About us

Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion realizes quality-conscious TV documentaries and series on large and small questions of history/contemporary history, science, nature and society. With innovative TV formats and unusual stylistic devices, we tell complicated things simply – and thus successfully generate insights even into complex topics. Our productions are informative, sophisticated and surprising.

The multifaceted nature of the documentary genre in general is reflected in the diversity of our documentary work, from pure documentary to reportage to docu-drama.

New scientific perspectives and exciting findings are the focus of our productions for the formats Terra X, Leschs Kosmos and scobel. Or are presented in an entertaining way in the hybrid-format science quiz of the Große Terra X-Show as well as the Terra X-Show Kids.

Throughout the year, we also stage classic studio productions with maybrit illner, scobel and the Literary Quartet.

Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in Cologne, with two branches in Berlin and Hamburg. Alexander Hesse and Stefan Schneider lead a creative team that has grown over many years, is experienced and also constantly renewing itself.

We are Gruppe 5

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Sarah Hamzei

Line Producer

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Sarah Struẞ

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Cornelia Stier

Writer

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound Designer

Solveig Hansen

Managing Archive Producer

Boris Wilbers

Lida Martel

Unit Manager (Office Hamburg)

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Darius Bernstein

Apprentice

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Hannah Knierim

Production Assistant Talk

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Unit Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Julian Hess

Production Assistant

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Marius Kimmel

Writer

Leo Adass

DOP

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Darie de Decker

Editor

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Kim Helberg

Junior Show Producer (Office Hamburg)

Rico Pappi

Apprentice

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Valentina Adames

Sustainability Manager

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Lando “Calrissian” Hansen