spin tv SUR Films Sutor Kolonko Tacker Film Taglicht Media Tag/Traum television & more Tentakel.TV thevissen filmproduk@on Tof Intermedia Tresor TV Troika Entertainment Turtle Entertainment tvision UFA Fic@on UFA Serial Drama UFA Show and Factual Uhland Film Visual Bridges AG Wellenreiter.tv WestCom Medien Wiedemann & Berg Film Winkelmann Zeitsprung Pictures Zieglerfilm Köln Zinnober Film

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Anke Engelke

UFA Show and Factual

UFA Show and Factual (formerly Grundy Light Entertainment) is a key supplier of programming for German prime@me television behind such show formats as Got Talent, Idol and Farmer wants A Wife. Unlike any other company in Germany, it has played a unique role in shaping the genre of cas@ng shows. As a part of the worldwide leader Fremantle Media, UFA Show and Factual has access to an extensive interna@onal network.

Sony Pictures and Shine Germany

The German outpost of Sony Pictures in Cologne is also at home in the world of comedy. Sketch formats like Sechserpack, 4 Singles and Böse Mädchen are part of the company’s repertoire. In the area of shows, Sony Pictures is responsible for Die Höhle des Löwen on Vox, WDR’s eternally popular NRW Duell and Teddy’s Show with the YouTube star Tedros Teclebrhan on ZDFneo. The Shine Group has also been present in Cologne since 2009 with Shine Germany, producing shows like Minute to Win It and Got To Dance at the MMC studios in Cologne-Ossendorf.

Brainpool

NRW is also the breeding ground for important local producers. For instance, Brainpool with its headquarters in Cologne-Mülheim has developed since its establishment in 1994 from a classic producer into an all-embracing entertainment network which is not only responsible for major shows like Beat your Host (sold to 13 territories worldwide), the TV total events (including the TV total Turmspringen, sold to 12 territories worldwide) and staging

NRW – it represents a luxury dilemma: everything is right on your doorstep, including an audience of 18 million that has no objec@on to seeing its own region on film. I ask myself why anyone would shoot anywhere else … ? We certainly like shoo@ng here, and nothing is going to change that. Thanks to the Films@,ung for its enduring support, which makes the loca@on ul@mately unique. Leopold Hoesch, CEO, broadview pictures

Bas 507 book publishers – 3.8 billion Euros turnover > Bastei Lübbe: Germany’s market leader for hardcover/fic@on > 1,333 bookshops, more than 350 libraries > Thalia and Mayersche: the number one and four among the bookstore chains > Respected university courses in journalism at Münster and Dortmund, among others

such authors as Dan Brown and Ken FolleA. In 2012/13, the publishing house posted turnover of 98.3 million Euros and acquired new companies, including the Frankfurtbased Eichborn-Verlag. Taschen Verlag from Cologne rose to prominence by making affordable art books, and regularly aAracts aAen@on with spectacular edi@ons. Illustrated coffee table books are also the core business of Peter Hammer Verlag in Wuppertal and Coppenrath Verlag in Münster. When it comes to the number of bookstores, NRW leads the field within Germany with 1,133, ahead of Bavaria (831) and Baden-WürAemberg (740). Germany’s biggest bookstore chain, Thalia, is a subsidiary of the Hagenbased Douglas Holding. With almost 300 bookshops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Thalia is the market leader in the retail book trade for the German-speaking countries and combines the bookseller's tradi@on with a varied digital and online range of services in e-commerce (4,492 employees, around 984 million Euros turnover in 2012). Aachen is the headquarters of the Mayersche Buchhandlung chain which currently operates more than 40 outlets. Around 1,000 employees and a turnover of 165 million Euros in 2013 make it Germany’s fourthlargest chain of bookshops.

drupa and digi:media

The drupa, the world’s largest trade fair for print media, has been held in Düsseldorf every three to five years since 1951. It is regarded as the most important show of achievements in the prin@ng and printed media industry, boas@ng 1,850 exhibitors and 314,500 professional delegates from more than 130 countries in 2012. That year saw drupa celebra@ng a premiere by also hos@ng digi:media, a fair for commercial publishing and digital prin@ng which had been ini@ated in 2011.

Handelsbla=, Düsseldorf

Newspapers WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Westdeutsche Zeitung Wes?alen-BlaA Wes?alenpost Wes?älische Nachrichten Wes?älische Rundschau Wes?älischer Anzeiger

Book publishers Bastei Lübbe Buchhandlung Walther König Bundesanzeiger Verlagsgesellscha, BVK Buch Verlag Kempen Coppenrath-Verlag Droste Verlag Dumont Buchverlag Egmont Verlagsgesellscha,en Emons Verlag Fachverlag der Verlagsgruppe HandelsblaA Grafit Verlag Greven Verlag Köln Gütersloher Verlagshaus Verlagsgruppe Random House Harenberg Kommunika@on Heel Verlag Karl Rauch Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch Kölner Universitätsverlag Peter Hammer Verlag Rahmel-Verlag Taschen Verlag VDI Verlag Verlag J. P. Bachem Verlag Kölner Dom W. Bertelsmann Verlag Wienand Verlag Wolters Kluwer Deutschland Contacts [email protected] www.medien.nrw.de

lit.Cologne: Europe’s biggest reading event

lit.Cologne has made reading into a popular event for the past 14 years. The programme of this literature fes@val in Cologne combines classic literary readings with theatre and cabaret as well as discussions. In 2014, the 196 individual events aAracted over 101,000 visitors, establishing lit.Cologne as the biggest fes@val of reading in Europe. < Publishers > 25

Labels/Publishers Century Media Records Feez Unterhaltungsgesellscha, Inside Out Music JazzSick Records JKP – Jochens Kleine PlaAenfirma Kompakt Le Pop Musik Limited Access Records Mel@ng Pot Music Meyer Records Normal Records Rhingtön Roof Music Selfmade Records Stockhausen-Verlag Tumbleweed Records Unique Records Wolverine Records Distributors Al!ve Cargo Records Delta Music GoodToGo (Groove AAack & Rough Trade) H’Art Musik India Media Group Trade/E-Commerce alphamusic.de buch.de bol.de c-tube Medion Metro AG Zebralu@on Digital Music Distribu@on

Concert Halls/Clubs Esprit Arena Düsseldorf E-Werk Köln FZW Dortmund Gebäude 9 ISS Dome Jahrhunderthalle Bochum König-Pilsener-Arena Oberhausen Konzerthaus Dortmund Lanxess-Arena Köln Live Music Hall Luxor Köln Mitsubishi Electric Hall Palladium Philharmonie Essen Philharmonie Köln RheinEnergieStadion Köln Stahlwerk Düsseldorf Starlight Express Halle Bochum Turbinenhalle Oberhausen Underground Köln Vel@ns Arena Gelsenkirchen Wes?alenhallen Dortmund Zakk Düsseldorf Zeche Bochum Zeche Carl

Concert Promoters Concert Team NRW Contra Promo@on Dirk Becker Entertainment E. L. Hartz Konzertbüro Schoneberg Peter Rieger Konzertagentur Prime Entertainment Roland Temme Gruppe

Events 1LIVE Krone Acht Brücken c/o pop Fes@val Cologne Music Week Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Haldern Pop

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Herbert Grönemeyer

Music

Die Toten Hosen

Hand-made, electronic, digital

North Rhine-Westphalia is among Germany’s most important music hubs. It is home to around 20 per cent of all the businesses in the industry, together achieving almost a third of the total music-related turnover with 1.96 billion Euros. The German music market, the world's third largest a,er the USA and Japan, is, on the one hand, no@ceably moving over to online distribu@on and, on the other, con@nuing to focus on live entertainment. In both areas, NRW is well-posi@oned with successful projects and companies.

Great pop history

Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the world's most influen@al composers of the 20th century, experimented in Cologne from the 1950’s onwards, especially with electronic music, and is regarded as the founder of Electronica. Right through to the present day, he has con@nued to inspire the scene on the Rhine: from Cologne avantgarde band Can and Düsseldorf Electronica pioneers Kra,werk through the interna@onally known Cologne label Kompakt with its Sound of Cologne to techno producers like Moguai from Marl. Furthermore, Bands like Fehlfarben and Die Toten Hosen come from Düsseldorf, BAP rocks successfully in the Cologne dialect of “Kölsch”, Alphaville from Münster influenced synth pop, Nena from Hagen helped shape the Neue Deutsche Welle, and the WDR Big Band performs with some of the world’s leading jazz ar@sts. While Herbert Grönemeyer has been filling arenas and stadiums for decades, current ar@sts like Gentleman from Cologne, Casper from Bielefeld, Kollegah from Düsseldorf and the Aachen band Unheilig with frontman Der Graf enthuse millions. Not to forget that there has been a lively hard rock and heavy metal scene in the Rhine and Ruhr region The first studio for electronic music in the world was located in Cologne, and, in 1928, the Pressa took place, an event for communica@ons technology that laid the founda@on stone for today’s media loca@on. This conflic@ng sphere of culture and business s@ll makes up the city’s assets to this day.

Norbert Oberhaus, CEO c/o pop

for decades with such interna@onally known bands and ar@sts as Accept, Doro, Kreator, Sodom or U.D.O. Composers for the cinema and television also profit from the proximity to the TV sta@ons and producers.

Strong distribu4on and labels

The distribu@on landscape in NRW is similarly diverse: the former major EMI retains a presence in Cologne with the label Rhingtön following its takeover by Universal Music. Several of the leading independent distributors also operate successfully from NRW. The Cologne-based Groove AAack, for example, has a reputa@on as being the most important independent hip-hop distributor in the Federal Republic. Together with the distribu@on company Rough Trade Records which it took over in 2008, Groove AAack is now one of the largest independent distributors in Europe. Its logis@cs opera@on has been taken over by arvato AG, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann from Gütersloh and, interna@onally, one of the largest media service-providers (4.4 billion Euros turnover in 2013). Based in Dortmund, Century Media Records is one of the world’s best-known and most successful labels in the heavy metal genre. Other distributors, like Al!ve and H’Art Musik, as well as hundreds of small publishers and labels contribute to the character of NRW as a centre of the music industry and account for nearly a quarter of the total business for this sector in Germany.

From Saturn to simfy

On July 1, 1961, the first Saturn-Markt opened on Hansaring in Cologne. 53 years later, the company is one of the leading players in the European home electronics retail business with more than 220 branches in six countries I was born in Cologne and the city’s electronic scene provided me with some important influences: like the band Can, for example, Stockhausen’s pupil Holger Czukay, who taught me how to produce my own composi@ons, or Jaki Liebezeit, my teacher in maAers of instant composing… Helmut Zerle=, musician, composer and producer

Facts and Figures > Strong crea@ve scene > 2,400 companies in the music business > GoodToGo, Century Media Records, Al!ve, Medion, Denon, and others > 20 per cent of music companies in Germany > the largest number of out-of-the-ordinary venues in Europe > Four state colleges of music > c/o pop Fes@val, 1LIVE Krone, Ruhrtriennale, Haldern Pop, Juicy Beats, Open Source > German Music Council, Associa@on of German Musicians, “Jedem Kind ein Instrument” Founda@on

Kra)werk

plus an online shop. The Media-Saturn holding is a subsidiary of the Düsseldorf-based Metro Group, which is one of the interna@onally most successful retail groups pos@ng 66.7 billion Euros turnover in 2012/13. Apart from these tradi@onally generated revenues with music and home entertainment from such companies as Essen’s Medion AG and the Rewe Group, new areas of focus have been developed. In 2012, about 50 per cent of the music revenues were generated via Internet-based forms of distribu@on. Some innova@ve models have also succeeded in establishing themselves in the rapidly growing online market outside the classic mail-order business (incl. buch.de/bol.de from Münster), and the pure digital retail models (incl. Nokia Music Store Ovi from Ra@ngen). For example, Düsseldorf’s Zebralu@on has become one of the world’s leading digital distributors for independent labels.

Live Entertainment

Alongside the increasing music sales on the internet, the German concert and event market represents another flourishing segment of the music industry. NRW with its 18 million inhabitants has a significant share of this due to the large regional market. Numerous mul@-func@onal arenas from Cologne to Dortmund with sea@ng for up to 70,000 people provide space for spectacular concerts – as do converted industrial monuments, countless halls, classical music venues and clubs with a unique atmosphere. For decades now, major promoters such as the Peter Rieger concert agency from Cologne and Dirk Becker Entertainment have been deligh@ng millions of fans with tours by interna@onal stars. Fes@vals and concert series such as the Ruhrtriennale, Summer Jam, the awards ceremony for For me as a na@ve of Cologne, the Rhineland has always been the cultural humus on which my own crea@vity has also thrived. The region's decades-old art and music scene has to this day never lost any of its myth and interna@onal reputa@on. NRW is on a par here with New York, London and Berlin.

the 1LIVE Krone Award, and the fes@val organised by Rock Hard magazine in Gelsenkirchen are audience highlights. In 2012, Germany’s biggest concert impresario, Marek Lieberberg from Frankfurt, established a new fes@val in the region: Rock im PoA, was staged at Schalke’s football stadium. Moreover, the interna@onal c/o pop fes@val in Cologne with the associated business forum c/o pop Conven@on provides s@mulus for the whole industry each year.

First-class educa4on

NRW demonstrates its excep@onal commitment for the next genera@on of musical talent with its educa@onal ini@a@ve called An Instrument For Every Child (Jedem Kind ein Instrument), launched in 2007. But the opportuni@es for further musical educa@on are also first-class, including four state music academies in Cologne, Detmold, Düsseldorf and Essen as well as the German Pop Academy doAed throughout the whole federal state. A Bachelor's degree in the field of Audio Engineering is offered by the private SAE Ins@tute at its campuses in Cologne and Bochum. < I feel so at home in Cologne because there's interna@onal flair here, but it's cozy nonetheless. I value the Rhineland's mentality and the humour. I like the directness and honesty. It's easy to get into conversa@on with people. Gentleman, musician

I can only hope that the Media State NRW will soon come to an agreement on how to protect the rights of authors, as common decency demands. Wolfgang Niedecken, BAP

Der Graf, Goldene Kamera 2013

Events Ambient Fes@val Juicy Beats Kunst!Rasen Bonn Moers Fes@val Open Source Fes@val Rock Hard Fes@val Rock am Ring Ruhr in Love Ruhr Reggae Summer Ruhrtriennale SoundTrack_Cologne Summer Jam SummerStage Vainstream Week-End Fes@val Zel?es@val Ruhr

Associa@ons/Networks Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien Deutsche Disc-Jockey Organisa@on Klubkomm – Verband Kölner Clubs und Veranstalter Deutscher Musikrat Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband Gesamtverband Deutscher Musikfachgeschä,e media music – Berufsverband Medienmusik e.V. S@,ung Jedem Kind ein Instrument Verband deutscher Musikschaffender Verband deutscher Musikschulen Verband deutscher Tonmeister Film Music Markus Aust Dürbeck & Dohmen MaAhias Hornschuh Stephen Keusch Carsten Rocker Rossenbach/van Volxem Andreas Schäfer Andreas Schilling Arno Steffen Songbureau Helmut ZerleA Contacts [email protected]

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Adver@sing Agencies Adiro Antwerpes BBDO bplusd Brand Lounge BuAer DDB Tribal Denkwerk Eggert Geometry Global Düsseldorf Gramm Werbeagentur Grey Grey Healthcare Havas Worldwide Düsseldorf Irlenkäuser Klautzsch und Grey KNSK West McCann Erickson m/e brand communica@on MetaDesign Düsseldorf Ogilvy RTS Rieger Team Saatchi & Saatchi Sahler Sapient Scholz & Friends Ströer TBWA WRWunited

PR Agencies Barbarella CP/Compartner Crossrela@ons Jeschenko KAIKOM Ketchum Pleon Kohl PR Komm.passion KOOB Media Concept muehlhausmoers PR agentur deutz Public Vision Weber Shandwick

Event Agencies Avantgarde BBDO Live concept X De Vries + Partners Do it! Domset face to face facts+fic@on gestalt communica@ons Gorol & Partner Grass Roots Hagen Invent Imagepeople livewelt jaeger + haeckerhase Knör! Media & Events Lieblingsagentur mu:d Stagg & Friends Team ProMo@on The Event People Uniplan Vogelsänger Event Vok Dams

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Advertising Crea4vity meets business

When it comes to adver@sing and communica@on is concerned, North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the industry’s centres in Germany. Important concerns with large adver@sing and communica@ons budgets, including eight DAX companies such as Bayer, E.ON, Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post, are based here. As a result, 5.93 bn Euro, 40 per cent of the na@onal turnover in the adver@sing market, is generated in NRW. The Land of NRW has more than 25,000 employees in the adver@sing sector registered to pay na@onal insurance contribu@ons. And almost 10,000 freelancers and companies in the adver@sing market – agencies, adver@sing designers, communica@on designers – means that every fourth company in this sector in Germany comes from NRW.

Powerful adver4sing hub: Düsseldorf

Whether it is Metro, E.ON, Henkel, Vodafone, E-Plus or C&A: the many successful industrial and service companies in NRW represent an aArac@ve customer base for around 1,000 companies in the adver@sing and communica@ons industry of the regional capital. With its unique ambience between business, fashion and art, Düsseldorf has developed a crea@ve infrastructure which has had an especially posi@ve effect on the adver@sing sector: sound studios, film produc@on companies, model agencies, photographers, designers, trade fair construc@on companies, printers – everything that is needed for successful communica@ons is available locally. The sector is also closely connected with the film and music industries, television and radio sta@ons, online providers, and the fashion and art scenes. At the BBDO Directors Lounge, for example, adver@sing We have been based in NRW since 1956. With good reason: Düsseldorf is one of the leading German centres of adver@sing with a strong business environment. And there are numerous TV and media companies in neighbouring Cologne. The region stands for communica@on and, at the same @me, for a lively art and cultural scene. All of this aAracts crea@ve talent. This is an environment in which we can work successfully.

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Frank Lotze, CEO BBDO Germany

Brandt-zwieback

execu@ves, directors and musicians meet three @mes a year to network. NRW’s capital is the bas@on of such network agencies as BBDO, Grey, DDB and TBWA, who belong to globally opera@ng adver@sing and media concerns, and it is also the home for many medium-sized and smaller agencies managed by their owners. Consequently, Düsseldorf has occupied the pole posi@on in the list of the na@on’s adver@sing hubs for the last 17 years in a row.

BBDO

BBDO Germany – with its HQ in Düsseldorf – is Germany’s largest agency group with more than 6,100 employees and the No.1 in the German adver@sing market in terms of turnover and crea@ve power. It was established in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1956 under the name “Team” and has been part of BBDO Worldwide, one of the world’s most successful network agencies, since the 1970s. Subsidiaries like BBDO Proximity, Interone, Peter Schmidt Group, OMG, Sellbytel, BaAen & Company and Ketchum Pleon work under the banner of BBDO Germany. The agency group covers every area of communica@ons and handles such clients as BMW, Braun, Con@nental, DHL, Dr. Oetker, Iglo, LBS, Linde Group, Mars, Mercedes Benz, Postbank, Smart, Sky, Wrigley and Yello Strom. Na@onally and interna@onally, BBDO is one of the most frequently awarded agency groups in Germany. Together with the University of Neuss, BBDO Düsseldorf has developed the joint Bachelor’s programme in Marke@ng and Communica@ons Management, which is unique in the adver@sing industry and is set to begin in the Winter Term 2014/15.

There is no other town where the interac@on of crea@vity, lifestyle, interna@onality and business is as good as in Düsseldorf. The regional capital offers everything that an adver@sing agency needs in order to be able to work successfully: the openness of the people, a good media landscape, a wide range of cultural ac@vi@es and, not to forget, the central loca@on with an excellent connec@on to the neighbouring countries and the European markets. Dickjan Poppema, CEO Grey Deutschland

Facts and Figures > 5.93 bn Euro turnover in NRW > 40 per cent of the German adver@sing market > more than 20,000 employees > 10,000 freelancers and companies > Düsseldorf is the loca@on with the highest adver@sing turnover in Germany > Headquarters of the biggest network agencies BBDO, Grey and Publicis > Headquarters of the two biggest German media agencies MediaCom and OMD > Headquarters of the biggest German event agencies: Vok Dams in Wuppertal and Uniplan in Cologne > Germany’s second largest PR agency: Ketchum Pleon > Cologne as a centre of successful public rela@ons ac@vi@es > Highly respected training and qualifica@on ins@tu@ons

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Grey

Grey Deutschland is one of the Top 3 most successful agencies in Düsseldorf and employs around 350 staff. Campaigns for such well-known brands as Allianz, Deichmann, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble and Seat originate from Grey’s headquarters at Platz der Ideen 1 in the regional capital of North Rhine-Westphalia. The adver@sing agency also has a local visibility with crea@ve solu@ons for Düsseldorf Airport and the city’s “Schauspielhaus” theatre.

Publicis

The Publicis Groupe is the third largest communica@ons network in the world. The Publicis Groupe has its Shared Services Center Re:Sources in Düsseldorf and operates there with the media agency group ZenithOp@media and the agency Saatchi & Saatchi. They handle such clients as Toyota, Lexus, Marriot, SchoA Solar, Signal Iduna and Vaillant. Moreover, the Düsseldorf-based VivaKi Group with the ZenithOp@media media network belongs to Publicis.

Ogilvy

The Düsseldorf office of Ogilvy was launched in 1981 with around ten employees. The company has since grown to around 250 staff based on the banks of the Rhine, handling classical adver@sing as well as being responsible, among other things, for PR, e-commerce and digital media. Ogilvy Düsseldorf is also the creator of na@onal and interna@onal campaigns for such brands as Dove, Ford, LäAa, Du darfst, Aral, Cremissimo, Provinzial and Fujifilm.

NRW is Germany's media hub No. 1 and is characterised by interna@onally opera@ng companies, market-leading TV sta@ons and important trade fairs like the dmexco. In addi@on, Düsseldorf is home to the three biggest media agency networks and the adver@sing hub with the highest turnover. Ma=hias Dang, CEO IP Deutschland

DDB Tribal

DDB Tribal Düsseldorf belongs to the DDB Tribal Group with offices in Germany and Austria and is part of the DDB network. The first DDB office outside of the USA opened for business in 1962 and has helped shape NRW’s adver@sing scene with many top crea@ves. Many mul@-awardwinning crea@ve solu@ons for well-known brands such as Henkel, Schwarzkopf, RamazzoC, Diesel, Congstar and eBay have been created right in the centre of the regional capital at the Berliner Allee.

MediaCom, OMD, Ketchum Pleon, Vok Dams

Not only adver@sing agencies, but other kinds of communica@ons service companies feel very much at home in NRW. Five of the ten biggest German media agencies are based in Düsseldorf, including MediaCom and OMD in the first two places. The na@on's second largest PR agency Ketchum Pleon, a BBDO subsidiary, also operates from the regional capital. Cologne has also seen many agencies – par@cularly in the field of public rela@ons – making a name for themselves on a na@onal level. They include Oliver SchroA, Ergo, Jeschenko, muehlhausmoers, BrunoMedia and Weber Shandwick. The top spot amongst the German event agencies has been occupied by Vok Dams for the past 12 years. In 2013,the Wuppertal-based agency posted a na@onal turnover of fees of 25.7m Euro. The second place in the turnover ranking is taken by Uniplan in Cologne with 21.7m Euro. <

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Media Agencies MediaCom OMD MEC Zenithmedia Op@media

Training Ecosign Köln FH Aachen FH des MiAelstandes Bielefeld FH Dortmund FH Düsseldorf FH Münster FH Südwes?alen Soest Folkwang HS Essen HS Hamm-Lippstadt HS Niederrhein Köln Interna@onal School of Design Kölner Design Akademie Krea@vkader Düsseldorf Macromedia Köln Mediadesign HS Düsseldorf Rheinische FH Köln Universität Bielefeld Universität Wuppertal

Associa@ons FAMAB Verband Direkte Wirtscha,skommunika@on, Rheda-Wiedenbrück

BVDW Bundesverband Digitale Wirtscha,, Düsseldorf POSMA POS Marke@ng Associa@on, Essen Deutscher Marke@ng-Verband, Düsseldorf Networks BBDO Regielounge Marke@ng-Club Düsseldorf

The ci@es of Düsseldorf and Cologne stand for a unique and exci@ng mixture of art and culture, architecture, fashion, media, communica@on and adver@sing. The resul@ng release of crea@ve energy combined with the prevailing zest for life here make the hub so aArac@ve for companies and employees.

Contacts [email protected] www.medien.nrw.de

Thomas Hinkel, CEO OMD Düsseldorf

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Game Developers 2Up Mobile 42 DP addmore games App+Mobile Aruba Studios BigBlackBlock Gamestudio bigitec GmbH b-Interak@ve Blue Byte Brainseed Factory Bright Future Bumblebee Crene@c Studios DAEDALIC Entertainment Destrax Entertainment Dot8 Studio Egoso, Eurosimtec Flying Sheep Studios Frame6 Funa@cs So,ware Gamelo, Gaming Minds Studios Grey Rook Entertainment Hammer Labs Independent Arts So,ware Innogames Joindots Kaasa Health Kaasa Solu@ons KaiserGames Konzeptzwei m2p entertainment mobiven@on Neopoly Nurogames Outline Development peîra Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13 RockAByte Silent Dreams Silent Future Snowstep Development Space@me SpinBoAle Games Springwald So,ware Sunlight Games takomat The Good Evil Triboot Technologies Ubiso, Blue Byte Virtual Playgrounds VIS Games and Entertainment Zone 2 Connect Z-So,ware

Game Publishers Aeroso, ad tronic So,ware & Services astragon So,ware bhv Publishing Crene@c Publishing Electronic Arts Headup Games Nokia OnlineFußballManager rondomedia Marke@ng & Vertrieb RTL interac@ve Ubiso, Service Providers Aruba Events AWWW Design Cen@grade comixfactory Cubicity Daywalker Studios Effec@ve Media elevenmedia Eye Rock Media Fendtasy Freelancer Games Gnomdesign GreenMamba-Studios Instance Four Michael Filipowski Mobile Game Design

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FIFA 13

Games

Germany’s most successful games hub A crea@ve games scene has seAled in the Rhine and Ruhr region, ini@ated by a number of pioneers whose success story began here in the 1980s. Par@cularly in the Ruhr metropolis, the turnover of the so,ware and games industry has increased by more than 120 per cent between 2001 and 2007. From market leaders to award-winning avantgarde designers, the industry has a diversified and successful structure now: It made NRW into Germany’s financially strongest games hub in 2011.

Electronic Arts and Ubiso"

One of the leading interna@onal companies in the field of interac@ve entertainment so,ware, Electronic Arts, has its headquarters in Cologne’s Rheinauhafen from where it distributes games like Ba=lefield, Crysis or Need for Speed. The football simula@on game FIFA 13 was the most successful game of 2012, selling more than a million units on the Playsta@on alone in just six months. The French company Ubiso, is also one of the five largest publishers in the world and has its German HQ in Düsseldorf. With series like The Se=lers and Anno, Ubiso, publishes the most successful strategic games in Germany. In 2014, Anno Online received the German Computer Game Award for the Best Browser Game. Successful publishers have developed from within the local scene such as Ahoiii!, which was successful in three categories at the German Developer Award in 2013 with its children’s game Fiete, and the Mönchengladbach-based Astragon So,ware, which won the German Developer Award in 2011 for its farming simulator. Astragon's main shareholder is Rondomedia, which is also based in Mönchengladbach. Together, they are the second largest producer and distributor of computer games in Germany with sales of well over two million games. With its dynamism and good educa@onal landscape, NRW yields crea@ve talents for the games industry. The local developers’ scene must be supported with specific funding programmes so that games „made in NRW“ can become a trademark. Benedikt Grindel, Managing Director Ubiso)-Studio Blue Byte

Well-connected developer scene

Further synergy effects have arisen in the region. Electronic Arts, for example, has its successful game EA Fußballmanager developed by the Cologne-based company Bright Future, while Ubiso, took over the studio Blue Byte in 2001 and has since been the exclusive distributor of the legendary strategic game series The Se=lers and Anno. Blue Byte, founded in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1988 and now based in Düsseldorf, was one of the pioneers of the German game developers. The studio, which is now one of the fastest growing game developers in Germany, is regarded as the nucleus of the lively scene in the Ruhr region. This is where the Crazy Chicken’s inventors Phenomedia in Bochum and its subsidiary at the @me, Piranha Bytes, set important new standards at the end of the 1990s. These companies in turn led to new players such as Nevigo in Bochum and today’s Piranha Bytes/Pluto 13 in Essen, which is responsible for, among other things, the successful fantasy role playing games Gothic and Risen. Headup Games from Düren won the German Computer Game Award in 2014 for The Inner World from Studio Fizbin.

Online Gaming, Serious Games, eSports

The new trends in the games market are also reflected in NRW. For instance, Ubiso, has agreed on a strategic partnership with RTL Interac@ve for online gaming. The established development studio Funa@cs in Oberhausen is also ac@ve in this growing segment with browser games like Cultures Online. And KaiserGames in Cologne operates Germany’s most visited online game site, Spielaffe.de, with more than 10,000 free games. KaiserGames also drew aAen@on to itself in 2012 by its takeover of the social game Fliplife.de. The fact that the game developer scene Authors, directors, designers, programmers, actors and musicians need a crea@ve, networked environment in order to create computer games. This is exactly what NRW and the area around Cologne have to offer. Olaf Coenen, CEO Electronic Arts Germany

Spleemo & Glob: Monster Defense Fiete

Typoman

Paula

The Inner World

Anno

in the Rhine and Ruhr region also has great poten@al in the field of games with educa@onal content, the so-called serious games, is proven by such companies as Zone 2 Connect and Takomat with award-winning projects like The Virtual Supermarket and E2010 – Power to Energe gamescom in Cologne – trade fair of global importance > Global players Electronic Arts and Ubiso, > One in four German game developers based in NRW > Arvato, one of the most important distributors > Wide range of training opportuni@es > gamescom, GDC Europe, German Developer Award

Research and teaching

The universi@es and colleges in NRW are also con@nually expanding their exper@se in the field of games: The Cologne University of Applied Sciences (FH), for example, has developed the Cologne Game Lab ins@tute in coopera@on with ifs interna@onale filmschule köln, offering a Master’s Degree in Game Development and Research. The FH and Cologne Game Lab organize the biennial Clash of Reali@es academic conference in collabora@on with Electronic Arts. The courses in game design at the Media Design College in Düsseldorf are also unique in Germany, while the universi@es of Paderborn and Duisburg-Essen offer research specializa@on in the field of computer games.

Promo4on of ideas and start-ups

The Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW has been suppor@ng the young developer scene in the region since 2011 with its pilot funding programme for innova@ve audiovisual content. The funding programme was extended and expanded in 2014. In addi@on, the media industry in NRW has received sustainable support since 2012 through the innova@on programme Digital Media NRW/Create.Media.NRW as part of the Digital Media Region NRW ini@a@ve. The innova@on programme is administered by the federal state government. The Mediengründerzentrum NRW also provides an extensive bursary package for young game companies. And the UFA Lab NRW, which has been located in Cologne since 2012, supports colla-bora@ons between young crea@ves from all sectors. <

We opened an office in NRW to provide an entree into the industry for those talents who would like to work on culturally valuable games without applying the thumbscrews, but with lots of crea@ve freedom. A,er a few weeks, it could be seen that the plan was a complete success. Carsten Fichtelmann, CEO & Founder Daedalic Entertainment Studio West, Düsseldorf

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Service Providers Nevigo Partnertrans Phoenix Grafik planetlan TASK four Studio The Art of Games The Light Works Timm Dapper Turtle Entertainment Two Pi Team Webchef Webdesign Höhne 4D Projects Gaming Communi@es ESL Electronic Sports League FRONTmedien Gamechannel.de Gameforum.de n!faculty Research/Training Ins@tu@ons Cologne Game Lab FH Köln – Insitut für Medienforschung und Medienpädagogik ifs interna@onale filmschule köln Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf SAE Ins@tute Universität Duisburg-Essen Universität Paderborn Events/Awards Clash of Reali@es Deutscher Entwicklerpreis gamescom Gametreff NRW GDC Europe Next Level Conference NRW Game Developers Respawn Role Play Conven@on Sports Media Summit Networks eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtscha, e.V. Fachhochschule Köln – Projekt „Spielraum“ G.A.M.E. GameParents.de e.V. Zentrum für interak@ve Medien e.V. Sponsors Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW Mediencluster NRW Mediengründerzentrum NRW NRW.BANK

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Companies ac@ve value AdAudience Adcloud artegic arvato Betafabrik BILDblog Bookmerken Brain Injec@on buch.de/bol.de Clipfish.de Con@lla Coworking Cologne deutsche-startups.de dotKoeln Endemol beyond e-Spirit favsol Geocoder goneo Internet GmbH gpluscharts.de Imperia InVision kalaydo.de KultFrame Mediakra, Merky.de nacamar Play Massive Putpat TV pixelpark quintly Railslove Responsive Design Viewer RTL interac@ve Ruhrbarone.de Seitwert Seitzeichen Talen@al topiclodge WAZ NewMedia WDR mediagroup digital web2null.de woist.es 10000 Flies 9elements Agencies 01 Digitales Design antwerpes ag Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler Con Carne Crossmedia denkwerk e-mediad ge@t Krankikom LBi Germany lunapark netSTART Venture nexum AG Nionex Oevermann Networks People Interac@ve pixelpark radikant Reality Bytes Neue Medien Rheinklang Media ruhmesmeile Spyke Media T-Systems Mul@media Solu@ons TWT Interac@ve www.kennziffer.com wysiwyg So,ware Design zeec Events Bewegtbildstamm@sch Advance Hackathon Advance - Interna@onal Web & Startup Conference Cologne Web Content Forum Consumer Content Conference dmexco Grimme Online Award Interac@ve Cologne The Bobs Awards Deutscher Webvideopreis

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Internet & Web

Strong Players, crea4ve start-ups and webvideo stars The German Internet sector con@nued to prosper in 2013 thanks to a significant rise in adver@sing investments: with a gross adver@sing volume of over 7 billion Euros, the Internet has established itself as the second strongest adver@sing medium behind television and ahead of newspapers. Many e-commerce companies (telekom.de in Bonn, qvc.de in Düsseldorf, buch.de in Münster) are directly profi@ng from the online boom, as are service-providers like the Bertelsmann subsidiary arvato in Gütersloh (4.41 billion Euros turnover in 2013), which, for example, oversees the adver@sement payments for Google around the globe and manages the Xbox Shop for Microso, for several countries. The general use of the Internet is constantly increasing: Three out of four Germans use the Web, NRW has the highest level of digi@sa@on in Germany. Such posi@ve signals come together in North Rhine-Westphalia with an industry that is ideally geared to economic dynamism with innova@on, first-class companies and successful concepts. Small, crea@ve and fast start-ups assume the role of providing innova@on. The publishing and media groups bring innova@on into the old market by supplying venture capital to the start-ups.

Clipfish, Mediakra", Putpat TV, PONK

With Clipfish.de, RTL has access to a popular video portal with more than 55,000 music videos on offer. In 2012, Clipfish launched a second music portal, closely allied to social media features, called dooloop.tv, which allows the users to recommend their favourite music to friends via Facebook. Meanwhile, Putpat TV, founded in 2008 by Cologne-based TVRL, offers online music television that everyone can organise according to their own taste. Putpat Cologne also offers us crea@ve, cosmopolitan poten@al due to the proximity of high-quality film and TV producers: at the heart of a state where innova@on is both sought a,er and promoted. Marc Schröder, CEO RTL interac Leader in online adver@sing > Crea@ve start-up scene > Innova@ve developers and programmers > Important Internet agencies from NRW > Bundesverband Digitale Wirtscha,, eco – Associa@on of the German Internet Industry, Eyes & Ears of Europe, Web de Cologne, Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf, etc. > kalaydo.de, clipfish.de, buch.de, Y-TiAy, Ponk, Endemol beyond, etc. > dmexco, Advance, Grimme Online Award, Interac@ve Cologne, German Web Video Award, VideoDays

interac@ve develops for the web and, for example, regularly makes RTL.de into the TV website with the highest traffic, WDR mediagroup digital, for its part, offers a full service to prepare formats in an interac@ve and media-friendly way.

