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 Association
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Selection of Productions:
“70 Years of the ESC – More than Music“
Documentary 90 Min.
ARD
Director: Christopher Kaufmann
Production: DRIVE beta
2026
From a modest TV evening to a pop culture phenomenon: since its debut in 1956, the ‘Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson’ has evolved from a low-key TV gala into a massive musical event that now captivates around 160 million viewers worldwide. To mark its 70th anniversary, this ARD documentary explores this success story and examines why the ESC is far more than just a music competition: the Eurovision Song Contest reflects social and cultural changes and serves as a unique platform for diversity in Europe. With its formative influence on pop culture, fashion and the media, as well as its special significance for the LGBTQIA+ community, the Eurovision Song Contest stands, like almost no other event, for lived diversity and international solidarity. Spectacular performances, unforgettable songs, international careers and political controversies – a vibrant journey through seven decades of eventful European music and cultural history.
Premieres on 11 May 2026 at 8.15 pm on ARD and available from 8 May in the ARD media library
“Holt – The Wind Power Swindler”
Documentary 90 Min.
ARD
Director: Jan Peter, Sandra Naumann
Production: Caligari Entertainment
2026
Entrepreneur Hendrik Richard Holt claims to want to revolutionise wind power, yet in doing so builds an empire of lies. The documentary shows how a charismatic con artist, together with other family members, swindles millions through fake wind power projects – all the while moving in the highest political and social circles. He uses forged documents and empty promises to swindle investors out of millions and finance a life of dazzling luxury. With his biggest planned coup, he is aiming for a haul of more than a billion euros. For a long time, no one wants to believe the obvious fraud is real, until an ambitious public prosecutor steps in. What follows is a hair-raising game of cat and mouse that comes to a spectacular end in a luxury suite at the Hotel Adlon in 2020.
Watch online in the ARD media library
“Ku’damm 77 – The Documentary”
Archive Producer
Documentary 30 Min.
ZDF
Director: Heike Nelsen
Production: Caligari Entertainment
2026
The accompanying documentary to the new season of “Ku’damm” places the events of the series in their historical context and paints a picture of 1977 as a time of upheaval. While disco, pop culture, and new freedoms shape the attitude towards life in the West, fear of terrorism and political tensions dominate everyday life. At the same time, the influence of the Stasi, which controls people through surveillance and blackmail, is growing in the GDR.
At the same time, young people are questioning old role models. Women are pushing into previously male-dominated professions, and the post-war generation is demanding an open confrontation with the Nazi past. Music, dance, and the vibrant nightlife become expressions of a new sense of freedom.
Watch online in the ZDF media library
“The Big Terra X-Review of the Year 2025″
Documentary 45 Min.
ZDF
Director: Juri Köster
Production: Caligari Entertainment
2025
Europe at a crossroads? An exciting look back at the year 2025. “Terra X” explores Europe’s risks and opportunities in a world of upheaval. The challenges are manifold and global. Wars, climate change, energy hunger—Europe must become more independent politically, economically, and in research. There are rays of hope. Which events and developments will secure our future? Harald Lesch, Mirko Drotschmann, and Jasmina Neudecker embark on a multifaceted journey through Europe and the year 2025.
Watch online in the ZDF media library
„Köln 75“
Motion Picture
Director: Ido Fluk
Production: One Two Films / Extreme Emotions / Lemming Film Belgium
2025
“Köln 75” tells the true story behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s “Köln Concert” from 1975. The event almost failed to happen – before a formidable German teenager, the 18-year-old Vera Brandes, pulls out all the stops and arranges the conditions for the creation of a masterpiece.
“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
