New GM in Place at ZDF Enterprises Production Subsidiary

MAINZ: Wolfgang Cimera is taking over from Reinhold Elschot as the general manager and producer of Network Movie Film and TV Production, a subsidiary of ZDF Enterprises that produces TV movies and series.

Elschot will take up his new post as head of TV movies and deputy program director at ZDF this summer, while Cimera takes on his new duties June 1. He will run the company jointly with Jutta Lieck-Klenke.

Cimera has been production manager at Network Movie in Cologne for the last four years, and previously held roles as a production manager for Endemol Deutschland and Sony Pictures. His post as production manager with Network Movie in Cologne will be filled by Annette Oswald, who is relocating from Munich.

"At times like these I am particularly pleased to be able to step into such an exciting position in a company I have been linked with for so long, where I can really identify with the company program," Cimera commented.

Alexander Coridass, the president and CEO of ZDF Enterprises, said: "Wolfgang Cimera has displayed impressive creative and managerial skills in his work for Network Movie on project development, production and company development. I have every confidence that he will continue and expand the extraordinarily successful work performed by Reinhold Elschot, in association with Jutta Lieck-Klenke."

Elschot added that he expects his successor "to come up with new impulses while maintaining a high degree of continuity in the production of top-quality, successful fiction."