German mini-most fundamental Leonine has acquired Hyperbole Medien, Bastian Asdonk’s Berlin-basically based entirely tv production firm most engaging identified for its nonfiction and entertainment codecs.
The deal, which goes into end June 1, will see Leonine non-public stout take a watch on of Hyperbole, producer of award-winning documentary assortment Germania and political focus on contemporary 13 Fragen (13 Questions). The firm produces mainly for German public broadcasters, at the side of ZDF, ZDFneo, zdf.kultur, NDR, SWR and MDR besides as for company purchasers, at the side of Sony Tune, Red Bull and New Balance.
Financial fundamental components of the deal were now no longer disclosed. Asdonk will elevate on as managing director of Hyperbole and be joined on the firm board by Leonine chief digital officer Christian Meinberger.
“[Hyperbole] has a transparent profile, a sense of the zeitgeist and is a winning mix of innovation and excessive-quality journalistic codecs. The inventive crew at Hyperbole is a immense fit for us,” said Leonine CEO Fred Kogel. “Together we can lengthen our contemporary IP with contemporary codecs and, wrong-medial, lengthen the attain of our insist.”
Leonine provides Hyperbole to its growing right of tv and film production firms. The German studio, owned by non-public equity neighborhood KKR, already controls German TV outfits i&u TV, Madame Zheng Manufacturing, Odeon Fiction, internet internet page positioning Entertainment, W&B Television, besides as Wiedemann & Berg Movie.
