Thorben Bockelmann
Archive Producer with offices near Cologne and Hamburg, works for production companies at home and abroad.
- recherche@thorben-bockelmann.com
- +49 175 34 12 23 2
- Cologne / Hamburg
Nicholas Kirchner
Archive Producer since 2023, also active as a part-time script editor. Focus on fictional projects with archive sequences, especially for X films (e.g. ‘Das Licht’ ‘Babylon Berlin 5’)
- nichkirch7@gmail.com
- Berlin
Damian Dinges
Learned to love the genre as a student in the documentary department of phoenix. Then coordinator, archive producer and PL at TAG/TRAUM . Freelance researcher and archive producer since 2023. Projects with: ARTE, NDR, RBB, SR, WDR, ZDF
Jascha Hannover
Has worked on various TV- and cinema-documentaries since 2015. Broadcasters include ARTE, TVO, FoxSports, AVRO, ORF, Amazon. Also experienced in music licensing.
- mail@jaschahannover.com
- +49 1578 7054282
- Cologne / Berlin
Stephen Maier
Works mainly on documentary formats with historical archive material for German and international productions.
Michael H. Gerloff
Since 2009 self-employed in the field of archive research and rights clearance for radio, TV and cinema documentaries; focus on media, contemporary history and culture.
Florian Tropp
Since 2023 Archive Producer at Beetz Brothers Film Production, focus on current affairs, history and culture.
Tatjana Bonnet
Has been working in research and rights clearance since 2006, alongside her work as a producer and screenwriter: Constantin Film, Netflix, btf, Syrreal, Hager Moss, Olga Film, Wiedemann & Berg, UFA, Ratpack, Odeon Pictures
Gregor Murbach
Multilingual archive producer with extensive experience of internationally renowned productions for the BBC, Netflix, Arte and Sky among others.
- gregor@murbachresearch.com
- +49 151 75 00 20 30
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Bianca Döring
Since 2005 Archive Research and Rights Clearances for international documentaries, exhibition designs, feature films and advertising, but also for print.
Kasimir Marks
Member of Rights Clearance and Footage Management at Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion.
Nico Viets
Media documentary maker, working for various production companies in the field of research and licences since 2016.
Focus on politics and natural sciences.
Claudia Gründer
Has been working as a freelance archive producer for documentaries since 2006, with a focus on history, for public television and also for international projects. She has also worked as an author for documentary formats for ten years.
- claudiagruender@gmx.de
- +49 178 707 71 71
- Wittenberg/Leipzig
Chrysanthi Goula
Since 2018 working as a freelance archive producer for arte, ARD, ZDF, ZDFinfo, DW, WDR, SWR, Netflix etc., cinema productions, exhibitions and social media campaigns, as well as a filmmaker.
Julian Nindl
Has been working as a freelance archive researcher and archive producer for over three years. Productions for arte, ZDF, Netflix and others.
- nindl.research@gmail.com
- Berlin
Eva Diet
Independent archive producer from Berlin with work experience at arte, ZDF, ZDFinfo, ZDFzeit, WDR, ARD, 3sat, TF1, Netflix, etc.
- eva.diet@posteo.de
- Berlin
Monika Preischl
Active for over 17 years in the field of archival research and as an archive producer for documentary and drama productions worldwide. Winner of the FOCAL AWARD 2023.
- info@bildfinderin.com
- Berlin
Linn Sackarnd
Writer, director, archive producer. As an archive producer, she has 20 years of experience in more than 50 film productions in Germany and France.
- mail@sackarnd.berlin
- Berlin
Lutz Pinkert
Former head of Rights Clearance and Footage Management at Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion.
- Cologne
Sabine Kues
Has worked as a freelance archive researcher for Kloos & Co, Tondowski Films, DARE Pictures and Kundschafter Filmproduktion, among others, since 2022.
- research@sabinekues.de
- Berlin
Masha Chelova
Multilingual archive producer and researcher, she has worked in archives for the BBC, Arte, Channel 4 and NHK. Nominated for FOCAL Awards 2004.
- chelovam@gmail.com
- +49 176 8475 4078
- Berlin/London
Karin Fritzsche
Archive research on moving images since 1996, focus on Eastern Germany and Germany until 1945, for ARD, ZDF, zero one film, Gebrüder Beetz, AMIP and many others. Curator for film festivals until 2015.
- k.fritzsche@berlin.de
- Berlin
Michael Konstabel
Started as a journalist; worked in film as script, assistant director, in production and editing scripts. Research since 1996 for X-Filme, Senator Film, UFA Fiction, Wiedemann & Berg, Ziegler Film, among others.
Cat Curbishley
British-Argentinian archive producer and researcher since 2020, specialising in music and art documentaries for international production companies.
Thembi Linn Hahn
Since 2021 freelance archive producer on over 20 film and TV projects, including for ZDF, ARD, ARTE, NETFLIX and DISNEY+.
- thembi.hahn@posteo.de
- +49 159 06 39 93 13
- Berlin / Potsdam
Marco Siebler
Head of Rights Clearance & Footage Management at Story House Productions.
Janne Gärtner
Has worked for Netflix, France 3, ARD, Arte, RTL, Pro7, Motto Pictures (New York), Passion Pictures and Rogan Productions (London). Winner of the FOCAL AWARD 2023
- janne_gaertner@gmx.de
- Berlin
Sascha Engling
Since 1999, he has worked on over 30 television/cinema productions and image films for channels including RTL, ARD and ZDF. He is very familiar and has good relations with the RTL archive. His main topics are sports and contemporary history.
- sascha@engling.org
- +49 170 3314565
- Cologne / Helsinki
Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks
Since 2008 freelance archive producer and author for various film and TV productions.
Philipp Diettrich
Working as a writer and producer for documentaries since 2013. Since 2016 also working as an archive producer for his own projects and as a freelancer for international productions.
Mona El-Bira
Projects with zero one film, BASIS BERLIN, Kundschafter Filmproduktion, Charlotte Street Films.
Winner of the FOCAL AWARD 2023.
- research@monaelbira.de
- Berlin
Céline Deligny
Head of Rights Clearance and Footage Management at taglicht media.
Christin Köppen
Since 2017, archive producer and documentary film director. Archive research and rights clearance for feature films and documentaries for ARD, ZDF, ARTE, international cinema distribution.
- mail@christinkoeppen.de
- Berlin
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