Regina Ziegler, who founded the Berlin production company Ziegler Film in 1973 and ran it with her daughter Tanja Ziegler from 2000, died in Berlin on the morning of 1 November at 82, according to the company and German public broadcasters WDR and ZDF. ZDF counts more than 500 productions and calls her Germany's first woman film producer; her credits run from "Fabian" (1979/80), directed by her husband Wolf Gremm, through "Weissensee" and "Gladbeck" to ZDF's "Kommissarin Heller", "Lena Lorenz" and "Familie Bundschuh". Her current cinema release, Volker Schlöndorff's "Heimsuchung", premiered in Cannes and is playing in German cinemas now, federal film board FFA notes, and WDR lists an Emmy, the Grimme Preis, the Deutscher Filmpreis and a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art among her honours.
Regina Ziegler, Producer of Volker Schlöndorff's "Heimsuchung", Dies at 82
