UFA’s Nico Hofman Steps Down As CEO Of German Drama Powerhouse – Deadline
UFA’s long-serving CEO Nico Hofmann is stepping down from his publish and changing into Chairman of Fremantle’s German powerhouse, with former RTL and exec Sascha Schwingel changing him.
Hofman has been chief exec of the Deutschland 83 and Era Warfare maker since 2017 however has been with the corporate for greater than 1 / 4 of a century. In that sense, his exit from the CEO publish marks the top of an period.
Hofman had joined in 1998 to arrange TeamWorx, which is now UFA Fiction, and went on to supply a lot of Germany’s best-travelling drama collection. Notably Deutschland 83 was the primary from the nation to air on a U.S. community.
His alternative, Schwingel, was most just lately Deputy Chief Content material Officer of RTL Deutschland, overseeing the likes of RTL Tv, RTL+ and VOX, the place he was beforehand CEO. He’s well-known to Hofman having began his profession at TeamWorx. There he oversaw exhibits akin to occasion collection Die Sturmflut, Dresden and Die Hindenburg earlier than transferring to ARD Degeto, the place he labored on Babylon Berlin.
With instant impact, he shall be primarily based in Berlin and report back to Fremantle CEO for Continental Europe and Group COO Andrea Scrosati, as effectively becoming a member of the manufacturing big’s international management staff.
“I wish to personally thank Nico for his hard-work and dedication to UFA for the previous 26 years,” stated Fremantle Group CEO Jennifer Mullin. “With him on the helm, UFA has maintained its place as a number one German media firm and a significant a part of the Fremantle Group. We’re delighted he’ll grow to be Chairman and keep throughout the Fremantle household. On the similar time, I’m so happy to welcome Sascha again to the enterprise and stay up for working with him to form and drive UFA’s future.”
“After 26 years with Bertelsmann and eight years on the helm of UFA I’ve determined, along with Jennifer Mullin and Andrea Scrosati, to cross on the management of UFA,” stated Hofmann. “In Sascha, who’s a buddy and colleague for a few years, we’ve got discovered an skilled and extremely proficient successor. With nice inventive vitality, Sascha has pursued a profitable profession at our subsidiary teamWorx, at public broadcaster ARD and at RTL Deutschland – evolving as an clever supervisor with a powerful repute within the inventive scene.
UFA includes of 4 profitable manufacturing items: UFA Fiction, which is behind the Deutschland franchise and Helgoland 513; UFA Serial Drama, which makes soaps akin to Unter Uns and Alles was zählt; UFA Present & Factual and UFA Documentary, which made Prime Video’s All or Nothing: The Nationwide Workforce in Katar.
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