Joerg Winger
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.
Early life and education[edit]
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[edit]
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)[edit]
- 2007-2008: Ein Fall für Nadja
- 2008: The Bill
- 2011: World Express-Atemlos durch Mexiko
- 2013: SOKO: Der Prozess
- 2015: Deutschland 83
- 2002–2018: Leipzig Homicide
- 2018: Hackerville
- 2018: Deutschland 86
- 2020: Deutschland 89
References[edit]
- ^ "'Deutschland 83' Creator Joerg Winger Sets up Fremantle-Backed Big Window Banner (EXCLUSIVE)". 27 July 2020.
- ^ "German Cold War Drama Comes To American TV". NPR.org. 14 June 2015.
- ^ a b Peter Zander. "Deutschland 83: „Vielleicht braucht es den fremden Blick“".
- ^ "Deutschland 83 - 3 Questions with Joerg Winger, Executive Producer and Creator of 'DEUTSCHLAND 83' – SundanceTV". www.sundance.tv.
- ^ Jörg Winger. re:publica.de.
- ^ Cynthia Littleton. "'Deutschland 83' Breaks Cultural Barriers With Cold War Chiller | Variety". Variety.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Deutschland 83 episode two review: 'A heady cocktail of the lethal and the ludicrous'". Radio Times, Ben Dowell, 10 January 2016
- ^ Deutschland 83, retrieved 2017-06-02
- ^ "Hackerville (UFA Fiction/Mobra films für HBO Europe/TNT Serie)".
- ^ Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH. "Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH: Infotext Serien Producing" Archived 2013-12-15 at the Wayback Machine.
External links[edit]
- Jörg Winger at IMDb
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