Regina Ziegler


Regina Ziegler is a German film and television producer.
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Life and career

Born in Quedlinburg, the daughter of a journalist, Ziegler briefly studied law at the Free University of Berlin, before dropping her studies to work at the Sender Freies Berlin as a production assistant. Germany's first female film producer, she started her own independent company Ziegler Films in 1973. She produced about 500 works between cinema and television, including the Golden Lion winner film A Year of [the Quiet Sun] by Krzysztof Zanussi, as well as works by Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Wajda, Ulrich Schamoni and her life-partner Wolf Gremm.
During her career Ziegler received various awards and honours, including a Romy Award for her career, a Lifetime, and the Order of Merit of the [Federal Republic of Germany|Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class]. She served as a juror at the 44th Venice International Film Festival. In 2006, her career was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.