Regina Ziegler
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Ziegler in 2007
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| Born | (1944-03-08) 8 March 1944 (age 80)
Quedlinburg, Germany
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Regina Ziegler (born 8 March 1944) is a German film and television producer.
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.[1][2][3] Germany's first female film producer,[4] she started her own independent company Ziegler Films in 1973.[2] She produced about 500 works between cinema and television,[5] including the Golden Lion winner film A Year of the Quiet SunbyKrzysztof Zanussi, as well as works by Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Wajda, Ulrich Schamoni and her life-partner Wolf Gremm.[2][5]
During her career Ziegler received various awards and honours, including a Romy Award for her career,[6] a Lifetime Carl Laemmle Produzentenpreis [de], and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.[5] She served as a juror at the 44th Venice International Film Festival.[7] In 2006, her career was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[2][5]
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