{"id":32980,"date":"2026-02-12T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/?p=32980"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:19:14","slug":"solmaz-azizi-becomes-managing-director-of-centropa-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/2026\/02\/12\/solmaz-azizi-wird-geschaeftsfuehrerin-von-zentropa-deutschland\/","title":{"rendered":"Solmaz Azizi becomes Managing Director of Zentropa Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The producer Solmaz Azizi<\/strong> takes over from the 1 September 2026<\/strong> the management of the German branch of Zentropa<\/strong>the Danish production house behind films such as Nymphomaniac<\/em> and The intoxication<\/em>. It follows Fabian Gasmia<\/strong>who has headed the Berlin branch since 2015 and will in future focus on his production company Seven Elephants<\/strong> will concentrate.<\/p>

Azizi previously worked for four years at Studio Central<\/strong> where she worked on the Iranian co-production Divine Comedy<\/em> which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. She was also a member of the management team at Studio Zentral and produced award-winning series such as Made in Germany<\/em> and Appropriately Angry<\/em>.<\/p>

The producer has extensive experience in the industry: she worked for twelve years at the Berlin International Film Festival<\/strong>founded the Berlinale Series<\/strong> and managed it. She then worked at YouTube Gaming<\/strong> and graduated from the renowned EAVE Producers Workshop<\/strong>.<\/p>

Zentropa announces that, under Azizi's leadership, the strengthen our German market presence<\/strong> and to promote local productions and international co-productions. In a statement, Azizi emphasises that she wants to build a bridge between the German creative scene and Zentropa's international network.<\/p>

The management of Zentropa, consisting of Louise Vesth<\/strong> and Sisse Graum J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong>emphasised that Azizi has extensive knowledge of European cinema and will enrich the theatre's future German projects both in terms of content and artistry.<\/p>

Fabian Gasmia remains involved in ongoing projects, including the German co-production of Nikolaj Arcel's new feature film My Fairytale Life<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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Die Produzentin Solmaz Azizi \u00fcbernimmt ab dem 1. September 2026 die Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrung der deutschen Niederlassung von Zentropa, dem d\u00e4nischen Produktionshaus hinter Filmen wie Nymphomaniac und Der Rausch. Sie folgt auf…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":32981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-minimal.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fuehrungswechsel","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32985,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions\/32985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligence.ensider.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}