Joerg Winger

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Joerg Winger (born 1969 in Cologne) is an Executive Producer and Managing Director at Big Window Productions [1] and a co-creator of the television drama Deutschland 83 .

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Early life and education

Winger was born in Cologne. He studied Russian and was trained to listen to intercepted Russian radio broadcasts during his military service in West Germany. [2] Winger worked as a journalist and studied economics at the University of Cologne. In 1990 he met his wife Anna Winger in Chile. [3]

Career

In the early 2000s Winger moved from Cologne to Leipzig to be the showrunner of Leipzig Homicide [4] Winger has since produced more than 300 episodes of multi-award-nominated [5] prime-time series Leipzig Homicide on ZDF, including 14 feature-length episodes set in locations such as Moscow, Istanbul and Santo Domingo and a crossover episode with UK series The Bill on ITV.

In 2012, Winger created a YouTube channel "Trigger", where he co-created the animated series Serial Killers with Marie Meimberg. Serial Killers was sold to German TV network RTL Crime.

With his wife, Anna Winger, is co-creator and executive producer of Deutschland 83 , [6] broadcast on Sundance TV (USA) in June 2015 and on RTL (Germany) in November and December 2015. The 8-episode series, is about a young East German spy on an undercover mission to West Germany in 1983 and was inspired by Winger's military service experiences. [7] [8] [3] Deutschland 83 had its world premiere when the first two episodes were shown at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and has gone on to win a number of awards including: The Grimmepreis, Goldene Kamera, Peabody Award, and an International Emmy. [9]

Winger is co-creator and executive producer of Hackerville , a six-part German-Romanian cybercrime drama for HBO Europe and TNT which was awarded the Grimmepreis in 2019. [10]

Winger regularly gives lectures on the development and production of television series at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. [11]

Filmography (Producer)

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References

  1. ↑ "'Deutschland 83' Creator Joerg Winger Sets up Fremantle-Backed Big Window Banner (EXCLUSIVE)". 27 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "German Cold War Drama Comes To American TV". NPR.org. 14 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 Peter Zander. "Deutschland 83: „Vielleicht braucht es den fremden Blick“".
  4. ↑ "Deutschland 83 - 3 Questions with Joerg Winger, Executive Producer and Creator of 'DEUTSCHLAND 83' – SundanceTV". www.sundance.tv.
  5. ↑ Jörg Winger. re:publica.de.
  6. ↑ Cynthia Littleton. "'Deutschland 83' Breaks Cultural Barriers With Cold War Chiller | Variety". Variety.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ↑ "Deutschland 83 episode two review: 'A heady cocktail of the lethal and the ludicrous'". Radio Times, Ben Dowell, 10 January 2016
  9. ↑ Deutschland 83 , retrieved 2017-06-02
  10. ↑ "Hackerville (UFA Fiction/Mobra films für HBO Europe/TNT Serie)".
  11. ↑ Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH. "Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH: Infotext Serien Producing" Archived 2013-12-15 at the Wayback Machine .
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