Berlin has had a long, often complex history as a location site and centre for production dating to the end of the 19th century. By the 2010s however, the German city had once more become a central location and production site for international and national television, in part because of changing media policy and shifts in the global media industry, as well as related to the mediated imagination of the city. The article charts those changes in local production cultures related to technology, politics and economics but also to the aesthetic and narrative representation of the city which affected audiences and producers. The central argument is that local production cultures are not homogeneous, but ambivalent and sometimes contradictory.

柏林作为生产基地和生产中心已有很长的，常常是复杂的历史，可追溯到19世纪末。然而，到2010年代，德国城市已再次成为国际和国家电视台的主要集散地和制作地，部分原因是媒体政策的变化和全球媒体行业的变化，以及与该城市的媒体想象力有关。文章描绘了与技术，政治和经济有关的当地生产文化的变化，也与影响观众和生产者的城市的审美和叙事表现相关。中心论点是本地生产文化不是同质的，而是矛盾的，有时是矛盾的。