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

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Boris Wilbers

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Valentina Adames

Sustainability Manager

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Fabian Schüler

Student Trainee

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Cornelia Stier

Writer

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound Designer

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Berlin Office)

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Leo Adass

DOP

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Julian Hess

Production Assistant

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Student Trainee

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Tom Gotthardt

Student Trainee

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Hannah Knierim

Production Assistant Talk

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Rico Pappi

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