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

Boris Wilbers

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound Designer

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Ingrid Wagner

Controlling

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Berlin Office)

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Student Trainee

Cornelia Stier

Writer

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Silke Peinsipp

Writer, Producer, Director

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Linda Brzoska

Student Trainee

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Tom Gotthardt

Student Trainee

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Florian Oesterreich

Editorial Assistant

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Hannah Knierim

Production Assistant Talk

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Fabian Schüler

Student Trainee

Jonas Ramrath

Trainee Postproduction

Leo Adass

DOP

Kathrin Dupps

Writer

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Valentina Adames

Sustainability Manager

Rico Pappi

Apprentice

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Jakob Uebel

Trainee

Julian Hess

Production Assistant

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Simone Betz

Production Manager

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director