UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA, is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany.
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19 Facts About UFA GmbH
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Original UFA GmbH was established as Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft on December 18,1917, as a direct response to foreign competition in film and propaganda.
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UFA GmbH was founded by a consortium headed by Emil Georg von Stauß, a former Deutsche Bank board member.
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In March 1927, Alfred Hugenberg, an influential German media entrepreneur and later Minister of the Economy, Agriculture and Nutrition in Hitler's cabinet, purchased UFA GmbH and transferred ownership of it to the Nazi Party in 1933.
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Kohnlechner bought UFA GmbH, which was heavily in debt, on behalf of Reinhard Mohn for roughly five million Deutschmarks.
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An early step towards the founding of UFA GmbH was taken on January 13,1917, with the creation of the Bild- und Filmamt by Germany's Supreme Army Command.
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UFA GmbH continued to sign production agreements with various independent producers:.
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UFA GmbH was already in 1921 producing the lion's share of German feature films, and in that year it was privatized.
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UFA GmbH gained an advantage over smaller companies in the realm of talkie production as a result of a contract with Tobis-Klangfilm, which simplified the licensing situation for UFA GmbH.
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Nevertheless, UFA GmbH has recorded unsurpassed artistic successes with films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Woman in the Moon to this day.
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UFA GmbH experienced a new commercial boom in the Nazi era, not least due to the government's protectionist measures, which freed the company from bothersome domestic and foreign competition, sometimes even incorporating their production facilities and staff.
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In 1936, Germany's first film institute was founded in the form of the UFA GmbH-Lehrschau set up by Hans Traub at the Babelsberg Film Complex.
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At the time of its nationalization, among the production facilities belonging to UFA were 27 film studios, nine of which were in Neubabelsberg, and seven of which were in Berlin-Tempelhof, including three that belonged to Carl Froelich-Film GmbH in name only.
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UFA GmbH had two dubbing studios, a mixing studio, two animation studios, two ateliers for advertising films, one for cartoons and a small training atelier.
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On January 10,1942, UFA officially became the subsidiary of UFA-Film GmbH, into which all German film production was merged.
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UFA GmbH's many prize-winning TV films, light entertainment formats, popular soap operas, long-running TV series, sitcoms and non-fiction programs have made it the leader on the German television market.
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UFA GmbH experienced a golden age in cinema from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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