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The film publishing house of the authors is a German film rental business, which is active as a film producer also in the trade with film rights (licenses) and. An emphasis of the repertoire is the new German film. 1971 in Munich as self-help organization of the German author film based, belong the film publishing house since 1999 to the entrepreneurial group cinema world (Leipzig).

Prehistory and establishment

The film publishing house of the authors developed in a paging phase of the Filmwirtschaft in the Federal Republic of Germany. After the German film to the Second World War to the artistic Bedeutungslosigkeit come was, a new generation of film-creative grew up, which was film script authors, directors and producers in a person. For its films realized usually with little money there were only few play places, since the large city cinemas were firmly bound to few large rental business companies. Cash hits arrived only after evaluation lasting for weeks in the smaller cities. As reaction program cinemas (commercial) developed and local cinemas (not commercial). The Autorenfilmer found only heavy for their ambitionierten projects production funds and lenders.

Before this background 13 film producers signed the partner contract on 18 April 1971 in Munich for the establishment of the film publishing house of the authors. The signers were rake Bohm, Michael Fengler, Peter Lilienthal, Hans Noever, Pete Ariel, Uwe Brandner, Veith of prince mountain, Florian Thomas Schamoni, Laurens Straub, Wim of Wenders, Hans's W. and Volker Vogeler. After the model Frankfurt publishing house of the authors they wanted to organize production, right administration and selling of own films together. Managing director became Michael Fengler.

The first film of production 1 in the film publishing house of the authors was fear lots fliers of Veith of prince mountain and Martin Mueller.

The first years

From the outset the film publishing house of the authors under a Unterfinanzierung suffered. The capital stock was applied by a credit by 30.000 DM. Each partner should deposit 20,000 DM as adhesion insert - an obligation, which was not redeemed however.

Brought in profits should be disbursed ever to the half to the film publishing house and the respective film producer: A compromise between the genossenschaftlichen idea and single interests. Also in the subsequent years the renowned directors published their films from solidarity further with the film publishing house, although they would have gotten from US-American rental business companies more moneys. The economic situation of the enterprise remained uncertainly nevertheless.

1972 became Laurens Straub managing director.

1974 became the film publishing house of the authors in a GmbH & a CO. Kg reorganized. Only seven partners remained in the business: Rake Bohm, Uwe Brandner, Rainer Werner barrel binder (new), Michael Fengler, Hans's W. Hans Noever and Wim of Wenders. The new society exclusively concentrated on the rental business. There was three emphasis:

Films of the renowned directors of the new German film
First works
Good foreign films, usually experimentally and critically

August stone

In February 1977 Rudolf August stone, the publisher of the news magazine of the mirrors took part, as a private person with 55 per cent of the company capital of 600.000 euro in the film publishing house of the authors. It saved the enterprise thereby from the inability to pay. Rainer Werner barrel binder separated as a partner. Rake Bohm, remained remaining Uwe Brandner, Hans's W. and Wim of Wenders. As new managing directors Theo Hinz and Matthias Ginsberg were used. The repertoire should be supplemented around commercial, but fastidious films.

1977/78 engaged itself the film publishing house again as a producer. The documentary film Germany in the autumn, a joint venture work of several directors of the new German film, came 1978 into the cinemas. In the same year the film publishing house created the subsidiary pro ject film production. It produced the film the candidate, who itself after the model of Germany in the autumn with the candidacy of Franz Josef bunch as a Federal Chancellor busy.

Beside these "political" films the enterprise pursued a more strongly commercially aligned course in the August stone era further. Hoped for economic success came starting from 1980 with films such as Theo against the remainder of the world (over 3 million spectator) and men. In the subsequent years the film publishing house departed increasingly from the conceptions of its founders and took also productions such as terminator and the turbogeile rubber boat under contract.

Theo Hinz separated in February 1983 with the film publishing house of the authors and created in August its own rental business Futura film. First film in the program was the power of the feelings of Alexander intelligent one.

1986 sold Rudolf August stone its portions of the film publishing house to the Futura film.

1989 created the film publishing house the medium company Felix film with the goal of spreading the Soviet film more strongly in the Federal Republic.

Cinema world

In October 1999 the cinema world media AG transferred the film publishing house of the authors. Johannes wax became in January a 2000 managing director. To the film stick of approximately 300 titles practically all classical authors of the new one of German film belong. The label film publishing house of the authors went first to the kind house film rental business, a subsidiary of the cinema world.

After the restart of the cinema world as GmbH on 1 July 2003 in Leipzig the film publishing house firmiert as film publishing house of the authors and Futura film GmbH & CO. Rental business marketing company kg with three subsidiaries: