Joerg Winger


Joerg Winger is an Executive Producer 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.

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 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 in June 2015 and on RTL 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 Berlin Film Festival and has gone on to win a number of awards including: The Grimmepreis, Goldene Kamera, Peabody Award, and an International Emmy.
Winger is co-creator and executive producer of Hackerville, a six part German-Romanian cyber crime drama for HBO Europe 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.

Filmography (Producer)

2007-2008: Ein Fall für Nadja
2008: The Bill

2011: :de:World Express – Atemlos durch Mexiko|World Express-Atemlos durch Mexiko

2013: SOKO: Der Prozess

2015: Deutschland 83

2002–2018: Leipzig Homicide

2018: Hackerville

2018: Deutschland 86

2020: Deutschland 89