According to the city, the market in front of the Old Town Hall and the banks of the Rhine, especially the Brassertufer, are in demand as filming locations. Episodes of "Alarm für Cobra 11" have already been filmed on the Brassertufer. Filming also takes place frequently on the Rheinaue, most recently for "Mother Mary". For the film "Rheingold" by Fatih Akin about the life of the Bonn rapper Xatar, filming took place in 2021 at many locations in Bonn, for example on the Brassertufer, in front of and in the Bonn Opera House, at the Berliner Freiheit, in the Nibelungenstraße in Mehlem, at the Till-Eulenspiegel-School in Südstadt, in the gymnasium of the Pestalozzischule in the centre, at the Edeka in Friesdorf, at the Immenburgstraße, at the Europaring on Hardthöhe and at the Celsiusstraße on Brüser Berg. The Pestalozzi School was also chosen as the setting for the film "Help, I Shrunk My Friends" (2021).

The Ermekeilkaserne was the filming location for the cinema film "Männertag" (2015) with Tom Beck and Axel Stein and the ZDF crime series "Wilsberg"; in addition, ZDF chief detective Helen Dorn (Anna Loos) investigated here in the films "Gefahr im Verzug" and "Die falsche Zeugin“.

Sönke Wortmann's films "Der Vorname" (2018) and "Contra" (2019), among others, were shot at the Academic Art Museum at Hofgarten and the neighbouring university properties, as well as the ARD comedy "Sterben ist auch keine Lösung" (2022). The museum has been housed in Römerstraße since the beginning of 2022 due to renovation work.

The Museum Koenig has also been featured in several TV productions. For example, there were various shoots for the "Sendung mit der Maus", including a feature on the "Federal Giraffe" for the anniversary programme 50 Years of the Mouse in 2021. The presenter Jan Böhmermann shot the music video for his song "Recht kommt" for his programme "Magazin Royale" in 2018. According to information from the museum, Böhmermann filmed at the museum again "a few months ago" - but there are no details about this (yet).

The art museum on Helmut-Kohl-Allee had a high-profile star line-up in 2019: scenes from the musical film "Annette", which was released in 2021, are set at this location. Hollywood actors Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard were guests at the museum and on Bonn's Museum Mile for the occasion.

The Kameha Grand Hotel on the Bonner Bogen has already appeared several times in films. Chief Inspector Marie Brand alias Mariele Millowitsch investigated in the hotel in 2010. At the time, producer Iris Wolfinger emphasised the building's "own aesthetics", the floral designs and unusual rooms. The Cologne Tatort duo Klaus J. Behrendt alias Max Ballauf and Dietmar Bär as Freddy Schenk also investigated in the episodes "House of Cards" (2016) and "Freddy dances" (2015) in the Kameha Grand Hotel.

In 2022, an ARD two-parter was dedicated to the Rheinhotel Dreesen: in 2020, the filming of "Das weiße Haus am Rhein" took place on location. The four-star hotel is known for its history: Crown Prince Wilhelm, Reich Presidents Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg, Marlene Dietrich, Gustav Stresemann, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo have stayed here. Adolf Hitler was one of the regular guests, who is said to have stayed here a total of 70 times.

Several villas in Bad Godesberg have also been film locations on several occasions. In 2018, a film crew with Nora Tschirner and Alexander Fehling shot the book adaptation "Gut gegen Nordwind" in the villa district. Scenes for "Rheingold" were shot in a villa in Nibelungenstraße, as well as the ZDF two-parter "Mord in der Familie - Der Zauberwürfel" (2021). On 27 and 28 December, the thriller about a Cologne building lord dynasty will be shown. At the end of January, actors Katharina Lorenz and Matthias Koeberlin filmed in the representative building In the Villa Cappell in Bad Godesberg, filming took place in 2019 for the WDR television comedy "Volle Reife". In a villa in Mehlem in the Rüdigerstraße/Schlossallee area, the ZDF film "Mona & Marie" was filmed in 2021, with Maren Kroymann among others. In the Wachtberg district of Pech, there is an imposing villa in Huppenberger Straße, which has already appeared several times in films: In the Münster crime scene "Lakritz" (2019), in the cinema film "Halbe Brüder" with Sido, Fahri Yardim and Tedros Teclebrhan (2015) and the ZDF crime thriller "Haifischbecken" from the series "Friesland" (2021).

Another prominent filming location in Wachtberg is Adendorf Castle. Not only for the Hollywood film "Mother Mary" with Anne Hathaway, but also for the historical film "Henri 4" from 2010 with Joachim Król and Hannelore Hoger and for various Tatort, Wilsberg and Schimanski episodes.

Drachenburg Castle, where scenes for "Babylon Berlin" and the satirical comedy Schtonk! (1992) were shot, and Villa Heckenfels in Bad Honnef are impressive filming locations in the Siebengebirge. The Til Schweiger film "Manta Manta 2" was shot at Villa Heckenfels last year, as well as the 2012 reinterpretation of the Schiller classic "The Robbers" with Mario Adorf.

(Original text: Johanna Lübke / Translation: Mareike Graepel)