Campus Magazin Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 22/23

History
1980 – 1990
Prof. Albrecht Ade establishes an animation class at the
Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
1982
The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
(ITFS) is founded.
1991
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FABW) is founded
in Ludwigsburg with animation/CGI as an essential part
of the educational provision.
1994
The first German Film and Media Exchange (FMX) takes
place in Stuttgart.
2002
Prof. Thomas Haegele becomes the founding director
of the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital
Postproduction at FABW, with the study areas Animation,
Visual Effects, Content Creation and the newly
founded Technical Directing programme. Since then, the
institute has been responsible for training the Filmakademie’s
animation and effects students and for the digital
postproduction of student projects at FABW. The German
Film and Media Exchange is renamed FMX, which becomes
an international event organised by the institute.
The Research and Development department, led by Prof.
Volker Helzle, is founded at the institute.
2003
The short film ROCKS (DAS RAD, Heidi Wittlinger,
Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel) is nominated for an Academy
Award in the Best Animated Short category.
2008
The Interactive Media field of study, established by Inga
von Staden, is integrated into the institute, building a
bridge between the institute and the other departments
of the Filmakademie. The study specialisation Animation/Effects
Producing is founded. The first edition of
the EU-funded programme Animation Sans Frontières
takes place, a collaborative project between the Animationsinstitut,
the Animation Workshop in Viborg, GOBE-
LINS l’école de l’image in Paris and the Moholy-Nagy
University of Art and Design in Budapest.
2009
The Animationsinstitut becomes part of the newly
founded Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart
AMCRS, a network initiated by the MFG Baden-
Württemberg, with members from the animation,
games, VFX and other media sectors, as well as universities
and academies.
2015
Prof. Andreas Hykade becomes head of the Animationsinstitut.
The subject of Intellectual Property is integrated
into the institute’s curriculum.
2020
The financing of the strategy paper «Filmakademie
2030» allows the Animationsinstitut to establish the specialisation
Character Animation and to expand its international
activities.
2022
Since 1992, the Animationsinstitut’s productions have received
more than 1.000 international awards, making it
one of the most renowned institutes of its kind in the
world. In the summer of 2022, the Animationsinstitut
celebrates its 20th anniversary.
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