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Regional planning

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Symfony application mapping the approval workflow for environmentally relevant projects such as wind turbines, with a GIS component.

Web and CMS

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Content management that fits your organisation

We have worked with TYPO3 for more than twenty years, and we know the systems that grew up around it: WordPress, Contao, Joomla. The choice follows your editorial team, not our preference.

What we take on

Concept and build, including a bespoke site package
Back-end layouts that show editors only what they need
Extensions written with Extbase and Fluid, rather than bending stock plugins
Integration with LDAP or Active Directory, with ERP systems, with sensor data
Migration from legacy platforms, with redirects so nothing is lost

Operations included

A CMS is not a project that ends. Updates, security patches and monitoring continue after the site goes live.

KLIMPRAX urban greenery tool

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Interactive tool for selecting suitable plants for different purposes. TYPO3 plugin with an FAQ component.

Specialist applications

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Mapping procedures, not rebuilding forms

Administrative procedures have responsibilities, deadlines, returns and participants who decide in sequence. We map those processes rather than forcing them into an off-the-shelf product.

Examples from our work

Workflow for environmentally relevant approval procedures, with a GIS component
Drilling permits in the state of Hesse, with an Oracle back end
Consultation of public interest bodies, organised by team

Technology

Symfony as the foundation, because it is well maintained, has a large community and will still be maintainable in ten years. Data held in PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle as required.

!Echt Jetzt!

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Children’s and youth theatre within the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural programme. WordPress theme development and migration from the previous platform.

Geoinformation

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Maps that say something

Spatial questions need more than a map with pins on it. We connect subject data to geometries and make the result usable in the browser — for case workers as much as for the public.

Typical work

Overlaying subject data with administrative boundaries and protected areas
Decentralised capture by several bodies, with approval steps
Integration of official services and open map sources
Map output that remains usable without a mouse

Environmental data

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From the measuring station to publication

Monitoring networks deliver around the clock. The difficulty is not the chart; it is making sure the numbers are correct and arrive, even when a station fails or a line stalls.

What we build

Collection from heterogeneous sources, with buffering during outages
Validation and flagging of questionable readings
Publication as a portal, an interface or a warning message
Monitoring of the whole chain, so a failure is noticed before data is missing

Air, water, radioactivity, earthquakes, floods — we have pushed the subject boundaries a fair way in recent years.

pro familia federal association

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Support for the TYPO3 installation and for the web and mail servers, including spam and virus filtering. User and mailbox management via an extranet tool.

Contact

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We would like to hear from you

Whatever you are planning, ask us. You can reach us by phone Monday to Friday, and by email at any time.

Animate, Agentur für interaktive Medien GmbH Hertha-Genzmer-Str. 1 65197 Wiesbaden Germany

Phone +49 611 36028777 Email mail@animate.de

Why no contact form?

A contact form is a database, an attack surface and a consent notice. A phone number is a person. We chose the person.

Databases

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Data storage that holds up

An application is only as good as its data model. We design schemas that can be extended, and we clean up where structures that grew over years now slow things down.

Services

Modelling and normalisation, with later extensions in mind
Replication and load distribution for resilient applications
Migration between systems, with reconciliation rather than trust
Analysis of slow queries and targeted indexing
Backup and, which is often missing, tested restore

Environmental data portal

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Application for visualising environmental measurements: air, water, radioactivity, wolf sightings and more.

Hosting and email

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A small host, taking care

We are not a volume hosting provider and have no wish to become one. We run the systems we know — which is why, when something breaks, we know where to look.

Web

Servers in Germany, container operation with separate stacks per client, a web application firewall in front of every application, automated certificates.

Email

From a single mailbox to a resilient cluster with several thousand accounts. Redundant inbound servers, spam and virus filtering, DKIM and DMARC, webmail. We run this infrastructure nationwide for pro familia.

No Strings Attached

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A cultural programme by the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Foundation. Migration from the previous platform and a bespoke WordPress theme.

Systems operation

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Operations, even when we didn’t build it

We administer Linux systems, set up monitoring with Icinga2 and look after load balancers and network equipment — in our data centre or on your premises.

Monitoring

Icinga2 in a cluster, with bespoke checks for the things stock plugins do not cover. Alerts by email or text message.

HP-UX

A footnote, but an honest one: we still have a colleague with long experience of HP-UX, from version 9 through 11.31. If you are one of the organisations still running these systems in production, get in touch. Not many people can help any more.

Youth Participation Programme Hesse

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TYPO3 site on participation and democracy with blog and news integration, built on a bespoke site package.

Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology

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Support for the TYPO3 installation and the measurement data pipeline, plus application support and Linux administration across several servers.

Drilling permit tracking

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Symfony application mapping the approval workflow for drilling permits in the state of Hesse, with an Oracle back end.

Lufthansa Systems

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Administration of the internet proxy and DNS management.

Federal Association for Debt Counselling

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Advice portal for people in debt, with a counselling-centre finder, a self-assessment quiz and an interactive letter generator.

Earthquake catalogue

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Phalcon application that ingests seismic events automatically and makes them searchable.

uib GmbH

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Hosting of the mail infrastructure and the download platform for the opsi product, plus support for several TYPO3 instances.

Festo

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HP-UX systems administration and on-call support.

Bahnhof Hohenstein

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Contao hosting and mail management.

Centre for Health Promotion Rhineland-Palatinate

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Hosting and support for the Contao installation, plus systems support for the mail and web servers.

Sanofi

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Support for HP-UX and Linux systems in pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Messer Information Services

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Systems administration for HP-UX and Linux.

Schoko pro

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One of the top five agencies in the events sector. Monitoring and Linux troubleshooting by Animate.

Public interest bodies

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Application built on Phalcon, MySQL and Bootstrap that maps team-based approval procedures.

Hessian Youth Council

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Hosting of the TYPO3 installation and extension development for educational leave and special leave programmes.

Bathing waters in Hesse

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Decentralised measurement entry by local health authorities for the EU bathing water directive in Hesse.

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Regional Authority

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Monitoring of the GIS environment with Icinga2, including tenant access.

Technogroup

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Support for on-site engineers working with HP hardware and HP-UX: fault analysis, remote support and an on-call rota.

Hessian Hospital Association

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TYPO3 with Unify integration, an extensive members’ area and document management.

Staples

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Configuration of the Nortel load balancers.

TBS Rhineland-Palatinate

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Hosting of the TYPO3 presence and DNS.

Flood portal Hesse

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High-availability information system for distributing flood warnings, with decentralised entry by the regional councils.

Hymer

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HP-UX support and update, integration with Windows via LDAP.

BASF

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Support for the worldwide HP-UX and Linux infrastructure, including an on-call rota.

LiLa Living Lahn

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EU LIFE project “LiLa Living Lahn — one river, many demands”.

Car Menu

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Automotive benchmarking from a designer’s point of view. Combines Zope, TYPO3 and WordPress.

Hessian Earthquake Service

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Systems support and hosting for the seismic control centre, plus the network connecting measuring stations across the state.

Logicalis

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Linux work for various clients of the systems integrator.

State Agency for Civic Education

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Extensive TYPO3 installation with an integrated ordering system and newsletter.

Telekom

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Support for the access network of Deutsche Post, Checkpoint firewalls, HP-UX and an on-call rota.

Sexalog

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Website for sexalog.de built on TYPO3, with a blog based on tx_news.

Köhler Pharma

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New web presence built for Köhler Pharma.

fokuskultur-rlp.de

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Development and hosting of the fokuskultur-rlp.de website.

thalhaus.de

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Relaunch of the Thalhaus website.

Accessibility: what applies now

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Public bodies in Germany have been covered by BITV 2.0 for some time. Since June 2025 the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz has added obligations for many private providers as well.

We assess existing sites against WCAG 2.2 Level AA and tell you what can be fixed at reasonable cost and what cannot.

Web application firewall in front of every client project

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Every web application we look after now sits behind a web application firewall based on the OWASP Core Rule Set. Suspicious requests are logged and evaluated; sources that appear repeatedly are blocked in escalating stages.

The rules are tuned per application, so editors are not held up by false positives.

Mail infrastructure now runs in a cluster

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200

We have moved our mail infrastructure to distributed operation. Inbound servers, filtering and mailboxes now sit on several nodes that take over from one another when one fails.

Nothing changes for customers’ credentials. What changes is that a hardware failure no longer delays delivery.

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Accessibility statement

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Level of conformance

This site was built with the aim of meeting WCAG 2.2 Level AA. The final assessment is still outstanding.

Reporting a barrier

Did something stop you using this site? Write to mail@animate.de or call +49 611 36028777. We will get back to you.

Legal notice

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Company

Animate, Agentur für interaktive Medien GmbH

Address

Animate, Agentur für interaktive Medien GmbH Hertha-Genzmer-Str. 1 65197 Wiesbaden Germany

Phone +49 611 36028777 Email mail@animate.de

Managing directors

Philipp Giere Thomas Elsäßer

Commercial register

VAT identification number: DE217320435

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