Company Profile

Since 1996, Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH continuously produces documentaries and feature films. Our main focus lies with contemporary topics realised in long formats. We are interested in exceptional, intriguing and fascinating stories baring the potential to be told, in a highly qualified manner, to both a German and an international audience. We aim to find an adequate realisation for unique stories strengthened by a convincing authorial stance and a gripping narrative approach. Dealing with such various filmic forms as the docu-soap, docu-dramas and different hybrid formats during the last years has often led us into the fascinating borderlands between reality and fiction.

At the moment, our main focal point is on further developing individual filmic approaches and visual styles. Working together constantly with a range of authors and directors creates the core of this intention - the mutual knowledge of individual strengths and weaknesses gives the opportunity of shared success. At the same time, Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH increasingly produces on an international scale: In 2004, more than two thirds of our productions have been realised as an international co-production. In pursuing this further, we can produce films for which a national market would have been proven too small. Numerous awards, festival invitations as well as an abundance of international sales support this stance.

The Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH team consists of nine permanent employees. The CEO Olaf Jacobs, together with the producers Carolin Scheffler and Anne Stephan, accounts for the film productions. Peter Effenberg supervises the production process and all technical services.

Matthias Hoferichter left the company in 1999. Olaf Jacobs is CEO. In between 2003 and 2006, Hoferichter & Jacobs acted as executive producer of the European Film Academy's master classes. The company holds shares in the Cocopelli Musikverlag GmbH, in the art & pictures Medien GmbH and in the PentAlpha Verlag für Kunst und Medien gGmbH, Leipzig.