FabFiction: Who we are

Brigitte Dithard studied German, French and Spanish literature and translation in Stuttgart and Barcelona. She acts as commissioning editor and drama consultant for SWR and is executive of the Stuttgart-part of the long-running national wide crime-series TATORT....

She also co-produces feature films for TV and cinema, short films and series, such as the French-German award-winning mini-series “Eden” with Arte France and the series “Wild republic” in coproduction with Telekom. She is a member of the EBU Fiction Bureau and lecturer in storytelling at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.

Prior to joining NDR in 2011, Sabine Holtgreve worked as commissioning editor at SWR and as producer at Wüste Film, Berlin. The films she was associated with have won several national and international awards.

She is a member of Deutsche Filmakademie (German Motion Picture Academy) and of the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs network (EAVE). At NDR, she is responsible for debut features, the long-running crime series “Tatort”, mini-series including “Dark Woods” (2020) and “The Vanishing” (2017) as well as theatrical feature films.

Since joining WDR in 2004 Frank Tönsmann has acted as commissioning editor on  several acclaimed series and feature-length films, such as "Im Angesicht des Verbrechens" (“In the Face of Crime”, 2010) and the collaboration DREILEBEN by Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler (2011).

He commissioned the “Tatort Dortmund” series in 2012 – now running in its tenth year. His feature films include “Me and Kaminski” (2015) by Wolfgang Becker and “Bloodsucker” by Julian Radlmeier, which premiered at the Berlinale Filmfestival in 2021.