When a snowstorm paralyzes the airport, the travelers' stories intertwine into a heart-warming story. [...]
Our productions could not be more diverse – Everything from the award-winning dramedy and mystery thriller to modern family series and theatrical movies. But they all have one thing in common: the passion that we put into them.
When a snowstorm paralyzes the airport, the travelers' stories intertwine into a heart-warming story. [...]
It doesn't matter if you're different! This is shown by the new dramedy series “Toni´s World”. The shooting of the Spin-Off started in August 2020. [...]
“SOKO Potsdam“ is the ninth and youngest offshoot of the successful television crime series SOKO 5113 from 1978. [...]
A turbulent culture clash family comedy [...]
The second season of the RTL sitcom "Secretaries – Surviving from 9 to 5! [...]
Love doesn't always stick to the recipe. [...]
Big names on the German screen Jürgen Vogel and Bettina Lamprecht are the leads in this modern family drama series. [...]
In this prequel to the successful TV series, the individual fates of the members of the later "Red Bracelets" and how they came together are told. [...]
Inspector Elias and his dog Rocky go on a foray through Berlin in this Sat.1 action comedy- series. [...]
December 24th, an airport somewhere in Germany: Travelers, employees and visitors rush past each other, some looking forward to Christmas Eve, others just wanting to see this day behind them. But then heavy snowfall sets in and a serious accident occurs on the access road to the airport. All flights are canceled, and getting away is out of the question. People are stuck - with all their dreams and desires, their secrets and their very personal stories...
ARD – Degeto
Gerda Müller
Christmas Movie
Ivo Kortlang and Amber Bongard take on the leading roles of Toni, Asperger‘s autist, and Valerie, who has Tourette‘s syndrome, in the eight-part series. The viewers have already taken the two in their hearts in the successful series “Red Bracelets” and are now getting to know Toni and Valerie anew on their turbulent path into adulthood in the spin-off “Toni´s World”.
“Toni´s World” is a story about a young love that you want to hold onto, an old love that you have to let go, about innumerable faux pas, old friendships that fail even though you try to adapt. And new friendships that arise precisely because you dare to be so completely different.
VOX in Cooperation with TVNow
Gerda Müller
Drama TV Series
One of the central characters in this gripping detective series is the picturesque city of Potsdam. Here the childhood friends Luna Kunath and Sophie Pohlmann work together to solve a string of crimes. While Luna is strong-willed and thinks on her feet, she can be a little naïve. Although more mature, Sophie’s reflectiveness can be a weakness in situations that demand decisive action. Together the two women form part of an impressive crime-busting team.
ZDF
Gerda Müller
Crime Series
The focus of the turbulent family comedy is the young German-Persian couple Viola and Faraz, who are unmarried but live together and are just happy about the birth of their first child – a son.
But shortly after the happy event, turmoil began to appear when the families of the two met. On the one hand the entrepreneurial family Helmrich – conservative, catholic and led by family patriarch Holger. For them there is absolutely no question, that the grandchild will have a German first name. And Grandmother Beatrice is already planning on a festive christening. On the other hand, there is the Mandipur family, with father Masud and mother Anoushe, for whom it is at least as clear that their grandson is traditionally given a Persian first name, is a Muslim and of course is also circumcised.
For the young parents a nerve-wracking balancing act begins between the sensitivities, which they themselves stumble through and taking care of themselves and their happiness.
ARD – Degeto
Gerda Müller
Family Comedy Movie Cycle
Two families with fundamentally opposed views, must adjust to a new everyday life after a far-right populist party in Berlin is surprisingly elected with an absolute majority and takes over government.
ZDFneo shows all four episodes of the mini-series as "neoriginal".
ZDFneo / ZDF
Lasse Scharpen, Gerda Müller
Drama Mini- Series
The stories about the everyday office life of the likeable secretary Katja Neumann, her two headstrong colleagues Nicole Sane and Melanie Weigand and of her choleric boss Wolf Berger at Sonnenschein Toast AG continue, according to the motto "surviving from 9 to 5!".
RTL
Eva Holtmann
Sitcom – TV Series
When a gourmet guide mistakes a high-class restaurant with a home- style eatery just because they share the same name, both owners are shocked. Now former star chef Rufus loses his prestigious status and clients, while down-to-earth Toni is afraid to scare offs her working-class regulars due to a flood of snooty foodies. To stir up the public interest, Rufus tries to butter off Toni to get her to participate in a cook-off – which no doubt will be humiliating for her! But when Toni starts to fall for his charms, Rufus starts to notice that stars are not the only thing worth fighting for. Because love doesn't always stick to the recipe and there's plenty of ways to reach for the stars!