AdAudience, Valtech, denkwerk, LBI Germany

A motor of the NRW Internet industry is the lively and diverse landscape of so,ware developers and Internet agencies. One example of a company on the direct interface between adver@sers and content is Düsseldorf-based AdAudience, a joint venture of major marketers (incl. G+J Electronic Media Sales, IP Deutschland, SevenOne Media, Tomorrow Focus, Axel Springer Media Impact), who reach more than 80 per cent of all German Internet users. NRW is also the home of high quality Internet services providers, be it content management systems from Hürth (Imperia AG) and Dortmund (e-Spirit), hos@ng and streaming services from Düsseldorf (nacamar) or Web 2.0 consul@ng from Cologne (Brain Injec@on). The Telekom subsidiary T-Systems Mul@media Solu@ons with its branch in Bonn has been at the forefront of the Internet agency rankings for many years. Other well-known agencies at the front of the market include LBi Germany, denkwerk, Antwerpes, nexum AG, TWT Interac@ve, i22, Valtech, Reality Bytes Neue Medien und Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler.

Networking and Events

At the end of each September, koelnmesse extends an invita@on to come to Cologne for dmexco, the leading interna@onal mee@ng place for players in the digital industry. More than 800 exhibitors and around 31,900 professional delegates aAended in 2014. Opportuni@es for networking Cologne – and thus also NRW – has developed into the hot spot for web video produc@on. Many of the most well-known faces have moved here. That is a great advantage because the distances are short. People even meet in the street or at par@es and can chat about upcoming projects. Y-Ti=y, You Tube Stars

are offered by the Web de Cologne ini@a@ve which was founded by six Cologne-based online companies and the memi-Ins@tut. Interac@ve Cologne is a fes@val which brings hackers, designers and start-ups together. The start-up conference Advance has already spawned such spin-offs as the Pitching Day and the Hackathon. The Digital City Düsseldorf associa@on, joined by many important companies from the media, IT and telecommunica@ons industries, regularly organises such events as the Digitalks. NRW is home for the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtscha, and eco as well as serving as the venue for the Grimme Online Awards which are presented each year by the Grimme Ins@tute in Marl.

Web video scene

NRW’s posi@on as Germany’s number one TV hub is unchallenged on a na@onal level. The Land has now also developed into the leading region for web TV and web video produc@on, breaking records annually with the VideoDays in Cologne (15,000 par@cipants in 2014), and it is home to the most important award for this scene, the German Web Video Award, which is presented in Düsseldorf in May. In 2014, a scholarship programme for the development of web videos was launched by the Filmund Mediens@,ung NRW and the European Web Video Academy. The funding is intended to enable young web video makers from NRW to realise their ideas and projects as independent micro-producers. The funding also includes par@cipa@on in a training and support programme organised by the European Web Video Academy. <

Educa@on/Training Cognos AG Deutsche Medienakademie Köln European Web Video Academy Fachhochschule Aachen Fachhochschule Dortmund Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen Fachhochschule Köln Hochschule Fresenius Macromedia Hochschule Medien Management Ins@tut memi Köln Ruhr-Universität Bochum SAE Ins@tute Universität Köln Associa@ons Bundesverband Digitale Wirtscha, (BVDW) e.V. Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtscha, e.V. European Web Video Academy Eyes & Ears of Europe OpenImmo Web de Cologne Zentrum für interak@ve Medien Contacts www.medien.nrw.de www.films@,ung.de

NRW is the No. 1 federal state for web video. Nowhere are there more successful web video makers, nowhere is the young video scene more ac@ve. Although the life of the YouTube genera@on takes place on the net: the personal contact is s@ll the most important. And NRW provides the best condi@ons for this – as well as for the German Web Video Award. Markus Hündgen, Managing Partner, Chief Execu 33

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Three of the four largest German operators of mobile phone networks – Telekom, Vodafone and E-Plus – are based in NRW. Overall, more than 40 per cent of all those companies working in this sector in Germany are located here. Moreover, the excellent infrastructure in the field of interac@ve entertainment so,ware has, thanks to the presence of global players (Electronic Arts, Ubiso,) and an extremely crea@ve independent games scene, just as posi@ve an effect as the extensive television and publishing scene as well as NRW’s excep@onal posi@on within the Federal Republic in the field of geodata. And this has all happened against the background of prospering economic data: At the beginning of 2014, 50 per cent of Germans over 14 used a smartphone. Most consumers use the mobile phones to surf in the Internet. In 2013, the volume of data in the German mobile phone networks increased much faster than expected. 267 million Gigabytes passed through the mobile phone operators' networks (up 71 per cent compared to 2012). In 2014, the mobile phone networks in Germany are expected to generate 9.6 billion Euros turnover with mobile data services. And the market for apps is also con@nuing to flourish. In 2014, it is expected that around 717 million Euros will be generated with apps. In 2013, this was 547 million Euros.

Successful apps development: Glanzkinder, mobiven4on, Appsrise, Grandcentrix

Embedded in an environment that is ideal both in business and structural terms, an innova@on-friendly developer scene has emerged in recent years in NRW to design and market applica@ons for smartphones. Major players like Electronic Arts and Ubiso, successfully produce app versions of many of their @tles (FIFA, Need for Speed, Anno, Coupies has its company headquarters in the centre of Cologne, the Internet city. Besides an ac@ve Web 2.0 scene and the biggest mobile phone companies in Düsseldorf and Bonn, the economic informa@on technology department of the University of Cologne is a great address for new ideas. Frank Schleimer, co-founder and CEO Coupies

etc.). Other leading names in the sector such as Vodafone have given rise to new companies like the Düsseldorf-based Appselera@on which was taken over by Apprise Düsseldorf in 2014. The previous year saw one of the largest developers of mobile apps, Mubaloo, seCng up shop in Düsseldorf. Since the beta phase of the iPhone, Glanzkinder from Cologne has so far developed over 200 applica@ons for such clients as Siemens, BMW, Audi, VW and Viessmann and subsequently received numerous awards. In 2013, for example, the Cologne-based company celebrated the “Best of 2013“ award from the Ini@a@ve MiAelstand for its PDF.ac@vator app. Furthermore, mobiven@on from Cologne has made a name for itself throughout Europe with games (Hangman Hero, Tic Tac Toe) and graphic applica@ons. Its interna@onal clients include more than 100 app stores, mobile phone operators, brand names and adver@sing agencies. NRW is also excep@onally wellposi@oned in the field of mobile marke@ng, not least thanks to its prospering adver@sing scene with such companies as BaM! Interac@ve from Düsseldorf, which create marke@ng concepts from mobile adver@sement through to mobile Internet.

Mobile TV: RTL, WDR

Mobile television is another extensive field of business. In Cologne, for example, WDR mediagroup and RTL interac@ve are both involved in developing broadcas@ng content for mobile applica@ons, such as the Sportschau or Soccer World Cup app at WDR. The Now apps by RTL, RTL II and Vox enable buyers to watch the majority of the TV programmes via streaming on their mobile phones immediately following the broadcast. Apart from especially popular programmes like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Formula 1 As a digital na@ve among the German mobile phone providers, simyo has had its headquarters in Düsseldorf for ten years. An outstanding infrastructure, the large number of top players from the telco sector, access to talented professionals and, not least, the Rhenish openness and conviviality make living and working here so aArac@ve.

Nicolas Biagosch, CEO simyo GmbH

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The Day It Rained Forever

Tomb Raider Underworld

(with their own tailor-made applica@ons produced by RTL interac@ve), the in-house developer also sa@sfies the demand for moving images on the mobile phone with a mobile version of Clipfish with approx. 4.35 million app downloads. The No. 1 television hub is also a fer@le environment for mobile service-providers in NRW: Grandcentrix from Cologne develops and handles more than 22 applica@ons for RTL, incl. the iPhone apps for Idol, Got Talent and X-Factor. Moreover, the company is also behind the smartphone app for the ARD-Quizduell as a commission from ITV Studios Germany Cologne. The apps for Berlin Day & Night and Dalli Dalli are part of the product portfolio at Appsrise in Düsseldorf.

Loca4on-based services

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the importance of geodata for business and the media was recognised early on. The result: a unique posi@on within Germany as shown by developers of successful applica@ons based on geodata, who have set up shop in the region. In the field of mobile media, this is especially the case for naviga@on and loca@onbased services: innova@ons are made here, for example, by Logiball from Herne, which is, among other things, the official distributor of the TomTom naviga@on device producer. Logiball has developed into Europe's largest independent IT service-provider handling digital street maps. In 2013, GeoMobile GmbH from Dortmund introduced the GeoCompanion app, which provides orienta@on and security for journeys in crisis and war zones and received the Human Telema@k Award at the IFA Berlin in 2013. In 2014, it picked up the Telema@k Award for the BusAccess app for passengers with restricted mobility in public transport services. Meanwhile, Naviki is the name given to a NRW is THE media region par excellence since we also have a crea@ve media landscape alongside solid technology that is concentrated in a radius of 150 km – and all of this with the nice ambience of the Rhine and Ruhr: the perfect combina@on for breathtaking apps. Mustafa Mussa, CEO bam! Interac Global players: Vodafone, Telekom, E-Plus, Electronic Arts, Sevenval, and others > Successful app developers > Ideal infrastructure > 40 per cent of German mobile companies in NRW > Mobile capital Düsseldorf > Pioneer in the field of loca@on-based services > iPhone DevCon, Mobile Media Summit, Advance

route planner for bicycles – a successful app which was developed at the Münster University of Applied Sciences and has also been available throughout Europe since 2013. Publishers also make use of this high-performance infrastructure: for example, WAZ with its traffic conges@on informa@on and signpost service. The Cologne-based company Coupies offers loca@on-based coupons and discounts for mobile phones, and received several awards (incl. Best of Mobile Award 2014) for its loca@on-based service. The bargain service from NRW claims to have now reached 3.5 million mobile end-users.

Mobile future in NRW

NRW thinks mobile. In fact, Cologne was the first city in Germany to be included by Telekom in its new high-speed mobile network LTE, and, thanks to Vodafone, Düsseldorf has also been able to surf in the fast UMTS successor network before other ci@es.

NRW also shows in other ways that it is well prepared for the mobile future: this is where car parking payment by mobile phone was first introduced in Germany (available in Cologne since February 2008); this is where Sevenval, the inventor of FIT Technology and technological leader for mobile web so,ware, is based; this is where professional training programmes are offered (e.g. Mobile Media at the ifs interna@onale filmschule Cologne); this is where the app developers conference iPhone DevCon takes place. And this is where there are ins@tu@ons suppor@ng mobile start-ups in their launch and growth phases (e.g. Startplatz Cologne and the Mobile Incubator 1st Mover in Düsseldorf). <

The Sims 3

Rabbids Big Bang

App Development Pythia Mobile Infotainment Rheinfabrik RockAByte Rocket Apes RTL interac@ve Sevenval Ubiso, Startplatz The APP Guys WDR mediagroup Widjet wp solu@ons

Educa@on/Training ifs interna@onale filmschule köln Events/Awards Advance Conference Digitalk+ DWNRW AWARD Interac@ve Cologne iPhone DevCon Mobile Media Summit Telekom App Award

Associa@ons/Networks Bundesverband Digitale Wirtscha, (BVDW) Cluster IKT.NRW Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtscha, e.V. engage.NRW networker NRW Web de Cologne wisnet Contacts www.films@,ung.de www.medien.nrw.de www.ikt.nrw.de

Now a leader in the field of counter-surveillance, Secusmart highly appreciates the support from the Land of NRW. This includes the valuable networks and key industry events such as the Düsseldorf mobile campaign: NRW breathes mobility. Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, CEO Secusmart

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Huawei, Düsseldorf

Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn

Telekommunication Market leader in interna4onal communica4ons

Companies Blackberry Deutsche Telekom E-Plus Ericsson Huawai LG Electronics NEC Düsseldorf NetCologne Nokia QSC Radiodata Samsung Unitymedia Vodafone ZTE

Service Providers 010012 Telecom 01051 Telecom arvato infoscore bn:t Blatzheim Callax Telecom Cedros Congstar ecotel communica@on ePocket Solu@ons Eutelsat Deutschland IN-telegence LANstream Simfonics TELE2 Telemark Verizon Versatel XConnect ZyXEL

Netzwerke/Verbände German Council Local Chapter Düsseldorf Mobile Marke@ng Associa@on Mobile Monday Community Contacts www.ikt.nrw.de

North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the largest European markets for informa@on and communica@ons technology as well as telecommunica@ons services: Over 18 million inhabitants and more than 747,000 businesses are catered for here - therefore, the range of suppliers and serviceproviders is correspondingly broad and significant. Some 42,000 people are employed in the field of telecommunica@ons; 25 per cent of all those working in this industry in Germany. Germany’s two largest telecommunica@ons providers, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, are based in NRW. Nearly 90 per cent of the German market for mobile communica@ons is covered by NRW-based companies, including three of the four German mobile operators: Telekom in Bonn and Vodafone and E-Plus in Düsseldorf.

