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

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Malte Vogel

Apprentice

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Editorial Assistant

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Darya Ahmed

Trainee Archive Producer

Louis Stein

Assistent Editor

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Boris Wilbers

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Luis Tamberg

Trainee

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Cornelia Stier

Writer, Producer

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Leo Adass

DOP

Artur Widlak-Kortenbruck

Production Assistent Talk

Tom Gotthardt

Editorial Assistant

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound-Designer

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Rico Pappi

Assistant Editor

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Valentina Adames

Managing Archiv Producer

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Ulla Sebus

Accountant