Göttingen Studios

[1] The studios were established in 1948 on a site that had previously been used as an aeroplane hangar on the outskirts of Göttingen.

[2] The studios were founded by the independent producers Hans Abich and Rolf Thiele.

The city benefited by being comparatively lightly hit by Allied bombing during the Second World War.

It was part of shift of film production out of Berlin, previously the dominant centre of German production, following the war and subsequent Cold War Partition of Germany.

[2] In 1961 when film production ceased at the site, it passed to the postal service Deutsche Bundespost.