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

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Boris Wilbers

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Tom Gotthardt

Student Trainee

Rico Pappi

Apprentice

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Leo Adass

DOP

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Student Trainee

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Fabian Schüler

Student Trainee

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Hannah Knierim

Production Assistant Talk

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound Designer

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Berlin Office)

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Cornelia Stier

Writer

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Valentina Adames

Sustainability Manager

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Julian Hess

Production Assistant

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager