“50 Years of Ziegler Film: A Warm and Welcoming Birthday Party in Berlin”

Sometimes you can’t stop being amazed at how warm and welcoming things can be in Berlin. The birthday party for 50 years of Ziegler Film in the Tipi at the Chancellery on Thursday offered plenty of reason to do so. It started with a standing ovation for the film producers Regina and Tanja Ziegler.

After an entertaining compilation of the best productions from 50 years, thriller author Sebastian Fitzek dressed the everyday madness that this nerve-wracking business entails in the story of a large construction site for a film castle, where something is always going wrong.

You have to have a little one on the gossip.”

Sebastian Fitzek, Author

In the end, he found the answer to the question of how you have to tick to keep something like this going for decades: “You have to have a little one on the gossip.”

In any case, he himself still has sleepless nights from a single assignment as a co-producer years ago. And he also praised the fact that “the girls” lend a hand when the garbage truck can’t get through because of filming.

You have to show the men first that you don’t want to hurt them.

Regina Ziegler

In memory of the fee with which Regina Ziegler founded her company on April 27, 1973, he brought a framed 60 DM in original bills from the 70s as a gift: “I shot them on Ebay.”

The managing director of the producer alliance, Björn Boehning, had interview recordings of the young Regina Ziegler with him as a gift. He supplemented the footage of the birthday film with an original quote from Regina Ziegler: “First you have to show the men that you don’t want to hurt them.”

She still has her dreams as a girl.

Katharina Thalbachactress

He praised Regina Ziegler’s contribution to the presentation of the last 50 years of German history and assumed that all of this could only be maintained “with wit and chutzpah”. “She still has her dreams as a girl and she absolutely wants to make them come true,” Katharina Thalbach suspected of the 79-year-old producer in his film.

Always an ace up your sleeve

“The Zieglers remain inscrutable in a certain way, but always feel like they have an ace up their sleeve,” actress Lisa Wagner stated. At the beginning, Pasquale Aleardi and the Phonauts intoned a Ziegler hymn in which the refrain “Can’t do it, doesn’t exist for you” repeatedly appeared.

Of course, thanks to the public broadcasters, the streamers and service providers, the creative people in front of and behind the camera and the employees, including those from Baden-Baden, Munich and Cologne, were part of the program.

A speech about love

For example, the former governing mayors Klaus Wowereit and Michael Müller were also in the audience. The main characters, however, were family members such as 90-year-old Trude, who “had come all the way from Swabia”, or Tanja Ziegler’s daughter Emma, ​​who skipped university especially for this celebration.

Michel Friedman, who had come with his wife, gave a very personal eulogy to his girlfriend and her daughter.

He wanted to talk about love, he began his remarks. Regina Ziegler overwhelmed him with her strength and energy, and the love between her and her late husband Wolf Gremm overwhelmed him too.

He praised the recipe for success of “two stubborn women who don’t spit in the soup,” two people who constantly reinvent themselves and are willing to risk spending more money on art than they should.

In memory of the Udo Jürgens films, there were performances of “Greek Wine” and “Merci Chérie”. After a last standing ovation for the birthday ladies, the 450 guests complied with the wish of Regina Ziegler, who had proclaimed the “duty to celebrate” for this day.