Deutsche Telekom

142.5 million mobile phone customers, 31 million fixedlines and more than 17 million broadband connec@ons as well as more than 230,000 employees around the world and a turnover of 60.1 billion Euros in 2013: Deutsche Telekom, with its headquarters in Bonn, is one of the world’s leading telecommunica@ons concerns. The company came into being in 1995 as a result of the priva@sa@on of the state-run Deutsche Bundespost and its divisions for telecommunica@ons and telephones, and now offers products and services in the fields of fixed-line networks, mobile communica@ons, Internet and IPTV (internet protocol television) for private customers as well as providing ICT solu@ons for large and commercial customers – in almost 50 countries around the globe. The company operates

Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society with infrastructure. We are also a reliable companion in the digital world. Both privately and professionally. Any@me and anywhere. Simplifying and enriching people’s lives – that is our mission. NRW is the home from where we take on this responsibility – also in partnership with the media. Timotheus Hö=ges, CEO Deutsche Telekom

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technical networks, for example, for landline and mobile telephones as well as for online services. In addi@on to that, it is one of the most important operators of the broadcas@ng infrastructure in Germany.

Vodafone

With 10,500 employees and a turnover of 9.6 billion Euros in 2013, Vodafone Germany is one of the largest and stateof-the art telecommunica@ons providers in Europe. An innova@ve Düsseldorf-based technology and services company, Vodafone Germany offers mobile communica@ons and a fixed-line network as well as internet and broadband data services for both corporate and private customers. Vodafone has more than 400 million customers worldwide and is thus the world’s second largest globally ac@ve mobile provider a,er China Mobile. In Germany, Vodafone has around 32 million mobile phone customers. In 2014, Vodafone took over Kabel Deutschland, the largest German cable operator based on the number of households served (8.5 million), and now also offers cable television and fast broadband cable.

E-Plus

The story of E-Plus began in 1993 with three real NRW heavy-weights: the principal partners in the E-Plus consor@um who successfully applied for a mobile phone licence were the telecommunica@ons subsidiaries of VEBA, RWE and Thyssen. Düsseldorf-based E-Plus is now the number three in the German mobile phone market. At the beginning of 2014, 25.5 million customers were phoning, “tex@ng”

A strong network infrastructure is the key raw material for business in the digital age. Strong networks have an existen@al importance in our informa@on society for Germany as an industrial hub and, consequently, for growth, jobs and prosperity. NRW is home to the two biggest companies who are providing these lifelines for our society. The telco heart of Germany beats in NRW. Jens Schulte-Bockum, CEO Vodafone Deutschland

E-Plus Headquarter, Düsseldorf

and surfing in the E-Plus Group network (incl. Base, Simyo, Ay Yildiz, blau Mobilfunk) which posted overall turnover of 3.2 billion Euros (2013) and has been part of the Spanish telecommunica/ons group Telefónica since October 2014.

Internaonal market leaders: Blackberry, Ericsson, Huawai, ZTE

Thanks to the market leaders and their many large compe/tors, NRW has evolved into a loca/on boas/ng an interna/onal reputa/on. Global companies in the telecommunica/ons sector have set up business between the rivers Rhine and the Ruhr. The Swedish market leader Ericsson, for example, has had its headquarters in Düsseldorf since 1955, and the Finnish telecommunica/ons giant Nokia has its German base in Ra/ngen. The Chinese giants Huawei and ZTE, who together dominate a quarter of the European market for telecommunica/ons equipment, have also chosen to locate their opera/ons in Düsseldorf, with Huawei even having its European headquarters here. Apart from such big names, it is mainly the many small and mediumsized enterprises who are establishing themselves as key economic performers and ensuring that telecommunica/ons is now the area with the largest turnover in NRW’s media and communica/ons sector.

Strong networks, intelligent services: Unitymedia, QSC, NetCologne

The large spectrum of regional and na/onal cable network operators and service-providers also contributes to the boom in the telecommunica/ons market in NRW as they

NRW, and Düsseldorf in par/cular, offers everything that telecommunica/ons providers need: a perfect infrastructure, the biggest telecommunica/ons cluster and a large catchment area. That is why people call Düsseldorf “Mobile City”. Our partners seek our proximity by opening branches here and are coopera/ng with us to create 4th genera/on mobile communica/ons.

Facts and Figures > Three out of four German mobile network opera/ons: Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, E-Plus > Almost 90 per cent of the German mobile communica/ons market > One of the largest European markets > 42,000 employees in telecommunica/ons > 190,000 employees in the ICT industry > Highest turnover in the media and communica/ons sector > Second largest globally opera/ng mobile provider in the world: Vodafone > Eight Fraunhofer Ins/tutes specialising in ICT in NRW

Vodafone, Düsseldorf

increasingly offer telephone and Internet services as well. Unitymedia in Cologne, for example, is the second-largest cable network operator in Germany according to turnover (1.9 billion Euros in 2013). Following the takeover of KabelBW in 2012, the subsidiary of the US media group Liberty Global now supplies 6.7 million customers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Wür0emberg and Hesse with broadband cable services. At the end of 2013, Unitymedia KabelBW had 7.1 million customers, more than half of them in NRW. The customers subscribe to more than 11.7 million services: around 2.6 million Internet and 2.5 million telephone subscrip/ons as well as 6.6 million TV subscrip/ons. Colognebased QSC has specialised in corporate customers. Opera/ng throughout the whole of Germany, the service-provider and network operator offers telephone services, DSL, Virtual Private Networks, dedicated digital subscriber lines and such services as call centre features. QSC AG has around 1,700 employees and posted a turnover of 455.7 million Euros in 2013. NetCologne has established itself as a regional telecommunica/ons company in the economic region of Cologne/Bonn/Aachen. The company is the most successful city carrier in Germany with 239,000 landline connec/ons (telephone and internet) via TAL and 149,000 broadband connec/ons via its own network, 25,000 mobile customers, 216,000 TV customers, 891 employees and a turnover of 241 million Euros in 2013. <

With Düsseldorf as a mobile capital and a strong, lively network of companies, NRW provides an innova/ve power which is unique in the European telecommunica/ons industry. Stephan Schneider, CEO Digitale Stadt Düsseldorf e.V.

Thorsten Dirks, CEO E-Plus

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Network expansion, NetCologne

Cabel & Satellite Network Operators Unitymedia NetCologne Deutsche Telekom Vodafone

Equipment Suppliers/ Service Providers 3M Ericsson Toshiba Mitsubishi Digitalbox Europe ASTRO Strobel Kommunika@onssysteme Media Broadcast Further Key Players Eutelsat Deutsche Netzmarke@ng Gesellscha, ANGA e.V. Dt. TV-PlaBorm Bundesnetzagentur Contacts www.ikt.nrw.de

Germany has seen compe@@on between infrastructures in the broadband market ever since Deutsche Telekom was obliged to sell its TV broadband cable back in 2000. The new cable providers, who were ini@ally only responsible for television, now sell Internet and telephone connec@ons and have become compe@tors for the telecommunica@ons companies as a consequence. The telco providers are responding by developing their networks and now offering their customers moving images as well as telephone services and the Internet. Many players have a stake in this business, and a significant number of them are based in North Rhine-Westphalia. From here, the companies exert influence on both the regional and na@onal cable market.

Germany’s largest cable market

In North Rhine-Westphalia, there are approximately four million households with cable: i.e. 40 per cent of all viewers receive their TV programmes via cable. This makes NRW the largest cable market in Germany.

Unitymedia KabelBW

Unitymedia KabelBW, with its headquarters in Cologne, is Germany’s largest cable network operator and one of the leading providers of media and communica@ons services via broadband cable in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Baden-WürAemberg with 1.9 billion Euros turnover in 2013. The company, a subsidiary of Liberty Global, has access to one of Europe’s most modern and largest connected cable networks. At the end of 2013, Unitymedia KabelNW had 7.1 million customers, of which more than half are in NRW. The customers subscribed to 11.9 million services: around 2.6 million Internet and 2.5 million telephone subscrip@ons The heart of Eutelsat Germany has always beaten in the media region of NRW. This is where we have a media hub with a pulsa@ng breeding ground we need for our innova@ons. So, we are best-placed for suppor@ng our network partners with turnkey solu@ons for the dynamic development of digital services. Mar NRW: forerunner in network digitaliza@on > Germany’s second largest cable network operator: Unitymedia Kabel BW with 1.9 billion Euros turnover > Largest city-carrier in Germany: NetCologne with 241 million Euros turnover > Deutsche Telekom – most successful IPTV supplier > ANGA COM – largest and most successful broadband event in Europe with 17,000 professional delegates

In addi@on to a basic package with more than 80 free-TV channels and 29 HD channels, customers have access to thousands of feature films, series and documentaries as well as Sky’s offers. Following its takeover of Kabel Deutschland in 2014, Vodafone now aims to expand its involvement in the area of television. Providers of broadband infrastructures rely on the providers of aArac@ve content. And there are many of these in NRW: the RTL Group with the RTL, VOX, Super RTL, n-tv, and RTL Nitro free TV channels and the RTL Crime, RTL Passion and RTL Living special interest channels, as well as WDR with its local programming and radio sta@ons, plus Center.tv, NRW.TV, QVC, Deutschlandradio, Deutsche Welle and radio NRW. But it's not only the suppliers of content who call NRW home: Technical service-providers and equipment and device manufacturers for cable network operators are also present in the region such as 3M, Ericsson, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent, Digitalbox Europe, Astro Strobel and Media Broadcast.

Eutelsat

With 18.1 million households in Germany, satellite recep@on remains the biggest compe@tor for cable television (16.9 million households) today, especially in rural regions. Eutelsat, the world’s third largest satellite operator and number one in the region Europe, Middle East and Africa with a fleet of 30 satellites, is based in Cologne’s Mediapark. Along with the direct provision of satellite TV to households, Eutelsat also offers its feeding and marke@ng services to cable network operators.

North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the most important media and economic regions in Europe. We are proud to contribute to the con@nuing success of its businesses and ci@zens with a first-class broadband infrastructure and quality products. Lutz Schüler, CEO Unitymedia Group

ANGA & Co.

The Cologne-based associa@on ANGA has more than 190 member companies in Germany – cable network operators and well-known systems manufacturers, providing their services to 17 million cable households. Each year, the associa@on organises the ANGA COM, the biggest broadband event in Europe, at the koelnmesse trade fair and conference centre with more than 450 exhibitors from 36 countries and 17,000 professional delegates. In 2014, for the first @me, the ANGA COM was staged in co-opera@on with the Medienforum NRW.

Digital future

NRW is fit for the future. More than 70 per cent of households are equipped to watch digital TV. Unitymedia KabelBW, with its modernised, digital and return channelcapable network, is among the pioneers when it comes to evolving into a mul@media pla?orm. With more than two million digital households in NRW, the company already provides digital services to more than 60 per cent of its TV customers, a higher level of digi@sa@on than other cable network operators or federal states. With its wide range of services and its own extensive fibre op@c network, NetCologne is also in tune with the latest market trends and offers capacity for further development. <

The cable, broadband and TV industry is booming, and ANGA Cable at Cologne’s Messegelände offers the perfect market place. Europe’s leading conference and fair for cable, broadband and satellite registered record numbers of exhibitors and visitors again this year.

