{"id":33118,"date":"2026-02-18T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/?p=33118"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:54:05","slug":"ulrike-leibfried-leaves-management-of-ufa-fiction-and-agrees-first-look-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/2026\/02\/18\/ulrike-leibfried-verlaesst-geschaeftsfuehrung-von-ufa-fiction-und-vereinbart-first-look-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulrike Leibfried leaves the management of UFA Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33118\" class=\"elementor elementor-33118\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eb8271d elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default creativo-sticky-disabled\" data-id=\"eb8271d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;enable_creativo_sticky&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bbcb817\" data-id=\"6bbcb817\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74b76af4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74b76af4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"306\">The producer <strong data-start=\"16\" data-end=\"57\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ulrike Leibfried<\/span><\/span><\/strong> leaves the management of <strong data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"133\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">UFA Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. This was announced by the parent company <strong data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"210\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">UFA GmbH<\/span><\/span><\/strong> on 16 February 2026. Leibfried will therefore step down from her position on 28 February 2026.<\/p><p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"609\">According to the company, however, the producer will remain associated with UFA. A so-called first-look deal is planned between UFA Fiction and its production company Area 46, under which UFA Fiction will receive priority access rights to future projects from Area 46.<\/p><p data-start=\"611\" data-end=\"916\">Leibfried has worked for UFA Fiction for several years in a senior position and has been responsible for numerous national and international productions during this time. In the press release, the company recognised her contribution to the strategic development and positioning in the German-speaking market.<\/p><p data-start=\"918\" data-end=\"1094\">No further details were provided regarding the reasons for the departure. In the press release, both sides emphasise their intention to continue their cooperation on a project-related basis.<\/p><p data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1253\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With this personnel change, UFA Fiction is reorganising its management structure. The company did not initially provide any information on a possible successor.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f80f46 e-flex e-con-boxed creativo-sticky-disabled e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f80f46\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;enable_creativo_sticky&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27580de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27580de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufa.de\/presse\/ulrike-leibfried-verlaesst-ufa-fiction-geschaeftsfuehrung-und-schliesst-first-look-deal-mit-ufa-fiction\">To the press release<\/a><\/h3><h5>\u00a0<\/h5><h5>Picture: \u00a9 Paxabay<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Produzentin Ulrike Leibfried verl\u00e4sst die Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrung der UFA Fiction. Das teilte die Muttergesellschaft UFA GmbH am 16. Februar 2026 mit. Leibfried wird ihre Funktion demnach zum 28. Februar 2026&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-minimal.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fuehrungswechsel","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33125,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118\/revisions\/33125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}