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

Malte Vogel

Apprentice

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Kathrin Dupps

Writer, Producer

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Darya Ahmed

Trainee Archive Producer

Cornelia Stier

Writer, Producer

Esma Figge

Unit Manager

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Valentina Adames

Managing Archiv Producer

Doris Offermann

Production Manager

Nerino Rück

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Anne Rück

Producer

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Nils Busch

Student Trainee IT

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Marius Kimmel

Producer

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Jakob Uebel

Writer

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Luis Tamberg

Trainee

Louis Stein

Assistent Editor

Leo Adass

DOP

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Boris Wilbers

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Bianca Zarandi

Producer

Silke Peinsipp

Executive Producer Nano Talk

Tom Gotthardt

Casting-Editor

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Editorial Assistant

Salim Kabbara

Junior Producer

Valerie Strauẞ

Trainee

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Artur Widlak-Kortenbruck

Production Assistent Talk

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound-Designer

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Cornelius Mücke

1st Unit Manager

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Nico Holter

Producer Sport

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer, Director

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Ingrid Wagner

Commercial Manager

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer