Joerg Winger (born 1969 in Cologne) is an

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and Managing Director at Big Window Productions and a co-creator of the television drama '' Deutschland 83''.

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.Peter Zander
"Deutschland 83: „Vielleicht braucht es den fremden Blick“"

Career

In the early 2000s Winger moved from Cologne to Leipzig to be the showrunner of Leipzig Homicide Winger has since produced more than 300 episodes of multi-award-nominated 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

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. 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 and was inspired by Winger's military service experiences. '' Deutschland 83'' had its world premiere when the first two episodes were shown at the 2015

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and has gone on to win a number of awards including: The Grimmepreis, Goldene Kamera,

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, and an International Emmy. Winger is co-creator and executive producer of ''

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'', a six-part German-Romanian cybercrime drama for

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and TNT which was awarded the Grimmepreis in 2019. Winger regularly gives lectures on the development and production of television series at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg.Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
"Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH: Infotext Serien Producing"
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Filmography (Producer)

* 2007-2008: ''Ein Fall für Nadja'' * 2008: '' The Bill'' * 2011: '' World Express-Atemlos durch Mexiko'' * 2013: '' SOKO: Der Prozess'' * 2015: '' Deutschland 83'' * 2002–2018: '' Leipzig Homicide'' * 2018: ''

'' * 2018: '' Deutschland 86'' * 2020: ''

Deutschland 89 ''Deutschland 89'' is a German television series, starring Jonas Nay as Martin Rauch, an agent of East Germany following the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It is a sequel to the 2015 series ''Deutschland 83'', and 2018 series ''Deutschland 86 ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winger, Joerg Television people from Cologne Living people 1969 births