TV shows Deutschland 83 | ||
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Nominations Deutscher Fernsehpreis - Best Series Similar Anna Winger, Jonas Nay, Nico Hofmann, Frank Küpper, Philipp Haberlandt | ||
Joerg Winger (born 1969) is an Executive Producer at UFA Fiction who lives in Berlin, Germany. He is Managing Director at Ufa Fiction in Berlin 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. Winger worked as a journalist and studied economics at the University of Cologne. In 1990 he met his wife Anna Winger in Chile.
Career
in the early 2000s Winger moved from Cologne to Leipzig to be the showrunner of SOKO Leipzig Winger has since produced more than 300 episodes of multi-award-nominated prime-time series SOKO Leipzig 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, 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. had its world premiere when the first two episodes were shown at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. Winger's military service experiences helped inspire the series.
A new drama series based on Sebastian Fitzek’s thriller Das Joshua-Profil is in development in 2015.
Winger regularly gives lectures on the development and production of television series at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg.
Filmography (Producer)
2007-2008: Ein Fall für Nadja 2008: The Bill
2011: World Express-Atemlos durch Mexiko
2013: SOKO: Der Prozess
2015: Deutschland 83
2002–present: SOKO Leipzig