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, Terra X Lesch and NANO talk. Or were 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, NANO talk 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

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Kathrin Dupps

Writer, Producer

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Tom Gotthardt

Casting-Editor

Nils Busch

Student Trainee IT

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound-Designer

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Doris Offermann

Production Manager

Darya Ahmed

Trainee Archive Producer

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Nerino Rück

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Louis Stein

Assistent Editor

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Esma Figge

Unit Manager

Cornelius Mücke

1st Unit Manager

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Leo Adass

DOP

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Nico Holter

Producer Sport

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Jakob Uebel

Writer

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Marius Kimmel

Producer

Bianca Zarandi

Producer

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Ingrid Wagner

Commercial Manager

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Artur Widlak-Kortenbruck

Production Assistent Talk

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Salim Kabbara

Junior Producer

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Boris Wilbers

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Cornelia Stier

Writer, Producer

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Anne Rück

Producer

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Valerie Strauẞ

Trainee

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Malte Vogel

Apprentice

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Luis Tamberg

Trainee

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Editorial Assistant

Silke Peinsipp

Executive Producer Nano Talk

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Valentina Adames

Managing Archiv Producer

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer, Director

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor