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Germany (D), Austria (A) and Switzerland (CH) share a language as well as a cultural space. In an economically challenging environment and competitive market, co-productions have become all the more important for public broadcasters.
The panel gave insights in the workflow between public broadcasters and production companies from shaping stories for all three markets with a common and yet so different language to financing.
The experts panel itself consisted of Katharina Schenk, Head of Fiction (ORF), Baptiste Planche, Head of Fiction (SRF), Claudia Luzius, Commissioning Editor (BR), Daniela Mussgiller, Head of Department Fiction, Licenses and Children (MDR), Catrin Strasser, Producer (MR-Film), and Samuel Schultschik, Showrunner (Superfilm).
The collaboration was illustrated by using two recent examples, the hit series "Days That Never Were" (ORF/ARD, 2022) as well as "School of Champions" (ORF/BR/SRF, in production) with an exclusive look at first clips of filming to date. Both series are distributed worldwide by ORF-Enterprise.
“By pooling resources and sharing the financial burden, broadcaster from the ‘DACH’-region enable us to produce truly outstanding and universal stories – always including the unique local cultural aspects and language,” Catrin Strasser, Producer at MR-Film (“Days That Never Were”), on cross-country collaboration among public broadcasters.
“Being in midst of production of the series ‘School of Champions’, I can already say that it has been worth taking the challenges of collaboration with three public broadcasters, who have been involved in the upcoming series from the very beginning. The broadcasters’ commitment allows me to raise the production value to the next level,” adds Samuel Schultschik, Showrunner at Superfilm (“School of Champions”).
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