GERMAN ARCHIVE PRODUCER

As a German archive producer, I provide archive research, rights clearance and budget control for documentaries and feature films. Past work includes productions for ARD, ZDF, ARTE and interntional cinema distribution.

I know how to illustrate historical moments and personal stories from all over the world with the right footage.

My special expertise:

• I’ve worked extensively with the archives of the German public broadcasts (television and radio)
• I’ve worked extensively with the German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv)
• I have many years of experience researching archive footage of the GDR (East Germany) during the Cold War
• This includes documents, photos, film and audio files of the secret police of East Germany – the Stasi.

I also offer workshops on archive producing for filmmakers, production companies and editorial teams.

I’m a member of GRAP, the German Researchers and Archive Producers e.V.

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Selection of previous productions:

“WILLY – Betrayal of the Chancellor”

Documentary series 4 x 30 min. / Documentary 90 min.
ARD
Director: Sandra Naumann, Jan Peter
Production: DOKFILM
2024

Watch online in the ARD media library

50 years ago, on May 6, 1974, Willy Brandt resigned. The West German chancellor fell over the Guillaume affair. His advisor Günter Guillaume had been exposed as a GDR spy. A feast for the press and his “party friends”. The four-part documentary series “WILLY – Betrayal of the Chancellor” by ARD reconstructs the most serious espionage affair in the Federal Republic of Germany – from a woman’s perspective.

Picture source: ARD

“Terra X History: Our Soccer Heroes”

Documentary
ZDF
Director: Tom Müller, Heike Nelsen
Production: Tom & Perla Medienmanufaktur
2024

Watch online in the ZDF media library

Every era has its heroes. This is especially true of soccer. “Terra X History” tells the story of six great soccer legends: from Fritz Walter to Bastian Schweinsteiger. Shortly before the 2024 European Football Championship, “Terra X History” looks back at German footballers who made history: Their greatest successes and their failures often stand for the life of an entire generation and are a reflection of their time.

Picture source: ZDF

“The Big Terra X Review of the Year”

Documentary 45 Min.
ZDF
Director: Juri Köster
Production: Caligari Entertainment
2023

Watch online in the ZDF media library

Experts Harald Lesch, Jasmina Neudecker and Mirko Drotschmann look back at the crises and controversies of 2023 as well as new findings from the world of science. They show images and news from the realm of science whose significance is not immediately obvious. “The Big Terra X Review of the Year” poses the question: Which events, developments and discoveries will continue to shape life in the future?

Picture source: ZDF

“Roy Lichtenstein – How Pop Art Revolutionized Art”

Documentary 52 Min.
ZDF + ARTE
Director: Christian Bettges
Production: Vincent Productions
2023

Roy Lichtenstein would have been 100 years old on October 27, 2023. He is one of the fathers of Pop Art and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. With the help of experts and companions of the late Lichtenstein, the documentary asks what was revolutionary about his art.

Picture source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd, LC-DIG-gtfy-02185

“Everyone writes by themselves”

Documentary 170 Min.
Cinema Distribution
Director: Dominik Graf
Production: Lupa Film
2023

In 2022, author Anatol Regnier published a book that looks at the lives and work of writers in Nazi Germany. In collaboration with Regnier, Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieb (author) and Felix von Boehm (producer) adapted the book of the same name and translated it into an almost three-hour, polyphonic essay film that meticulously examines the contradictory biographies of German writers Hans Fallada, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kästner, Ina Seidel and Will Vesper.

„Alice“

Two-part feature film 2 x 90 Min.
ARD
Director: Nicole Weegmann
Production: Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion
2022

Almost half a century ago, a young woman dared to speak out publicly with trenchant theses on gender roles and abortion laws. The reactions were fierce. Decades before the invention of the internet, Alice Schwarzer provoked the first major misogynist shitstorm in the history of West Germany. To this day, the mention of her name is followed by controversial and emotional reactions. The film “Alice” tells the story of how an unknown 21-year-old German develops into a personality who provokes the fiercest controversies and yet continues to go her own way undeterred.

Picture source: rbb / Alexander Fischerkoesen