Claudia Tronnier

Director of Cinema, TV and and Series at ARTE G.E.I.E. in Strasbourg/France
Since January 2021 Claudia Tronnier is the Head of Cinema, TV and Series at Arte G.E.I.E. In this respect she is also member of the programme-conference and holds responsible for the coordination, selection and programming of fictional programmes airing on Arte and Arte.tv.
Claudia Tronnier studied comparative religion, new german literature, Indology and science of media in Marburg/Germany. She wrote about films in different media before becoming a freelancer at the public broadcaster Second German Television (ZDF) in Mainz in1990. There she joined the talent department Das kleine Fernsehspiel as a commissioning editor for feature films, documentaries and different kinds of experimental formats. In 2008 she was appointed Head of Das kleine Fernsehspiel. During her time in ZDF she commissioned a great number of national and international coproductions among them several films by turkish/german filmmakers and filmmakers who have roots in other countries. She established a supporting programme for women filmmakers and is co-founder of a prize for female directors, the SI STAR.