TV and film: TV and film company Ufa moves to Berlin – regret in Potsdam

The move of the TV and film production company Ufa (“Good times, bad times”, “Germany is looking for the superstar”) from Potsdam to Berlin comes across regret in Brandenburg. “This is mainly a strategic restart within the UFA,” said Brandenburg Minister of Economics Daniel Keller (SPD) of the German Press Agency. “This is intended to react to changed market conditions that can only be influenced to a limited extent from Brandenburg.”

However, the UFA bundles the activities of the UFA Serial Drama area at the location in Potsdam, where the production of the RTL series “Good times, bad times” (GZSZ) and the outside backdrop stay. The UFA had announced on Friday that in 2026 it will return to the capital at the Potsdam-Babelsberg media location at the media location in Potsdam-Babelsberg. “As a broad media company, we have to be where a lot happens – in the middle of the creative pulse of society,” said Chief Operating Officer Natalie Clausen.

UFA wants to realign itself

From the first half of 2026, the approximately 130 employees should work in new rooms on the Schöneberg bank. UFA has already had a location in Berlin. In Potsdam, around 40 employees are said to remain at UFA Serial Drama, plus the employees at GZSZ.

The UFA is one of the leading production companies for TV, cinema and streaming in German -speaking countries. It is the umbrella society of the German production activities of the media company Fremantle, which operates the global production business of the RTL Group belonging to Bertelsmann.