Jörg Winger

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Jörg Winger with his wife Anna Winger at the Grimme Award 2016

Jörg Winger (* 1969 in Cologne ) is a German television producer who, among other things, is responsible for the Germany series and managing director of the television production company Big Window Productions.

Live and act

Winger studied Russian for six months, after which he did his military service, where he was used in wiretapping of the Russian troops. He then studied economics at the University of Cologne and then worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a television producer.

From the beginning of the 2000s Winger worked as a producer for SOKO Leipzig and produced more than 300 episodes, including some full-length episodes with locations in Moscow, Istanbul and Santo Domingo, as well as a crossover with the British series The Bill . The first season of the internationally very successful series Deutschland 83 , which Winger produces together with his wife Anna , whom he met in Chile in 1990, premiered at the 2015 Berlinale . Deutschland 83 has received several awards, including the Grimme Prize , the Golden Camera and the Emmy . The second season was released in 2018. Winger is co-producer of the Romanian-German coproduction Hackerville , which was also published in 2018, and Hackerville was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2019 .

Winger gives lectures at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy on the development and production of series.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

German television award 2005

  • Nomination in the category Best Series for SOKO Leipzig

Golden Camera 2016

  • Winner in the Best Miniseries / Multi-Part Series for Germany 83

Grimme Prize 2019

  • Award winner in the fiction category for Hackerville

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Zander: Germany 83: "Perhaps it takes a strange view". Berliner Morgenpost, November 24, 2015, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Big Window Productions - new label from Jörg Winger under the umbrella of UFA Fiction. In: UFA. July 27, 2020, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rachel Martin: German Cold War Drama Comes To American TV. In: npr.com. NPR, June 14, 2015, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  4. ^ Michael Hanfeld: Nuclear archery. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 11, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Germany 83 - Awards. In: imdb.de. Internet Movie Database, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Hackerville (UFA Fiction / mobra films for HBO Europe / TNT series). Grimme Institute, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
  7. ^ The German Television Prize 2005 - The Nominations. In: presseportal.de. September 6, 2005, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ "Best German miniseries / multi-part series": "Deutschland 83". In: goldenekamera.de. February 6, 2016, accessed August 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Winger, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne