The shareholders ARD and ZDF
The structure of the Baden-Baden based company mirrors the de-centralised organisation of German federal public broadcasting. Its shareholders are the State broadcasting corporations ARD and ZDF. The German member's contribution to ARTE consists of programmes, often television premieres, which have been either purchased or produced by ARD and ZDF.
| 50 % ARD | ||
| The ARD, also known as Das Erste ("The First"), is a network of regional public-service broadcasters all over Germany, also responsible for providing to ARTE Deutschland half of the programmes they provide to ARTE GEIE. | Benjamin Fischer | |
| WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne | 22,00 % | Christiane Hinz |
| SWR Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart | 16,75 % | Dr Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri |
| NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg | 16,25 % | Claudia Cellarius |
| BR Bayrischer Rundfunk, Munich | 14,50 % | Sonja Schneider |
| MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Leipzig | 10,50 % | Ralf Fronz |
| RBB Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin | 8,00 % | Søren Schumann |
| HR Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt | 7,00 % | Dr Arne Kapitza |
| RB Radio Bremen, Bremen | 2,50 % | Frido Essen |
| SR Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken | 2,50 % | Natalie Weber |
| 50 % ZDF | ||
| The Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ("Second German Television”) is based in Mainz and provides half of the ARTE programmes provided by the German Member. | Wolfgang Bergmann, Jean-Christoph Caron, Michael Gries, Rebecca Gross, Katharina Krohmann, Dieter Schneider, Holger Stern |