Herbert G. Kloiber, who was formerly the owner of German TV and film giant Tele München Group (now known as Leonine), and Constantin Film have set up Vienna-based production company High End Productions, which will produce premium European fiction series for the international market. Jonas Bauer has been appointed as managing director.Bauer comes from Studiocanal, where he worked as head of acquisitions and co-productions from 2012 until 2020. He had been executive producer for Tandem Productions since 2005 and produced,...
Herbert
Kloiber
Kloiber, who began his career at German media company Kirch Group, acquired Tele München Group in 1977 and grew it into an independent media corporation that now includes production unit Clasart Film, distribution division Concorde Filmverleih, Concorde Home Entertainment, On Demand Deutschland and TM International, as well as broadcasters RTL II and TELE 5. Austrian broadcaster ATV was sold in 2017, and TMG has launched an SVOD channel, Filmtastic. Kloiber owns stakes in Load Studios, Odeon Film, Storied Media Group and On Demand Deutschland. He heads the production and media economics department at the University of Television
and Film in Munich and is vice president of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
music association. He stepped down from his post at TMG in 2019 upon the company’s sale to global investment firm KKR.