Samson, Tiffy, Finchen and production crew at Studio Hamburg
Ilse Biberti (Ilse on Sesamstrasse) in front of a Studio Hamburg facility
Studio Hamburg dubbing credits on Dog City
Studio Hamburg, an NDR subsidiary, is a German film and television production company, providing full service from studio shoots to dubbing and editing. In particular, it has been the production facility for Sesamstrasse since the beginning. As Studio Hamburg was established as a dubbing house, that was initially the primary assignment (casting, dubbing, adapting, and editing the American Sesame Street scenes, while original film and animated inserts came from various parts of Germany). 1978 saw the addition of a German street set and Muppets.
Since that time, additional segments have been produced there including some of the recurring live-action inserts, as well as the various German spin-offs such as Eine Möhre für Zwei, Pizza mit Biss, assorted specials and TV movies, guest appearances, and the various Ernie and Bert spinoffs such as Ernie & Bert Märchensongs. The non-Muppet segments of two Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten specials and Uncle Matt's appearance on Grosse Show für kleine Leute were taped there.
American segments or spinoffs Elmo - das Musical, Ernie und Bert im Land der Träume, and Das Furchester Hotel were all dubbed at Studio Hamburg, mostly using the same voices and casting pool as Sesamstrasse. In the 1990s, the German dub of Dog City was likewise dubbed there. News anchors or cast members of other shows produced at the studio, such as the Hamburg installments of Tatort, sometimes guest starred on Sesamstrasse.
The company began as Real-Film, which was founded in 1947 and produced German movies. In 1961, it was renamed Studio Hamburg and expanded heavily into television. They produced Edgar Wallace krimi films and the crime series Stahlnetz, and later Hallo Spencer (whose puppeteer pool overlapped with Sesamstrasse), Grossstadtrevier (with Lutz Mackensy and others), and Schwarzwaldklinik (with Alf Marholm). Studio Hamburg co-produced the 1968 US TV version of Heidi and later branched into producing and funding films like 2013's Night Train to Lisbon (with Jeremy Irons) and 2021's Ich bin dein Mensch (with Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens). Imported TV shows dubbed at Studio Hamburg include Columbo, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Batman: The Animated Series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Sopranos, Golden Girls, and Bob's Burgers.
External links[]
- Official site (in German)