Banijay Productions Germany GmbH has expanded its portfolio into documentary series with a new label, Doc.Banijay. The new entity is set to be led by Executive Producer Marc Schlömer, who reports to Banijay Productions Managing Director, Arno Schneppenheim.
Marc Schlömer has spent 20 years at broadcaster ARD as a Bundesliga football league commentator, and as the author of documentaries including “Das Leben ist ein Hauch”. During his time there, he was awarded a German Television Award for his reports for WDR magazine, Sport Inside. Schlömer is also known for addressing climate change and socio-politics topics, having produced projects for ARD-Weltspiegel and Swiss Television. These are areas which he will continue to tackle through the Banijay-backed Doc unit.
Schlömer is renouncing his participation as a reporter at the Olympic Games but will maintain his broadcasting roles for ARD at the European Football Championship. Additionally, he will continue to contribute to Sport Inside and the online series "No Sports!?" for WDR. Other genres, including Factual, Reality and Comedy will continue to be led by Banijay Productions Germany’s Creative Director, Katrin Heller.
"For me, the fact that I get the chance to co-found and build a docu-department within Europe's largest production group is an honour. I am grateful to the ARD managers for allowing me to step back from upcoming tasks in the summer so that we can get started straight away at Banijay Productions Germany," Marc Schlömer commented.
Arno Schneppenheim, Managing Director of Banijay Productions Germany, added: "I have long been interested in the genre of journalistic documentation, and with brilliant talent such as Marc leading, we have the perfect expert to create this new arm within Banijay Productions Germany".
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