ARTE

Milestones

ARTE is a Franco-German and European Adventure. Public service TV channel ARTE supports creativity and culture in all forms. Programs are broadcast 24/7 on all types of screens throughout Europe and beyond. The founding fathers of ARTE, François Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl and Lothar Späth, believed that a joint television channel should bring French and German citizens closer on a cultural level and promote cultural integration throughout Europe. Creating a television channel for two audiences was a first in television’s history and is still an exception in the global TV market to this date.

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2024
Executives
Heike Hempel becomes Vice President of ARTE GEIE
January 2024

Heike Hempel, Head of the main editorial department for TV films/Series II at ZDF, becomes Vice President of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2024. She succeeds Peter Weber, Head of Legal Affairs at ZDF.

2023
Partnerships
ARTE expands its European partner network

ARTE signs an association agreement with Latvian public broadcaster Latvijas Televīziju – LTV.

2022
Celebrating 30 years of ARTE
30 May 2022

Born of a Franco-German partnership in 1990 with the signing of an inter-state treaty, it was with the launch of broadcasting on 30 May 1992 that ARTE, the European Culture Channel, became a reality for all French and German viewers.

Today, still faithful to its values of quality, creativity and diversity, ARTE offers content in six languages on a large number of platforms.

2021
Programmes
Brotherhood

Golden Leopard – competition “Cineasti del presente”, Locarno Film Festival 2021, Switzerland

Coproduction: ARTE

Programmes
Natural Light (Természetes fény)
by Dénes Nagy

Silver Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2021, Germany

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE

Programmes
Titane
by Julia Ducournau

Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2021

Coproduction: ARTE France Cinéma

Executives
Bruno Patino becomes President, Peter Weber Vice President of ARTE GEIE
January 2021

Bruno Patino, President of ARTE France, becomes President of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2021. Peter Weber, Head of Legal Affaires at the ZDF, becomes Vice President.

Executives
Tom Buhrow and Nicolas Seydoux take the chairmanship of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
January 2021

Tom Buhrow, President of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Chairman of the German association of public broadcasters ARD, becomes Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE. Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont becomes Vice Chairman.

2020

ARTE celebrates 30 years since the signing of its founding treaty between France and Germany!
2nd October 2020

ARTE is a symbol of Franco-German friendship. The project, which had been championed since 1988 by French President François Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, came to fruition on 2 October 1990, when an Interstate Treaty was signed between France and the German Länder.

Programmes
There Is No Evil (Sheytan vojud nadarad)
by Mohammad Rasoulof

Golden Bear for Best Film, Berlinale 2020, Berlin, Germany

Corproduction: ZDF/ARTE

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