Thomas Braun, President ANGA Verband Deutscher Kabelnetzbetreiber

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Coworking Space GarageBilk

Start-ups

Good environment for young ideas

Start-ups 9elements.com ampha.de Appselera@on Auxmoney azubister.net baby-markt.de BringMeBack chocolato.de Clickworker Con@lla Coupies dawawas.de doo Dressed Monkeys [email protected] gocrowdup.com/de Heat Pool HierBeiDir Kaasa health Kalaydo.de Kochabo lebenslauf.com loudplaces.com Miacosa musicplayr.com Nurogames Quintly Pixum plazaa.de quintly.com Railslove reputami.com Seitwert.de Simfy squeaker.net Supr.com Tamyca @vity.de Trivago United Equity userlike.com Widjet

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Incubators/Venture Capital 1stMover Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland Capnamic Ventures Friendventure High-Tech Gründerfonds netstart Ventures Rheinfabrik Startplatz T Ventures Ufa Lab NRW

NRW as a start-up stronghold

North Rhine-Westphalia offers start-ups excellent condi@ons. The good infrastructure, numerous support programmes as well as the high regard for innova@on have provided the basis for one of the highest rates of start-ups in Germany. The self-confident scene in Cologne with its extensive startup and event culture has spawned such renowned companies as Kalaydo, Adcloud, and Simfy. The federal state has developed its par@cular strength through the interplay between the ci@es and regions: from the hotel price comparison site Trivago in Düsseldorf through the Bonn document management service doo to the Dortmundbased crowd working service Clickworker.

NRW is also home to very successful young B2B entrepreneurs who have been hardly no@ced by the media, including ParStream from Cologne (Red Herring Europe 2013 Top 100 Companies) and Cleverbridge AG, one of the world’s leading E-commerce providers with 150 employees and offices in Cologne, Tokyo and Chicago. The Games Factory Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr is currently serving as a new home for 16 companies and freelancers.

Investors and incubators

Incubators for start-ups are booming. Never before have so many of them been launched as at present. Start-ups find everything they need here: offices, infrastructure, fast Internet, conference rooms as well as support on tax and legal issues. In the past, it was o,en public authori@es who had set up incubators in the form of start-up and technology centres. However, former start-ups and venture capital arms

NRW has many crea@ve thinkers and prac@@oners for the Digital Economy, and a coopera@on between startups, SMEs and industry will make it possible to master the challenges for the digital transforma@on necessary in the western part of Germany. Prof. Dr. Tobias Kollmann, Head NRW Digital Economy Office

of large media and publishing groups are now increasingly the ones who are crea@ng the organisa@onal prerequisites. The following ini@a@ves have made a par@cular impact: the High-Tech Gründerfonds in Bonn, which provides companies with the necessary capital and knowhow in the early stages and the incubator Startplatz in Cologne which began by inves@ng in two companies (Tanked und Maple Apps) as well as serving as a venue for numerous events and co-working spaces. The space available for start-ups at the Mediapark was doubled in 2013. The incubator 1stMover has posi@oned itself in Düsseldorf and specialises in mobile Internet. In its co-working space K LAN close to the Vodafone Campus, it offers young startups the chance to realise their projects. Another important player is netSTART Ventures of Tobias Kollmann who is a professor in e-business and e-entrepreneurship at the University of Duisburg-Essen and also serves as commissioner for Digital Economy for the Economics Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. The establishment of this posi@on shows that start-ups have a par@cularly high priority for the regional government.

Universi4es and academies

In @mes of skills shortages, NRW is fortunately home to many renowned talent labs. The RWTH Aachen University, for example, is one of the three biggest universi@es for technical courses in Germany with over 40,000 students and provides important qualified manpower. The University of Cologne has Mark Kley as an experienced start-up consultant who can support the university graduates in seCng

NRW offers start-ups financial funding possibili@es at every stage as well as advisors with interna@onal experience, top universi@es, favourable co-working programmes and very good transport connec@ons. The proximity to investors and a broad client base from all industrial sectors is unique in Germany. At the same @me, a beAer chance for interna@onalisa@on is offered here in the heart of Europe. Thomas Grota, Investment Director T-Venture

Hometown/Mediakra)Networks

up their companies. Moreover, in a na@onal comparison, NRW is the leader with its 17 professorships for Entrepreneurship, and with an upward trend. The Cologne University’s Start-up Network offers an intensive programme of training, workshops and advice for start-ups.

Conferences, networks, pitchings

Up to 40 events for the digital industry are listed by the Cologne-based calendar pla?orm Nerdhub in NRW each week. And a considerable number of these events are aimed at the co-working scene. For example, the Cluster House, where more than 60 start-ups and agencies are based, provided the launchpad for the annual European Pirate Summit which has developed into one of Europe’s most important start-up events within just two years. In 2013, Startplatz ini@ated a new pitch and networking format. The goal of this monthly “Rhineland Pitch” is to give young start-ups from the Rhineland region an opportunity to present their business ideas to a high-calibre audience. Up to 80 start-ups meet regularly at alterna@ng venues to network. Other events like dmexco, the leading trade fair for the digital industry, or events such as Advance – Conference, Pitching & Coaching Day and Hackathon – underscore the region’s aArac@veness. The posi@ve development of Interac@ve Cologne shows how closely the scene in NRW works together to create something special: in 2014, more than 120 events and numerous satellite events provided the media, crea@ve and digital industries with opportuni@es to inform themselves and to experiment. <

Facts and Figures > one of the highest rates of start-ups in Germany > Kalaydo, Trivago, Clickworker, Auxmoney > strong talent labs > the largest number of professorships for Entrepreneurship na@onwide > Strong games hub, large independent scene > B2B with strong players: ParStream, Cleverbridge > Booming incubators: Startplatz, 1stMover > Events: European Pirate Summit Week, Rhineland Pitch, dmexco, Advance–Conference, Pitching & Coaching Day, Hackathon, Interac@ve Cologne

We consciously decided in favour of Cologne when establishing STARTPLATZ as there is a developed start-up culture here, which we can also help to shape even further. With the Rhineland Pitch, we have also devised a pitching format which is specially targeted at founders from all over NRW. The start-up scene is flourishing and we are happy to be part of it. Ma=hias Gräf, Managing Director Startplatz

With the UFA Lab NRW in Cologne, we – as a leading provider of the moving image in Germany – are puCng our strategy into prac@ce of par@cipa@ng in the digital transforma@on of the media landscape. In this respect, NRW is an extremely inspiring region for us with established media companies and young founders and start-ups. Jens-Uwe Bornemann, Vice President Digital Ventures & Innova 41

Workshop Peter Indergand, KHM Cologne

Education

Young genera4on and emerging talent

Universi@es with mediaspecific Courses Bergische Universität Wuppertal Fern-Universität Hagen Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf RWTH Aachen Rheinische FriedrichWilhelms-Universität Bonn Ruhr-Universität Bochum TU Dortmund Universität Bielefeld Universität Duisburg-Essen Universität Paderborn Universität Siegen Universität zu Köln Wes?. Wilhelms-Univ. Münster

Technical Colleges Hochschule Rhein Waal FH Aachen FH Bielefeld FH des MiAelstands Bielefeld FH Dortmund FH Düsseldorf FH Gelsenkirchen FH Köln FH Münster FH Südwes?alen Soest Interna@onale FH Bad Honnef-Bonn Rheinische FH Köln Technische FH Georg Agricola zu Bochum

Universi@es/Academies BiTS Business and Informa@on Technology School Iserlohn Cologne Business School Köln EMBA Medienakademie Folkwang Univ. der Künste Essen HS Bochum HS Bonn-Rhein-Sieg HS Fresenius für Wirtscha, und Medien Köln HS für Musik Detmold HS für Musik und Tanz Köln HS Hamm-Lippstadt HS Niederrhein Krefeld HS Ostwes?alen-Lippe Lemgo ifs interna@onale filmschule köln Interna@onal School of Management Dortmund Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Kunstakademie Münster

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North Rhine-Westphalia has a diverse higher educa@on landscape with 14 universi@es, 16 colleges, seven state art and music colleges, 29 recognised private and church colleges as well as five administra@ve colleges. 2014/15 marked the first @me since the crea@on of NRW that the number of students has exceeded 700,000. Around 45 of the 71 ins@tu@ons offer media-specific courses, covering the whole gamut of subjects from editorial and ar@s@c to commercial and technical aspects. Students in NRW have a choice from almost 200 of these basic and advanced study courses. In addi@on, there are almost 30 appren@ceship trades which are offered at voca@onal colleges and many commiAed training ins@tu@ons to facilitate young people’s entrée into the media, as well as a host of wellestablished and specialised further educa@on programmes. Those interested in learning one of more than 200 professions in the media industry will find a suitable educa@on programme in NRW, one of the most aArac@ve places in Germany for media training. The condi@ons are thus also ideal for locally-based media companies to find qualified new employees, while young people seCng up their own businesses a,er training can count on the support from numerous funding programmes.

Film and audiovisual media

Two of the seven most important German film academies are based in NRW. The interna@onally-oriented Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, KHM) is Germany’s first arts academy for audiovisual media. It offers a unique training concept which combines the teaching areas from film and television, art and media Produc@on companies from cinema to games, many TV broadcasters and a wide range of educa@onal and further training opportuni@es: NRW provides the ideal environment for those studying film and media – both during their courses and a,erwards.

Simone Stewens, CEO ifs interna Training in 200 media professions > More than 160 media-specific study courses > 26 skilled trades, 30 voca@onal colleges > Interdisciplinary links between training opportuni@es > Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln KHM, ifs interna@onale filmschule köln, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Macromedia Hochschule, RTL Journalistenschule, and others > Scholarship programmes: Mediengründerzentrum NRW, Gerd Ruge-S@pendium, Wirtscha,sförderung Mülheim, Wim Wenders Scholarship, and others

Horst Görtz Ins@tute at the Ruhr University Bochum – the top address for IT security. The journalism courses in Münster and Dortmund, the na@onally unique Bachelor of Engineering Image and Sound at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, the digital educa@on pla?orm run by the Technical University Dortmund’s Ins@tute of Journalism, nrwision, as well as the four state music colleges and the acclaimed media studies at the universi@es of Cologne and Bochum – the range of ini@al and con@nuous training courses in their diversity is tuned to the demands of the media industry and meets the needs for a skilled labour force.

Scholarships, funding and compe44ons

In order to offer the next genera@on even beAer opportuni@es to start a career, a unique informa@on centre for training in media professions was established with the seCng up of AIM in Cologne. In addi@on, the Land North Rhine-Westphalia has various scholarship and support programmes at its disposal. The Film- und Mediens@,ung, for example, supports selected gradua@on films by students at NRW film academies. Funding programmes and bursaries, such as those offered by the AV-Gründerzentrum NRW in Cologne, are available to freelancers. In addi@on, numerous compe@@ons ranging from kurzundschön and the netSTART Award to the Wim Wenders Scholarship, which was ini@ated jointly by the Wim Wenders Founda@on and Film- und Mediens@,ung in 2014, are evidence that all doors are open to young people beginning a career in the media industry in NRW. <

The competence and crea@vity of those working in the media in NRW, the exper@se and coopera@ve willingness of the state’s diverse educa@onal and further training ins@tu@ons, and the successful media companies based here: all of this provides the RTL School of Journalism with an op@mal network in which we can all cooperate so as to offer qualifica@ons with a future.

