Bjorn Koll

Director, Salzgeber & Co

Bjorn Koll began work, in 1989, with Manfred Salzgeber at Edition Salzgeber, a Berlin based theatrical distribution company, becoming CEO and main shareholder of the Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH after Salzgeber’s death in 1994. Today, Edition Salzgeber stands on the forefront of digital cinema, as an ambitious distributor and operator of its own home entertainment label. Edition Salzgeber is the only distributor to have been awarded three times with the Deutscher Verleiherpreis (1994, 1999 and 2003) – Germany’s most prestigious distributors prize.
www.delicatessen.org for German programming, and www.cinemaneteurope.com for international programming).

Today, together with CEO Dr. Thomas Geyer, Koll heads up DCS Digital Cinema Services GmbH, a leading European cinema encoding and wrapping company. He also serves as head of studies at VERTICALstategies, a training program for the marketing and promotion of European films, and teaches at the Hochschule f?ilm und Fernsehen in Postdam and Munich, and at international training programmes like Discovery Campus, EAVE amongst others.