The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is moving to Cologne
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After initial unconfirmed media reports, it is now certain: The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is to move from Düsseldorf's Medienhafen to Cologne's Deichmannhaus. This was announced at a press conference today. An Update.
The relocation of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW at the beginning of 2025 was confirmed at a press conference in Cologne City Hall by Nathanael Liminski, NRW Minister of Media and Head of the State Chancellery, Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker and Filmstiftung Managing Director Walid Nakschbandi. The new address of the Film- und Medienstiftung will in future be the postcode 50667: In the ‘Deichmannhaus’ on the station forecourt, in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine, the cathedral and the main station, all employees will move to the 5th floor in the future.
‘We are leaving Düsseldorf with mixed feelings. Now, 33 years after our foundation, we are moving up the Rhine to Germany's number one media capital and are very much looking forward to our new location in the centre of Cologne, between the Rhine, the cathedral and the main railway station. But above all, we are also looking forward to our new neighbours: many producers, gamers and creators, and not least the major TV broadcasters,’ says Walid Nakschbandi.
Original news from 7 June 9:00 a.m.:
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW will be celebrating its annual summer party next week on Tuesday in Cologne's Wolkenburg. This makes sense because Cologne is NRW's number one TV and media centre. So it seems only logical that Cologne's Mayor Henriette Reker and NRW Media Minister Nathaniel Liminski are to announce today at a press conference, according to unconfirmed reports in the Cologne daily newspapers: One of the largest state funding programmes with a funding volume of 35 million euros will be based in Cologne in the future. Apparently, the Deichmannhaus at Cologne's main railway station will be the foundation's future home.
As is so often the case, external circumstances have apparently led to this move. It is said that the rooms in the Medienhafen could no longer be used. Negotiations with the landlord were apparently unsatisfactory. The city of Cologne probably stepped into the breach and went to great lengths to attract state funding to the location. The city of Düsseldorf, on the other hand, is said to have been less committed.
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