Potsdam, 19 March 2024. Joachim Kosack, Managing Director of UFA Serial Drama, will be leaving UFA on 31 July 2024. In future, the former Co-Managing Director Markus Brunnemann will head the UFA Serial Drama unit alongside his function as Co-Managing Director of UFA Fiction. Joachim Kosack worked for the UFA Group for 28 years with a six-year interruption.

UFA Serial Drama produces long-running daily series such as GUTE ZEITEN, SCHLECHTE ZEITEN, ALLES WAS ZÄHLT or UNTER UNS. It is also expanding the kids segment with programmes such as SPOTLIGHT and currently SKATEPARK (AT), a spin-off of GZSZ. The UFA unit is also active in the light fiction sector with formats such as LENSSEN ÜBERNIMMT and other developments. The producer of GZSZ at the UFA location in Potsdam-Babelsberg is Dominique Moro. The productions of ALLES WAS ZÄHLT and UNTER UNS at the UFA location in Cologne-Ossendorf are managed by producer Guido Reinhardt. Helga Löbel is the producer of SPOTLIGHT and the GZSZ spin-off SKATEPARK (AT), Nadia Wölfel is responsible for the production of LENSSEN ÜBERNIMMT.

Sascha Schwingel, CEO of UFAsays of the changes: "I would like to thank Joachim Kosack for his tireless efforts in various positions and areas of UFA. In almost 30 years, Joachim has made a significant contribution to the success of the company, both creatively and entrepreneurially, and he has always been particularly supportive of young talent. I wish him all the best for his professional and personal future. At the same time, I am delighted that Markus Brunnemann and his team will be working on further expanding our important programme brands digitally in the future. We will continue to curiously combine the creativity of our teams with the possibilities of new technologies in order to make our favourite programmes accessible to fans anywhere and at any time."

Joachim Kosack, Managing Director UFA Serial Dramasays: "It was creative, strategic and extremely varied work that I was able to do at UFA over the years. It moves me to have to leave so many great people with whom I have been deeply connected for years in collegiality and respectful appreciation. I would like to thank them for trusting me so much and for allowing us to grow together in exciting but also challenging tasks. A new chapter is now opening in my professional life - and I'm excited to see what it will be. I sincerely wish UFA and all employees all the best."

After his time as a theatre director and cabaret artist, Joachim Kosack worked as head writer, director and producer for UFA Serial Drama (then Grundy UFA) from 1996 and as a producer for teamWorx from 2001. After holding positions at Producers at Work as a producer and at ProSiebenSat.1 as editorial director and as managing director of Sat.1, he returned to UFA in 2012 and became managing director of UFA Fernsehproduktion (now part of UFA Fiction). From 2013 to 2018, Joachim Kosack joined the management of UFA Fiction and in 2016 also took over the management of UFA Serial Drama, which he has headed together with Markus Brunnemann since 2017. In 2018, Joachim Kosack also joined the management board of UFA GmbH, from which he left in February 2024. During this time, he was responsible for corporate and HR strategy, anti-discrimination processes, digitalisation, diversity in front of and behind the camera as well as promoting young talent and training, among other things. Joachim Kosack has been teaching at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2001 and has been Professor of Series Producing / Serial Dramaturgy there since 2005.

 

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UFA is one of the leading production companies for series and films, shows and documentaries in the German-speaking world. New and long-running programmes from UFA reach an average of over 30 million people every week and are currently available on almost all TV channels and streaming services. The creative house bundles the range of its genres in the units UFA Fiction and UFA Serial Drama, UFA Show & Factual and UFA Documentary under one roof. UFA is part of the international production company Fremantle, the global production arm of RTL Group. UFA was founded in 1917 and is now present at five locations in Germany. Its headquarters are in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

 

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