ARD- Degeto
Jan Kromschröder, Eva Holtmann
Romantic Comedy Movie Cycle
The story follows a group of teenage friends, their everyday life and current events. It deals with friendship, love and the search for the own identity.
Every season centers around a different character of the group.
Especially the distribution method of Druck differs to usual known series. Druck is shown in real-time through short clips on a nearly daily basis on YouTube, including the messages between the characters. Additionally, real social media accounts of the fictional characters allow viewers greater insight into the show beyond its clips.
Funk/ ZDF/ ZDFneo
Lasse Scharpen, Jan Kromschröder
Coming of Age – Web & TV Series
This TV drama series - full of warmth, charm, pain, humour and passion - investigates, what makes us who we are, explores the issue of identity, and questions personal ambition and our ability to turn our lives around in later years. Kurt and Sandra Fankhauser have been married for almost twenty years and live in Bonn with their three children. Their everyday joys and displeasures are much the same as those of most other German families.
VOX
Lasse Scharpen
Family Drama – TV Series
The lives of Leo, Jonas, Emma, Alex, Hugo and Toni do not seem to be different than those of other teenagers. Leo is cheerful, loves playing soccer with his friends and likes to spend time with his family. In contrast, Jonas would be glad, if his brother stopped making his life hell. Meanwhile Emma is trying her best to please her parents and Alex has trouble with his female math teacher. Toni always speaks bluntly, says what he thinks and seeks guidance from his grandpa. And Hugo gathers up all his courage for a jump from the ten- meter diving board.
Suddenly, Leo is torn out of his everyday life and must go to hospital. Everything changes abruptly. From now on medical examinations and diagnoses dominate his life. In addition, the patient he shares the room with makes his life even harder. However, he has already discovered Emma, but he is too shy to talk to her.
Neither Leo, nor Jonas, Alex and Toni, the later club members of the “Red Bracelets”, could have guessed at that point in time that their paths would cross in the Albertus Hospital and that they would form the club, that would change their lives forever.
Universum Film
VOX Television
Universum Film
Gerda Müller, Jan Kromschröder
Dramedy Feature
February 14th 2019 (Germany)
One is cool, his partner is cooler. One is stubborn, his partner is even more pigheaded. One likes to get his teeth into something, his partner likes to bite harder: Police Commissioner Elias Decker and bullmastiff Rocky are more similar than you might think at first glance.
Initially, the two alpha males were opponents. Rocky was supposed to be euthanized after he attacked Elias Decker during an operation. But Elias quickly realized that the beast that has just bitten him into his most sensitive zone can get him on the right track in tricky murder cases.
From then on, they work and live in a community of convenience. And so, the tense relationship between man and dog begins with a bite-proof magic moment. Together with Elias ’colleague Caro, the two daredevils proof to have a good nose for solving murder cases.
Sat.1
Gerda Müller, Lasse Scharpen
Crime – TV Series
"Zarah - Wild Times" tells the story of an ambitious journalist and her part in the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s, as she battles the entrenched patriarchy of a popular weekly magazine. It is a time when uncharted waters are being tested in fashion, pop culture, sex and politics. Germany is hip and with it, but the positions of power in politics, business and the media are still almost exclusively held by men. Zarah Wolf has recently joined the editorial team of a magazine and is determined to fight outdated role models and everyday macho attitudes and behaviour. She employs devious and ruthless methods as she seeks to manoeuvre herself into the editor- in-chief’s chair. Zarah risks a great deal and makes powerful enemies. As she turns the great wheel of societal change, her own life and emotions spin into turmoil.
ZDF
Jan Kromschröder, Eva Holtmann
Family TV Series
12-year-old Wendy doesn't care too much for her parents' decision to spend all of summer break at her grandmother's run-down horse ranch. Ever since grandpa died, grandma is singlehandedly running the ranch which has its direct competitor in the large, modern stable owned by Ulrike. After Wendy has had a severe riding accident, she would refuse to get back into the saddle – even though she used to be quite enthusiastic for and successful at competitive horseback riding. Yet as soon as she arrives, she meets the invalid horse Dixie, which just escaped from the butcher. Dixie seems to be quite fond of Wendy and follows her wherever she goes. The two loners are building a friendship, which has the potential to forever change not only Wendy's life but also could save grandma's ranch from being sold. But for how long will Wendy be able to hide Dixie from the adults?
Following the box-office success of the first film about teenager Wendy Thorsteeg's life with horses the cast has been reunited under the direction of Hanno Olderdissen for a sequel with new adventures in Wendy 2 – Friendship Forever.
Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion
Beta Film
Sony Pictures Releasing
Gerda Müller, Jan Kromschröder
Jan Kromschröder, Eva Holtmann
Dramedy Feature Film
January 26, 2017 (Germany)
February 22, 2018 (Germany)
Six teenagers cannot live a normal life like their friends: instead of playing football, meeting up with friends, going to school or spending time with their families, they are stuck in the hospital for an unknown time.
Although they suffer from different diseases, the members of the “Red Bracelets” share a common wish: to spend their youth as normally as possible.
Leo, Jonas, Emma, Alex, Toni and Hugo learn about the value of friendship in this dire and extraordinary situation. The change from joy to sorrow on a daily basis creates a unique bond between them. While experiencing life and death, their first great love and going on nightly expeditions through the hospital, they form the “Red Bracelets” and patients with different fates and personalities eventually become best friends.
VOX
Gerda Müller, Jan Kromschröder
Drama TV Series
Grapevines on gently rolling hills dominate a picturesque landscape – an idyll devoted to wine. But beware: winding its way through the valley is a saga of appalling secrets and lies, of forbidden desires and murderous lust...
Out in the vineyards, an injured stranger regains consciousness; next to him, the body of a young woman, apparently beaten to death. Having lost his memory, the stranger calls himself John Fox. Though a search party is sent to the vineyards, no trace of the girl can be found. With the annual wine festival beginning the next day, the villagers quickly forget the corpse without a body...
But as the pretty young wine queen appears before her subjects, John experiences an unsettling déjà-vu: The wine queen looks exactly like the young woman whom he had found dead the previous day. Then she, too, disappears after begging John to help her...
Baffled by these mysterious incidents, John senses that he is a part – perhaps a very important one – of a tragedy that draws practically all the townspeople into it. As he tries to regain his identity and tear apart the web of lies and secrets that has settled on the town, John realizes that nothing here is what it seems, and an ally can become your enemy in an instant.
TNT Serie (2015) / VOX (2016)
Bantry Bay in cooperation with TwentyFour 9 Films
Gerda Müller, Jan Kromschröder, Philipp Steffens (ZwentyFour 9)
Mystery Drama, TV Series
He’s sexy, humorous, unconventional – and a pastor. Andreas has just taken over a Protestant parish in a smallish city. The widower and his four sons – from a 6-year-old to a young adult – all have the potential to break the hearts of the local women, each in their own way. Andreas gets off to a bad start by questioning the parish council’s work and unleashing a houseful of males upon the new parish secretary Katharina. Yet even if Andreas often infuriates her, she doesn’t seem to be immune to his charm... |
ZDF
Gerda Müller, Jan Kromschröder
Family TV Series
Bantry Bay is an independent production company that brings together experienced TV makers, backed by German producer-distributor Beta Film. Our genre focus is on drama, while our sister company, Seapoint, focuses on non-fiction
programming for primetime and daytime. Both companies develop ideas in-house and bring international ideas and formats to Germany through a network of creative partnerships and format acquisitions.
Founded by Jan Kromschröder and Stefan Oelze in 2014, Bantry Bay works for all TV broadcasters and all media platforms in the marketplace. In 2018 Gerda Müller and Jan Kromschröder took over the joint management. Our headquarters are in Cologne city centre.
The explanation is quite simple. And then not. Originally, Bantry and the corresponding Bay lie in the southwest of Ireland in Cork County. However, our story has little to do with Ireland – but just for the fact that Anglo-Saxon emigrants took the bay’s name with them to South Africa and gave it to one of the seaside suburbs in beautiful Cape Town - named Bantry Bay.
Down there at the southern tip of Africa, many television films and series are filmed. So, while filming on location in Cape Town and during a stroll along the beautiful coastal line, the inspiration was found to use two stunning Cape Town locations, "Bantry Bay" and "Sea Point" as namesakes for our two new companies.
A beautiful and inspiring place, a good idea: These "working titles" actually became our brand names since we started up in 2014. Names that stand for a strong creative team, working eye-to-eye with our partners.
For parking, we recommend visitors to park in the Car Park in Maastrichter Strasse 10, 50672 Cologne.
If you’re taking public transport, you can reach us via KVB lines 1, 7, 12 and 15. The nearest stop to our offices is Rudolfplatz, which is just 150m walk away.
If you’re travelling from Cologne Main Station, take the KVB line 16 or 18 to Neumarkt and change to line 1 or 7 (overground lines).
If you’re flying in from Cologne-Bonn Airport, take the S13 (via Cologne Main Station) and change at Hansaring to the KVB line 12 or 15.
Bantry Bay Productions GmbH
Hohenzollernring 21-23
50672 Cologne | Germany