Peter Kloeppel, Chief Editor RTL/ Director RTL School of Journalism

Universi@es/Academies Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Macromedia HS für Medien und Kommunika@on Köln Mediadesign – HS für Design und Informa@k Düsseldorf Robert-Schumann-HS Düsseldorf

Advanced Training Ins@tu@ons bm – gesellscha, für bildung in medienberufen Köln Cologne Game Lab Deutsche Pop Akademie Köln Film Ac@ng School Cologne Filmhaus Bielefeld FilmwerkstaA Düsseldorf FilmwerkstaA Münster Games Factory Ruhr ifs interna@onale filmschule köln Journalistenschule Ruhr Essen Kölner Filmhaus Kölner Journalistenschule für Poli@k und Wirtscha, mibeg-Ins@tut Medien Köln Musikhochschule der Universität Münster netSTART Offene Jazz Haus Schule Rheinische Musikschule RTL Journalistenschule SAE Ins@tute Bochum und Köln WAK - Westdeutsche Akademie für Kommunika@on WAM - Die Medienakademie Dortmund Wirtscha,sakademie am Ring Köln

Advice Centres AIM Koordina@onsCentrum für Ausbildung in Medienberufen Köln Medienfest.NRW

Contacts www.aim-mia.de [email protected] www.mbem.nrw.de www.medienkompetenzatlas-nrw.de www.mekonet.de www.schulministerium.nrw.de

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German Webvideo Award

Events

Events, trade fairs, fes4vals

Awards 1LIVE Krone Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen Deutscher Comedypreis Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Deutscher Fernsehpreis Deutscher Hörbuchpreis Deutscher Kamerapreis Deutscher Webvideopreis Grimme-Preis Grimme Online Award Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden Médaille Charlemagne red dot award

Film Fes@vals Bielefelder Kinderfilmfest Blicke – Filmfes@val des Ruhrgebiets Cinepänz Cologne Conference doxs! Duisburger Filmwoche Exposed – Fes@val für erste Filme Fantasy Filmfest Film Cologne Filmfest Düsseldorf Filmfes@val Münster Filmplus – Forum für FilmschniA und Montagekunst Film- und VideoweAbewerb Bielefeld Interna@onale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Interna@onale Stummfilmtage Bonn Interna@onales Frauenfilmfes@val Dortmund|Köln Interna@onales Kinderfilmfest Bonn KinderFilmFest Münster Kinderfilmtage Ruhrgebiet KinderKinoFest Düsseldorf Kinofest Lünen kurzundschön Landesfilmfes@val der Region Düsseldorf SoundTrack_Cologne Unlimited Kurzfilmfes@val Videonale Bonn

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NRW provides the appropriate loca@ons, but, above all, commiAed ini@a@ves for a wide range of different media events with interna@onal appeal. These include major events with television audiences of millions like the Bambi in Düsseldorf’s Stadthalle and the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf’s Esprit Arena, but also smaller events for select circles like the Charlemagne Medal for European Media, awarded to important media personali@es in Aachen each year. And they also include new, future-oriented events such as the Interac@ve Cologne Fes@val which, book-ended by the Medienforum NRW and ANGA COM, aAracted the general public and the Internet industry from all over Germany to Cologne in 2014 with its mixture of conferences, workshops, networking and entertainment.

Medienforum NRW, Film Autumn and industry gatherings

In its 26th year, the Medienforum NRW was held for the first @me in 2014 with ANGA COM, bringing two of many highlights in the media industry’s calendar closer together. November is dominated by cinema with more than 15 fes@vals, film seasons and award ceremonies. The Film and Cinema Conference of the Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW has developed into a permanent mee@ng place as a unique pla?orm for the film industry. But numerous industry gatherings bring decision-makers and crea@ves together in NRW throughout the rest of the year – for example, at the Entertainment Masterclass, the Factual Entertainment Summit, the Film-Messe Köln, the DW Global Medienforum, at c/o pop, the Grimme Online Award, the German Camera Award and the Emmy Semi-Final Judgings.

NRW’s ci@es are as diverse as the landscape. But one thing unites the people of this region: curiosity about all things new. That is all I can ask for. Werner Köhler, CEO lit.Cologne

Diverse fes4val scene: Cologne, Oberhausen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Lünen

A unique variety of projects and ini@a@ves has been developed, par@cularly in the area of film fes@vals across NRW. A,er having been held for 60 @mes, the Interna@onal Short Film Fes@val Oberhausen is not only the fes@val in NRW with the longest tradi@on, but is also regarded as the oldest and one of the three most important fes@vals for short films in the world. In 1962, the famous Oberhausen Manifesto was issued here and fundamentally redefined the course of German post-war cinema. The Dortmund/ Cologne Interna@onal Women’s Film Fes@val is also one of the most important ini@a@ves on a global scale. From important industry forums on television culture (Cologne Conference), film edi@ng (Filmplus in Cologne) and film scores (SoundTrack_Cologne) through to fes@vals with focuses on German-language documentaries (Duisburg Film Week), video art (Videonale Bonn), silent cinema (Interna@onal Silent Film Fes@val Bonn) and German films (Kinofest Lünen): nowhere else in Germany is the scope of events larger than here in NRW.

lit.Cologne and Comedy-Fes4val

The lit.Cologne fes@val has been making reading into a popular event for the past 14 years. The programme of the Cologne literature fes@val augments classic readings with forms taken from theatre and cabaret as well as discussions. In 2014, the organisers reported 97 per cent capacity aAendance with around 101,000 visitors, establishing lit.Cologne as the largest fes@val for reading in Europe. The fes@val has also been running a popular phil-

From our standpoint, the development of NRW as a media loca@on in recent years has been so tremendous that, in 2009, we even decided to set up a special compe@@on for works from the federal state. We haven’t regreAed it. Lars Henrik Gass, Director of the Interna ANGA COM, gamescom, Medienforum, GDC Europe, dmexco, drupa, photokina > Number one loca@on in the world for trade fairs with more than six million visitors to more than 60 events > lit.Cologne with 100,000 visitors – Europe’s biggest reading fes@val > Medienforum NRW, Interac@ve Cologne > Advance – Int. Web & Start-up Conference, Pitching Day, Coaching Day and Hackathon in Cologne > Diverse fes@val scene: around 30 film fes@vals, Film Autumn > German Television Award, Grimme Award, 1Live Krone, Grimme Online Award, German Comedy Award, red dot award, German Camera Award, German Web Video Award, German Developers Award, Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden

Cologne Conference

sophy spin-off – phil.Cologne since 2013. In 2015, another literary event will come to Cologne with the launch of the world literature mee@ng Poe@ca. The ini@ators are the German Academy for Language and Literature and the Morphomata Interna@onal Centre at the University of Cologne. The Interna@onal Cologne Comedy Fes@val, which has successfully underscored Cologne’s status as Germany’s comedy capital in the past 24 years, reached an audience of more than 30,000 with over 100 shows and 200 ar@sts in 2014. The extravagantly staged presenta@on of the German Comedy Award during a show at the fes@val is regularly watched by around three million viewers on RTL. No other comedy event in Germany is as successful.

gamescom, GDC, ANGA COM and dmexco

The gamescom trade fair opened its doors for the sixth @me in Cologne’s Koelnmesse trade fair grounds in August 2014. The world’s largest trade fair and event highlight for interac@ve games and entertainment welcomed almost 340,000 visitors, 31,500 of which were professional delegates, as well as 700 exhibitors from 47 countries. The gamescom fair is aimed at both consumers and professional delegates, for whom the addi@onal Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) is organised in the run-up to gamescom – with more than 2,250 delegates, over 130 interna@onal speakers, more than 80 exhibitors and sponsors, making the 2014 edi@on Europe’s biggest professional event of this kind. In addi@on, the world’s leading trade fair for photography and imaging, photokina (185,000 visitors in 2014), is also held at the koelnmesse every

As curators and organisers of the Interna@onal Women’s Film Fes@val Dortmund/Cologne, we value the diversity of the film scene in the film state of NRW and our cri@cal, crea@ve discourse with colleagues working here.

Silke Johanna Räbiger, Director of the Interna Pilot funding programme for innova+ve TV formats > Pilot funding programme for gradua+on films from NRW film academies > Bursary for the development of web videos, Wim Wenders scholarship, Gerd Ruge scholarship > Innova+on programme Create.Media.NRW > Promo+onal awards and scholarships for start-ups and young entrepreneurs > NRW.Bank – financial partner of the crea+ve industries > NRW.Invest supports companies re-loca+ng to the region > Commi,ed state media and loca+on policy

supported since 2012. In 2014, the na+on’s first bursary for the development of web videos was awarded in coopera+on with the European Web Video Academy. The same year saw the launch of a programme suppor+ng gradua+on films from NRW film academies. The Wim Wenders Founda+on joined forces with the Film- und Mediens+ung to award scholarships from 2014 to promote innova+ve cinema+c language.

Mediencluster NRW

Since 1999, the Film Commission NRW has served under the umbrella of the Films+ung as the first port of call for na+onal and interna+onal crea+ves. It provides support in scou+ng loca+ons in the region, applying for shoo+ng permits and establishing contacts to service-providers.

The Cologne-based Mediengründerzentrum NRW supports start-ups and young companies in the areas of cinema, TV, new media and games with grants, seminars, consulta+on and coaching. The programme has an annual intake of 12 media companies.

Since 1992, the Films+ung has also housed one of Germany’s five Crea+ve Europe Desks who offer comprehensive advice in the prepara+on of funding applica+ons for Brussels and network support for European coopera+on.

The NRW.Bank also offers appropriate possibili+es of public funding and private capital loans to start-ups and medium-sized businesses in NRW. Among other things, it supports promising start-ups with micro and start-up loans such as the crea+ve credit.

Film Commission NRW

Creave Europe Desk

Create.Media.NRW funding compeon

2012 saw the launch of the Digital Media innova+on programme, ini+ated by the Land of NRW and financed by the EU, to support NRW-based small and mediumsized enterprises, training and research ins+tu+ons in the realisa+on of their projects and business concepts. The funding compe++on was con+nued in 2014 under the new name of CreateMedia.NRW. North Rhine-Westphalia is the leading media loca+on in Germany. Companies will find outstanding loca+on factors here: superb public transport links and infrastructure, a highlydefined research scene, a qualified workforce, and a unique quality of life. Petra Wassner, CEO NRW.Invest

The Mediencluster NRW is the regional contact point for the digital media scene in NRW. Start-ups, young crea+ves and companies are offered a comprehensive range of services and informa+on. It creates visibility for the industry at trade fairs at home and abroad and makes an ac+ve contribu+on for the networking and further development of NRW as a digital hub.

Mediengründerzentrum NRW

NRW.Bank

NRW.INVEST

As the federal state’s own business development corpora+on, NRW.INVEST offers a one-stop service to poten+al investors from home and abroad by providing loca+on informa+on and help in the search for premises as well as liaison and assistance in nego+a+ons and permit procedures. < The varied media landscape in NRW offers the best opportuni+es for training and qualifica+on. This represents an essen+al basis for a sustainable development of the produc+on hub. Young media professionals find ideal condi+ons here for entrepreneurial development and sectoral prospects.

Joachim Ortmanns, CEO Mediengründerzentrum NRW

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Contacts State Chancellery NRW Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media in the Federal State of NRW Dr. Angelica Schwall-Düren Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media State/Representa@ve at federal level StadAor 1 | 40219 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211-837-161 0 Personal advisor: Dr. Deniz Alkan Press officer: Nina Heil

Dr. Marc Jan Eumann State Secretary for the Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media Telephone +49-211-837-151 3 Telephone +49-030-275 75-170 (Berlin) Dr. Benedikt Berg-Walz Referatsleiter Medienwirtscha, Am Fürstenwall 21 | 40219 Düsseldorf Telephone + 49-211-837 117 3 [email protected] www.mbem.nrw.de/medien/

The promo@on of North Rhine-Westphalia as a media loca@on is a departmental task of the Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media, Dr. Angelica Schwall-Düren. Among other things, media policy covers the development of media law, media industry funding and loca@on development, the alloca@on of frequencies for radio broadcas@ng and accompanying the digitalisa@on of broadcas@ng, as in DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcas@ng – Terrestrial), for example. Film funding, especially with respect to educa@on and training in the media industry, is a further focus of media policy, as is the promo@ng of media competence among the state’s ci@zens. As a central event for the media industry, the annual Medienforum NRW in Cologne is supported by the state. Minister Dr. Angelica Schwall-Düren and her State Secretary Dr. Marc Jan Eumann are supported in mee@ng their departmental responsibili@es by the media department in the State Chancellery.

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Garrelt Duin Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry Horionplatz 1 | 40213 Düsseldorf Telephone + 49-211-837 02 Press officer: MaAhias Kietzmann Claudia Nussbauer Head of Sec@on Crea@ve Industries Haroldstraße 4 | 40213 Düsseldorf Telephone + 49-211-837-2778 [email protected] www.wirtscha,.nrw.de

Crea4ve.NRW – Crea4ve industries cluster Chris@an Boros Clustermanager Hofaue 63 | 42103 Wuppertal Telephone +49-202-248 432 0 boros@[email protected] [email protected] Werner Lippert Clustermanager Hofaue 63 | 42103 Wuppertal Telephone +49-202-248 432 0 lippert@[email protected] [email protected]

IKT.NRW – ICT cluster Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Wolff Clustermanager Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Str. 2-4 | 47475 Kamp-Lin?ort Telephone +49-231-975056 0 [email protected] www.ikt.nrw.de

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The name says it all: the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Industry formulates the basic principles of economic policy, sets the agenda for regional economic and structural policy, and provides the parameters for industry, commerce, cra,s, trade and services to operate. Moreover, it is responsible for the energy industry, nuclear power and mining. We want to aAract crea@ve minds for industry, services and science – and to have those people at our side, who can contribute through their work to a NRW that is strong and ready for the future.

