Film producer Regina Ziegler is dead

The film and television producer Regina Ziegler is dead. She died unexpectedly on Sunday in Berlin at the age of 82, as a spokesman for Ziegler Film GmbH confirmed to the German Press Agency. The “Bild” newspaper had previously reported.

Ziegler, born in Quedlinburg in 1944, is considered the first woman in the Federal Republic to found her own film production company. In 1973, at the age of 29, she started her own business. Her first feature film, “I thought I was dead,” was also Wolf Gremm’s directorial debut. The two married in 1979, and Gremm died in 2015. According to his own statements, Ziegler was responsible for a total of around 500 productions for cinema and television.

In an interview with the media service Teleschau in 2023, Ziegler called herself the first female film producer and added: “That’s always what’s attributed to me, so I’ll accept it that way.”

She most recently ran the Berlin company Ziegler Film together with her daughter. According to “Bild”, Ziegler was working on new projects until recently. Her last public appearance was on October 6th at the premiere of one of her films in Berlin.