If you've tried booking a recording studio in Germany recently, chances are you've already heard the name Prinz Studios. With over 20 locations across the DACH region, a franchise model, a digital booking platform and a publishing division with real long-term vision, what started as an idea in Recklinghausen back in 2022 has quietly become one of the most compelling operations in the German-speaking music business.
The Prinz Music Group serves as the parent company, housing three divisions that are tightly connected: Prinz Studios, Prinz Publishing and BPM, a label joint venture with Bamboo Artists. It all started with a three-person founding team and has since grown to around ten people at its core.
The studio network was born out of a genuine frustration. Booking a professional studio in Germany was often a mess: hard to access, inconsistent in quality and impossible to scale. That problem became the foundation for something much bigger. Today, each location runs as its own independent business while the headquarters takes care of the brand, marketing, strategic direction and the company's own digital platform, which lets anyone book and manage studios in just a few clicks. Simple on the surface, serious infrastructure underneath.
Then there's Prinz Publishing, which Jimi considers the most strategically important part of the group in the long run. The studios keep things moving financially in the short term, but publishing is where the real value gets built over time. The goal is to grow a catalog of tens of thousands of works and generate income from them well into the future. What makes Prinz Publishing stand out from traditional publishers isn't just speed or efficiency, it's the whole package. Signing with them means getting direct access to the studio network, reliable administration and a team that actually communicates. Add to that the regular songwriting camps, where artists, producers and different genres are brought together to create as much strong material as possible in a short window. The biggest of these camps have had over 200 people working at the same time.
For producers and songwriters, that kind of setup makes a real difference. A deal with Prinz Publishing isn't just a contract, it's an entry point into a functioning system with sessions, connections and infrastructure already in place. Jimi is honest about how they decide who gets signed. It comes down to the full picture: talent, output, track record and mindset. He's also upfront about the fact that the financial reality of publishing plays a role in the conversation. Royalties take time to come in, and both sides need to be realistic about that from the start.
The same intentionality goes into how the company builds partnerships. Collaborations with Bamboo Artists, Hyper Soda or Sound Science aren't random. Each one is chosen based on what both sides genuinely bring to the table and whether it makes sense to grow together over time. For artists in the Prinz ecosystem, that means being part of something that's working for them even when they're not in the room.
As for what's next, the studios are pointed toward further international growth while publishing stays focused on building a catalog worth holding. All of it done without outside funding and without chasing scale for its own sake. "Our advantage is the combination of franchise, publishing and label," says Jimi. "This structure creates synergies that are rare in this form." Hard to disagree.
