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

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Editorial Assistant

Boris Wilbers

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Tom Gotthardt

Editorial Assistant

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Louis Stein

Assistent Editor

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Artur Widlak-Kortenbruck

Production Assistent Talk

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Darya Ahmed

Trainee Archive Producer

Luis Tamberg

Trainee

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Leo Adass

DOP

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Malte Vogel

Apprentice

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound-Designer

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Cornelia Stier

Writer, Producer

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Valentina Adames

Managing Archiv Producer

Rico Pappi

Assistant Editor

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer