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The

Göttingen Studios The Göttingen Studios were film studios located in the German city of Göttingen. The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an aeroplane hangar on the outskirts of Göttingen. The studios were founded by the ...

were

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located in the German city of

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

. The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an aeroplane

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on the outskirts of Göttingen. The studios were founded by the

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producers

Hans Abich Hans Abich (4 August 1918 – 17 July 2003) was a German film producer.Rentschler p.13 Selected filmography * '' Love '47'' (1949) * ''Keepers of the Night'' (1949) * '' A Day Will Come'' (1950) * '' The Day Before the Wedding'' (1952) * '' His ...

and Rolf Thiele. Control of the studios soon expanded, and most of the films produced there were distributed by Deutsch Film Hansa. The city benefited by being comparatively lightly hit by Allied bombing during the

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. It was part of shift of film production out of

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, previously the dominant centre of German production, following the war and subsequent Cold War

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. It was the fourth largest centre of production in

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behind

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and

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, with nearly a hundred feature films produced there in a decade.Imhoof p.187 In 1961 when film production ceased at the site, it passed to the postal service

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. Later control transferred to the

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company

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References

Bibliography

* Imhoof, David. ''Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen Between the World Wars''. University of Michigan Press, 2013. * Meier, Gustav. ''Filmstadt Göttingen: Bilder für eine neue Welt? : zur Geschichte der Göttinger Spielfilmproduktion 1945 bis 1961''. Reichold, 1996. * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. German film studios {{film-studio-stub de:Filmatelier Göttingen