Two of Germany’s main producers, Michael Polle, whose credit embrace European Movie Award winner “Babylon Berlin,” and Mischa Hofmann, a German Movie Award winner with “John Rabe,” have mixed forces to arrange the manufacturing firm Polle & Hofmann Photos.
Polle was most just lately managing director on the manufacturing firm X Filme Inventive Pool, whereas Hofmann was managing director of Odeon Fiction. Each producers labored collectively on “Streets of Berlin,” which aired on ARD in primetime, attracting as much as 10 million viewers and taking a market share of round 27%.
In 1996, Hofmann based Hofmann & Voges Leisure along with Philip Voges, which was taken over by Odeon Movie in 2007. Till just lately, Hofmann was managing director of Odeon Fiction. He has labored as a producer in many various genres. Over 200 TV and cinema productions have been made beneath his aegis as managing director from movies comparable to “Erkan & Stefan,” “Wo Ist Fred?” and “John Rabe” to collection comparable to “Streets of Berlin,” “Turkish for Rookies,” “Spy Metropolis” and most just lately “Die Saat.” His productions have been honoured with the German Movie Award, the German Tv Award and the Bavarian Movie Award.
Polle labored as a producer at Bavaria Movie from 2005, then in the identical place at Hofmann & Voges Leisure from 2007. Amongst different reveals, he was concerned in “Streets of Berlin” and produced the Grimme Prize and German Tv Crime Award-winning “Tatort: Nie wieder frei sein.” In Could 2010, Polle moved to X Filme Inventive Pool, the place he initially headed the TV division and was appointed managing director in 2021. His productions there included the Grimme Award-nominated “Tatort – Die Wahrheit,” “Wunschkinder” and “Tatort – Unklare Lage” in addition to the collection “Babylon Berlin” and “Tina Mobil.”
Internationally, he produced the collection “Furia” with Monster Scripted (Norway), ZDF and Viaplay, which premiered within the competitors of Sequence Mania Pageant in 2021. Most just lately, he produced along with True Content material Leisure (Denmark), Epo Movie (Austria) in addition to ZDF, DR and New8 the German-Danish collection “Different Folks’s Cash,” which premiered in Panorama at this yr’s Berlinale.
Polle is deputy chairman of the TV part of the German Producers Alliance.
Hofmann stated: “I’ve identified Michael since 2005, when he produced ‘Streets of Berlin’ at Hofmann & Voges. We haven’t overlooked one another since then. Now we see the precise time to work collectively once more as a result of we now have the identical view of initiatives and producing basically. We each need to act independently and focus on content material and inventive allies. We depend on very shut relationships with extraordinary abilities. We wish high quality over amount and to be the primary port of name for companions who worth and share this angle.”
Polle added: “It has at all times been our imaginative and prescient to construct a house for creatives the place we are able to create one thing particular collectively and on an equal footing. Tales that transfer, that push boundaries, which have an emotional signature, however don’t lose sight of the viewers – be it in cinema or streaming/TV. The spectrum ranges from nationwide to worldwide productions. It’s about bringing a shared imaginative and prescient of a narrative to life and sending it out into the world from Germany. Mischa and I already agreed on all of this again within the Hofmann & Voges days, and so now we’ve each come full circle in an exquisite means.”
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