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

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Leo Adass

DOP

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Valentina Adames

Sustainability Manager

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Cornelia Stier

Writer

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Hannah Knierim

Production Assistant Talk

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Fabian Schüler

Student Trainee

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Rico Pappi

Assistant Editor

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Student Trainee

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound Designer

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Tom Gotthardt

Student Trainee

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Berlin Office)

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Boris Wilbers