EXCLUSIVE: German Cocaine Cowboy producer Beetz Brother Film Production has upped creative chief Georg Tschurtschenthaler to its management team.
Tschurtschenthaler was promoted from Chief Creative Officer on October 1, and immediately forms part of the Berlin management team, alongside company co-founder Christian Beetz. Reinhardt Beetz, the other co-founder, will continue to manage the Lüneburg office.
In his new role as co-Managing Director at the German doc producer’s Berlin office, Tschurtschenthaler will oversee the development and production of Beetz Brothers‘ key productions, with Christian Beetz switching focus to the international market, IP exploitation and high-revenue, large-scale projects.
“With Georg’s appointment to the management board, we are specifically expanding our involvement in the sports and track sectors, alongside the areas of investigation and true crime in order to continue growing organically in this challenging market environment,” said Christian Beetz, founder and co-Managing Director of Beetz Brothers Berlin.
Tschurtschenthaler has been CCO at Beetz Brothers since 2009, playing a key role in the production of shows such as the Grimme Award-winning doc The Cleaners, Sundance darling Eternal You and Andreas Pichler’s Dangerously Close. He’s also known as one of German TV’s most experienced showrunners, working on series such as Netflix’s A Perfect Crime and Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer, ARD’s Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 and Mafia Hunters, Sky’s Juan Carlos: Downfall of the King and Prime Video’s German Cocaine Cowboy, which won a German Television Award this year.
Reinhardt Beetz, founder and Managing Director of Beetz Brothers Lüneburg, said: “We have been working closely and trustingly together for many years – Georg’s appointment to the management board is a logical and important step in further advancing our vision of documentary storytelling at the highest level.”
“I am very honored about the trust placed in me and my new responsibilities in the management team,” said Tschurtschenthaler. “We want to continue to prove that commercial success and quality are not mutually exclusive and reach a large audience with our content.”
Beetz Brother is part of Leonine Studios, which is turn is owned by French consolidator Mediawan Group.
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