As a forward-looking industry funding programme which also views internal and external marke@ng as one of its key tasks, the cluster management makes a valuable contribu@on to the consolida@on and development of the region. The combina@on of economic strength and crea@ve industries is intended to aAract the best minds and help emerging companies in the field. The cluster management concentrates on the art market, adver@sing industry, design industry, fashion design, music business and book publishing.

The IKT.NRW cluster is the focus of informa@on and communica@on for all players in the growing field of ICT in North Rhine-Westphalia. Goals pursued by the IKT.NRW cluster include the early iden@fica@on and further development of exis@ng strengths, poten@al for synergies and trends in the ICT industry. IKT.NRW helps with networking between partners involved in the various fields of ICT or using cross-sec@onal technologies, and champions the ac@ve promo@on of innova@ve processes.

Film- und Mediens4"ung NRW GmbH Petra Müller CEO Telephone +49-211-930 50 11 petramueller@films@,ung.de

Chris@na Bentlage Head of Film Funding Telephone +49-211-930 50 20 chris@nabentlage@films@,ung.de

Sabine Bull Head of Marke@ng Telephone +49-211-930 50 17 sabinebull@films@,ung.de

Katharina Blum Head of Conferences and Events Telephone +49-211-930 50 48 katharinablum@films@,ung.de

Tanja Güß Head of Press and PR Telephone +49-211-930 50 23 tanjaguess@films@,ung.de

Film und Medien S@,ung NRW GmbH Kaistraße 14 40221 Düsseldorf Telephone +49- 211- 930 500 info@films@,ung.de www.films@,ung.de

Founded in 1991 and with an annual funding budget of 31 million Euros the Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW is one of the financially strongest regional film funding ins@tu@ons in Germany. Among its shareholders are WDR and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as ZDF, RTL and the state media authority, the Landesanstalt für Medien. The goal of the founda@on is to promote film and media culture as well as the film and media industry in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW is the central contact point for media in NRW. It provides funding for films for cinema and television in all stages of produc@on and exploita@on: from story and project development through produc@on to distribu@on and sales. In addi@on, there is support for cinemas. In 2011, Film- und Mediens@,ung NRW also became an integrated funding body for film and media and, a,er the takeover of Mediencluster NRW GmbH, opened up to the funding of innova@ve media content. Apart from funding measures, the Films@,ung’s brief also includes the marke@ng and development of the region NRW.

Within its responsibility for film and media in the federal state, the Films@,ung NRW also holds interests in numerous ins@tu@ons and companies: Mediencluster NRW, ifs interna@onale filmschule köln, Mediengründerzentrum NRW, Grimme-Ins@tut and German Films.

Heike Meyer-Döring Head of Crea@ve Europe Desk NRW Telephone +49-211-930 50 14 [email protected]

Mediencluster NRW GmbH Anastasia Ziegler CEO Kaistraße 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211- 930 50 301 [email protected] Till Hardy Consultant Kaistraße 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211- 930 50 42 @[email protected]

Mediengründerzentrum NRW GmbH Joachim Ortmanns CEO Schanzenstr. 36 | 51063 Köln Telephone +49-221- 611 07 48 [email protected] www.av-gruenderzentrum.de

The Mediencluster NRW is the regional contact point for the digital media and startup scene in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and located in Dusseldorf. They connect, consult and inform about funding and financing, and look a,er companies during the process of loca@ng, founding and expanding their business models.

The Mediencluster create visibility for the digital content industries at home and abroad, thereby helping to develop the media region in general. Their innova@ve network embraces large and small companies, na@onal and interna@onal players, media-related service providers, universi@es and research ins@tu@ons as well as funding and financing partners.

Launched in May 2006, the Mediengruenderzentrum NRW is aimed at start-ups and young companies from the media industry. Budding entrepreneurs are supported by accompanying consulta@on and the awarding of grants. Thanks to the close coopera@on with NRW’s media and communica@ons industry and targeted know-how transfer, the Mediengruenderzentrum prepares young professionals for the future.

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Contacts NRW.Bank Caroline Gesatzki Head of Press/Internal Communica@ons Kavalleriestraße 22 | 40213 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211-917 411 847 [email protected] www.nrwbank.de

NRW.INVEST GmbH

The NRW.BANK, the state development bank, offers medium-sized film and television producers financing products for the realiza@on of film and TV produc@ons. Those producers whose work features a strong reference to NRW are able to profit from aArac@ve financing schemes which are refinanced via the capital market.

Petra Wassner CEO Völklinger Str. 4 | 40219 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211-13000 0 [email protected] www.nrwinvest.com

As the state’s own business funding agency, NRW.INVEST markets North Rhine-Westphalia as a loca@on for investment and supports foreign and German companies in investment projects or when establishing themselves in NRW. This one-stop agency for investors guides companies through the en@re process of establishing themselves in the federal state, giving advice on tax and legal issues as well as providing informa@on about economic structures and industry clusters.

Dr. Christoph von der Heiden CEO Industry Publicity work, economics IHK Ostwes?alen zu Bielefeld Elsa-Brändström-Straße 1-3 | 33602 Bielefeld Telephone +49-521-554 220 [email protected] | www.bielefeld.ihk.de

IHK NRW - Die Industrie- und Handelskammern in Nordrhein-Wes?alen e.V. Marienstrasse 8 | 40212 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211-36702 0 [email protected] www.ihk-nrw.de

IHK NRW

Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Wes3alen (lfm) Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier Director Zollhof 2 | 40221 Düsseldorf Telephone +49-211-770 07-165 [email protected] www.lfm-nrw.de Dr. Peter Widlok Head of Publicity Telephone +49-211-770 07-141 [email protected]

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At the state level, the 16 chambers of industry and commerce in North Rhine-Westphalia have amalgamated into the IHK NRW (Industrie- und Handelskammer NRW) in order to assert the interests of the commercial economy in state poli@cs. The IHK advises and supports those seCng up in business, including within the crea@ve industries, and searches for innova@ve financing solu@ons.

The lfm is responsible for private radio and television. It decides upon the licensing of broadcasters, monitors and accompanies developments in the media through research ac@vi@es as well as by gran@ng awards such as the LfM-Hörfunkpreis for outstanding journalis@c achievements in private radio. Further areas of responsibility are the monitoring of Internet sites where the owner of the domain is based in NRW, and the promo@on of media competence.

Media representa4ves of the ci4es

> Stadt Aachen Fachbereich Presse und Marke@ng Harald Beckers Haus Löwenstein Markt 39 52062 Aachen Phone +49-241-432-13 11 harald.beckers@ mail.aachen.de

> Wirtscha)sförderung Arnsberg Ulrike Richtscheid Rathausplatz 2 59759 Arnsberg Phone +49-2932-201 222 1 [email protected] > Bielefeld Marke Stadt Bochum Herbert Schmitz Willy-Brandt-Platz 2-6 44777 Bochum Phone +49-234-910 358 1 [email protected]

> Stabsstelle Veranstaltungskoordina Dinamit GmbH Dinslaken Monika Melles Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 44-46 46535 Dinslaken Phone +49-2064-605 304 [email protected]

> Stadt Dortmund Hans-Werner Rixe Friedensplatz 3 44122 Dortmund Phone +49-231-502 581 4 [email protected]

> Gesellscha) für Wirtscha)sförderung Duisburg mbH Susanne Kirches Dr.-Hamacher-Straße 49 47051 Duisburg Phone +40-203-363 935 1 [email protected]

> Stadt Düsseldorf Theresa Winkels Marktplatz 1-2 40213 Düsseldorf Phone +49-211-899 305 6 theresa.winkels@ stadt.duesseldorf.de

> Kreis Düren Josef Kreutzer Bismarckstr. 16 52351 Düren Phone +49-2421-222 383 pressestelle@ kreis-dueren.de

> Stadt Lünen Simone KöAer Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 44532 Lünen Phone +49-2306-104 150 1 simone.koeAer.02@ luenen.de

> Fröndenberg an der Ruhr Bahnhofstraße 2 58730 Fröndenberg/Ruhr Phone +49-2373-976 224 [email protected]

> Kreis Me=mann Marion Strack Düsseldorferstraße 26 40822 MeAmann Phone +49-2104-992 030 kulturamt@ kreis-meAmann.de

> Filmservice Münster.Land Nicola Ebel Klemensstraße 10 48143 Münster Phone +49-251-492 138 0 [email protected]

> Essen Marke Stadt Hamm Katja Johannpeter Werler Straße 3 59065 Hamm Phone +49-2381-173 484 johannpeter@ stadt.hamm.de

> Pro Herford Stadtmarke Stadt Herne JuAa Daniel Rathaus Rathausplatz 44626 Herne Phone +49-2323-16-224 9 Phone +49-2323-16-258 3 [email protected] > Stadt Hürth Claudia Dahmann Christa Derigs Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 40 50354 Hürth Phone +49-2233-531 80 [email protected] [email protected]

> Wirtscha)sförderungsGesellscha) Stadt Kevelaer mbH Ruth Keuken Venloer Straße 33-35 47623 Kevelaer Phone +49-2832-953 7 0 [email protected]

> pro Wirtscha) GT GmbH Julia Peschke Herzebrocker Straße 140 33334 Gütersloh Phone +49-5241-851 086 julia.peschke@ pro-wirtscha,-gt.de

> Kreis Minden-Lübbecke Sabine Ohnesorge Portastraße 13 32423 Minden Phone +49-571-807-221 30 s.ohnesorge@ minden-luebbecke.de

> Köln Stabsstelle Medien Köln Roland Berger Stadthaus Deutz – Westgebäude Willy-Brandt-Platz 2 50679 Köln Phone +49-221-221-245 71 Roland.berger@ stadt-koeln.de

Stabsstelle Medien Köln Andreas Füser Stadthaus Deutz – Westgebäude Willy-Brandt-Platz 2 50679 Köln Phone +49-221-221-246 61 andreas.fueser@ stadt-koeln.de > KulturStadtLev Kulturbüro Anke Holgersson Am Büchelter Hof 9 51373 Leverkusen Phone +49-214-406 4170 anke.holgersson@ kulturstadtlev.de

> Mülheim an der Ruhr Volker Wiebels Ruhrstr. 1 45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr Phone +49-208-455 135 0 Volker.Wiebels@ stadt-mh.de

> WFMG Wirtscha)sförderung Mönchengladbach GmbH Pascal Hermanns Lüpertzender Straße 6 41061 Mönchengladbach Phone +49-2161-823 798 9 [email protected]

> Stadt Ne=etalWirtscha) und Marke Tourismus und Marke Stadt Recklinghausen Reinhold Hegemann Rathausplatz 3 45655 Recklinghausen Phone +49-2361-501 351 [email protected]

> Stadt Rees Ludger Beltermann Markt 1 46459 Rees Phone +49-2851-511 76 ludger.beltermann@ stadt-rees.de

> Wirtscha)sförderung Rhein-Er) GmbH Andrea Barisic Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 50126 Bergheim Phone +49-2271-994 99-11 aba@wfg-rhein-er,.de

> Rhein-Kreis Neuss Robert Abts Oberstraße 91 41460 Neuss Phone +49-2131-928 750 0 robert.abts@ wfg-rhein-kreis-neuss.de

> Kreis Siegen-Wi=genstein Hans-Peter Langer Koblenzer Straße 73 57072 Siegen Phone +49-271-333 116 1 hp.langer@ Siegen-WiAgenstein.de

> Wfg Wirtscha)sförderung Kreis Soest GmbH Sonja Peck Villa Plange Sigefridwall 20 59494 Soest Phone +49-2921-30-226 1 [email protected] > Stadt Viersen Axel Greuvers Heimbachstr. 12 41747 Viersen Phone +49-2162-101 463 [email protected]

> Stadt Wiehl Angelika Stückemann Zentrale Koordina@on Bahnhofstr. 1 51674 Wiehl Phone +49-2262-992 55 [email protected]

> Wuppertal Lutz Ahr c/o Bergische Entwicklungsagentur GmbH Kölner Str. 8 42651 Solingen Phone +49-212-881 606 70 [email protected]

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