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

Svenja Wolter

Production Manager

Valentina Adames

Managing Archiv Producer

Leo Adass

DOP

Karin Schubert

Executive Producer Show (Office Hamburg)

Sylvia Breitstadt-Nendel

Production Manager Talk (Office Berlin)

Anne Rück

Producer

Salim Kabbara

Junior Producer

Alexandra Hamann

CGI Designer

Jakob Uebel

Writer

Ann-Kathrin Maubach

Editorial Assistant

Nerino Rück

Kirsten Leuchter

Back Office

Silke Peinsipp

Executive Producer Nano Talk

Sabine Eisner

Production Manager

Christopher Heuer

Production Assistant

Leonard Claus

Writer, Director

Boris Wilbers

Jens Dülker

1st Unit Manager

Cornelius Mücke

1st Unit Manager

Eva Schötteldreier

Writer, Producer, Director

Judith Schippers

Production Manager Talk

Matthias Steinbauer

Production Manager Show

Louis Stein

Assistent Editor

Sandra Klösges

Writer, Producer, Director

Dennis Koppetsch

Producer, Writer

Doris Offermann

Production Manager

Alla Shchyhlovska

Assistant Editor

Agnès Padrol Sureda

Editor

Sabine Trieloff

Production Manager

Anne Sanchez Mostacero

Room Attendant

Julian Balducci

CGI Designer

Martin Becker

Executive Producer

Kevyn Goncalves

Archive Producer

Nils Busch

Student Trainee IT

Nico Holter

Producer Sport

Kasimir Marks

Archive Producer

Ulla Sebus

Accountant

Daniel Sonnenschein

Sound-Designer

Igor Wilbers

Editing Supervisor

Rike Taubert-Petry

Accountant Assistant

Christoph Sagert

Mastering & Grading

Sebastian Martinez

CGI Designer

Marius Kimmel

Producer

Valerie Strauẞ

Trainee

Lisann Schmeing

Editor

Vasco V. Ochoa

Writer, Director

Dr. Daniel Sich

Executive Producer

Cornelia Stier

Writer, Producer

Stefan Schneider

Managing Director

Esma Figge

Unit Manager

Marie Lopez

People & Culture

Marie Wilbers

Editor

Julian Hess

Unit Manager

Ingrid Wagner

Commercial Manager

Matthias Gerstl

Archive Producer

Darya Ahmed

Trainee Archive Producer

Artur Widlak-Kortenbruck

Production Assistent Talk

Susanne Seibert

Executive Assistant

Hannah Krüger

Production Assistant

Lutz Pinkert

Archive Producer

Jan Beckhaus

Sound Engineer

Johannes Langfermann

Student Trainee

Markus Neumann

Mastering & Grading

Malte Vogel

Apprentice

Sabine Bier

Writer, Producer, Director

Bianca Zarandi

Producer

Matthias Klamfuẞ

Archive Producer

Kathrin Dupps

Writer, Producer

Luis Tamberg

Trainee

Tom Gotthardt

Casting-Editor

Alexander Hesse

Managing Director

Simone Betz

Production Manager