ARTE is a Franco-German and European Adventure. Public service streaming platform and TV channel ARTE supports creativity and culture in all forms. Programmes are available on all devices and screens throughout Europe and beyond. The founding fathers of ARTE believed that a joint television channel should bring French and German citizens closer on a cultural level and promote cultural integration throughout Europe.
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.
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.
European Film Award for Best European Film, Best Director (Ruben Östlund), Best Script (Ruben Östlund) and Best Actor (Zlatko Burić), European Film Awards 2022, Reykjavik, Iceland
Partnership agreements with Spanish and Lithuanian public broadcaster
On 29 June 2022 ARTE is entering into partnership agreements with the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE (Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española) and the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT (Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija).
By doing so, it is strengthening its Europe-wide commitment true to its mission “to promote understanding and bring the peoples of Europe together.”
Emelie de Jong becomes Programme Director, Marysabelle Cote Administrative Director of ARTE GEIE
January 2022
Emelie de Jong becomes Programme Director and member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2022. Marysabelle Cote becomes Administrative Director and member of the Management Board.
Five awards for ARTE from the "Club des Directeurs Artistiques"
Paris, July 2021
Every year, the “Club des Directeurs Artistiques” awards the most creative design works and advertising campaigns. In 2021, ARTE receives five awards in the category “Motion Design”:
Gold for the Summer of Dreams trailer (2020)
Design: Funny Bones agency, concept and direction: Samuel Bernardeau (ARTE), text: Delphine Werner (ARTE), voice-over: Barbara Carlotti
Silver for the Lockdown spot (2020)
Concept and direction: Jean-Baptiste Séjourné (Gaston Production),
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.
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.
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.