Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Cooperates with TeleVisionale Film and Series Festival
The TeleVisionale film and media festival will take place this year from 1 to 5 December in Weimar, right next door to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. This traditional festival, which is being held in Weimar for the first time this year, provides a wonderful opportunity to initiate projects that will allow students to contribute to the programme and the festival week. The Faculty of Media and the Faculty of Art and Design will also be participating.
Medienkultur Students Analyse Public Cultural Offers
At the Faculty of Media, Medienkultur Bachelor degree programme students will join the festival from an academic perspective: As part of a practical module, the students are working closely together with ARD. In the accompanying workshop with programme director Bettina Kasten and editor Ineke Hagedorn in October, the students took an in-depth look at the tasks and challenges of public cultural broadcasting. In a design thinking process, they developed ideas for a cultural platform that directly reaches young target groups. The students' findings will be presented on 4 December at the ARD Kultur reception at TeleVisionale. The practical module is led by Prof. Lorenz Engell from the Professorship of Media Philosophy at the Faculty of Media.
POST IN DER POST: Interactive Exhibition Space in the Centre of Weimar
Art and Design students will be directly involved in the festival week: They will be transforming the empty rooms of a former gym into a temporary exhibition and meeting space. Centrally located in Weimar’s post office building at Goetheplatz, the space is in the heart of the city. Every day starting at 5 pm, interactive installations, performances, and video contributions from the fields of Cross-Media Moving Image and Creative Coding can be taken in under the title »POST IN DER POST«. Guests can watch live as the young filmmakers produce a documentary about the festival and discuss it over a drink in a small bar. On Thursday, 4 December 2025, the programme at the post office will also include a live music set by students from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
In the Middle of all the Festival Action? Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Students
The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will also be participating in the TELEVISIONALE BRANCHENTAGEN. In the foyer of the Weimarhalle, festival participants will be able to view a monitor wall consisting of nine tube televisions. Students will also be showing freshly edited material directly from the festival grounds every day, taking an experimental look at the medium of television. Insights into the student-produced series »A CURE FOR LONELINESS« will also be given during a panel discussion.
The projects and documentation of the »POST IN DER POST« exhibition are supervised by Ting-Chin Liu. The panel discussion on the »A CURE FOR LONELINESS« series is organised by Polina Horosina.
POST IN DER POST
Exhibition Dates: 1 to 5 December 2025
Hours: Daily from 5 pm onwards
Special Event: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 8 pm, live music by University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar students
Location: Goetheplatz 8, 1st floor , 99423 Weimar
Video installation in the foyer of the Weimarhalle
Exhibition Dates: 1 to 5 December 2025
Hours: During the opening house of the TeleVisionale
Location: Foyer of the Weimarhalle, Unesco-Platz 1 99423 Weimar
Panel: »Serie ohne Auftrag studentisches Produzieren in Thüringen. Im Osten nichts Neues«
Time: Monday, 1 December 2025, 4:45 to 5:15 pm
Location: mon ami cinema, Goetheplatz 11, 99423 Weimar
https://televisionale.de/timetable/branchentage#c255
Panel: »Weimar stellt sich vor – Einblicke in die Film- und Festivalszene der Stadt«
Time: Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 10 am to 12 pm
Location: North Wing Hall, Weimarhalle, Unesco-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
Joining from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar:
Prof. Lorenz Engell (Media Philosophy), Prof. Jörn Hintzer and Prof. Jakob Hüfner (Cross-Media Moving Image), Mavie-Madeleine Beisheim, Anneliese John (Film-Initiative Weimar), Ana María Vallejo and Catalina Giraldo Vélez (International Thuringian PoetryFilmTage)
All screenings, jury discussions, talks, and events are open to all those interested and are free of charge.
About the TeleVisionale
TeleVisionale is considered the most important festival and leading industry gathering for television films and series from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In addition to representatives from television stations and streaming services, numerous film and television professionals, directors, producers, writers, and actors are expected to attend the event in Weimar. The TeleVisionale's public and industry events offer an important networking opportunity for film enthusiasts and television professionals. Prominent guests and a series and television film jury featuring big names from the worlds of acting, culture, and media are also expected to attend. The TeleVisionale will culminate in an awards ceremony on 5 December 2025 at the Deutsche Nationaltheater in Weimar, attended by guests from the worlds of film, radio, television, and politics.
The TeleVisionale is a joint event organised by the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste (German Academy of the Performing Arts) and the television channel 3sat. The television film and series festival is supported by: Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung MDM, Thüringer Staatskanzlei, the City of Weimar, MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten, BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, Sparkasse Mittelthüringen, Saxonia Media, MDR Media, UFA Mitte, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, Arte.
Event partners are ARD Kultur, Produktionsallianz, IAMA International Academy of Media & Arts, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, MENT Mediennetzwerk Thüringen, Deutsches Kinder Medien Festival Goldener Spatz, FBW Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung, DNT Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Weimar GmbH, Lichthaus Kino, Mon Ami, Evented. Media partners are Antenne Thüringen, epd Medien, IndieFilmTalk, KNA, Radio Lotte, SPOT Media & Film, Serienjunkies.de and TV Spielfilm. Further information can be found under: www.televisionale.de