BRUNO PATINO:
ARTE TV:
Bruno Patino
President of ARTE GEIE and ARTE France
Bruno Patino
Bruno Patino © Paul Blind
Born on 8 March 1965 in Courbevoie (France)
Professional Experience
ARTE GEIE, Strasbourg
since January 2021: President
October – December 2020: Vice President
ARTE France, Paris
since July 2020: President of the Executive Board
November 2015 – July 2020: Editorial Director, Member of the Executive Board
France Télévisions
February 2013 – August 2015: General Director of on-air programmes and digital development
October 2010 – February 2013: Director of France 5
October 2010 – February 2013: Director of Strategy and Digital
Radio France
September 2008 – September 2010: Director of France Culture
May 2010 – October 2010: Digital Strategy Advisor to the President of Radio France
Le Monde Group
2007: Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of Le Monde Group
2003-2008: Chairman of the Executive Board and Publishing Director of Télérama
2005-2008: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Publicat, managing the advertising department of Le Monde Group magazines
2000-2008: Chief Executive Officer of Le Monde Interactif
1999-2001: General Secretary of the Executive Board of Le Monde Group in 1999 and, concurrently, Deputy Editor of the monthly magazine “Les Cahiers du Cinéma” (1999-2001) and of the cultural supplement “Aden” (1999-2001).
Hachette Livre
1998-1999: Secretary General of the Literature Division
1997-1998: Secretary General of Éditions Hazan
Canal +
1996: Policy Officer, Canal+ Directorate General for international business
InfoMatin
1994-1996: Deputy Director of daily newspaper InfoMatin
Le Monde
1991-1994: Permanent correspondent for Le Monde in Santiago, Chile
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
1991-1993: Programme Officer, Field Office in Santiago, Chile
CCF-Interfinanz
1989-1991: Project Manager in Dusseldorf (Germany)
Education
2004: INSEAD, graduate of the Advanced Management Programme, Fontainebleau
1998: University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Doctor of Political Science
1989: Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC, USA. Master of Arts (MA) with honours
1987: Graduate of ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise
1986: Graduate of Sciences Po Paris, highly commended by the jury, Public Service section
WDR
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne
22,00% Christiane Hinz
SWR
Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart 16,75% Dr Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri
NDR
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg 16,25% Ulrike Dotzer
BR
Bayrischer Rundfunk, Munich 14,50% Sonja Schneider
MDR
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Leipzig 10,50% Dr Ulrich Brochhagen
RBB
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 8,00% Søren Schumann
HR
Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt 7,00% Arne Kapitza
RB
Radio Bremen, Bremen 2,50% Mechtild Lehning
SR
Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 2,50% Natalie Weber
50% ZDF
COORDINATOR
The Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (“Second German Television”) is based in Mainz and provides half of the ARTE programmes provided by the German Member.
Wolfgang Bergmann
Marita Hübinger
Martin Pieper
Rebecca Gross
Alexander Bohr
Helmut Rau (chairperson)
Former Minister, SWR Dr Richard Meng (vice chairperson)
Former Secretary of State, ZDF
Catharina Herrmann-Daues
NDR Dr Michael-Andreas Butz
Michael Knapp
SR Prof Dr Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich
Bernd Lammel
RBB Michael Jörg
Frank-Michael Nemetz
MDR Katrin Kroemer
Robert Stauffer
BR Dr Gerd Landsberg
Hildegard Klär
HR Jenny Luca Renner
Thomas von Zabern
RB Rainer Robra
Secretary of State
Rolf Zurbrüggen
WDR Prof Dr Heidi Schelhowe
General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Prof Dr Kai Gniffke (WDR) is the Chairperson of the General Assembly and Dr Thomas Bellut, Director-General of ZDF, the Vice Chairperson.
Wolfgang Bergmann
Managing Director ARTE Deutschland and ARTE Coordinator of the ZDF
Wolfgang Bergmann
Wolfgang Bergmann © Carmen Sauerbrei/ZDF
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany on 2nd November, 1962
Professional Background
ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH, Baden-Baden
Since October 2011: Managing director of ARTE Deutschland GmbH and ARTE Coordinator of the ZDF
Since 1998: Head of the Theatre and Music unit
ZDF (Mainz)
2010-September 2011: Coordinator of the ZDFkultur / Theatre Group
2001-2010: Head of ZDFtheaterkanal (the ZDF’s theatre channel) alongside carrying out missions for 3sat and ARTE
3sat (Mainz)
Since 1998: Head of the Theatre Group, ZDF / 3sat
1994-1998: Head of Communication
Until 1994: Press and Public Relations Officer and Commissioning Editor of Theatre programs
Teaching
2008-2010: Founder, director and teacher at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst (Academy of the Performing Arts), Baden-Württemberg
2006 University of Mainz
Goethe Institute
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (University of TV and Film), Potsdam
Education and Training
1982-1989: Studies in ethnology, journalism and German literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Honours
2007: Filmkunstpreis für Fernsehen (film award in the TV category), International Filmfestival in Mannheim-Heidelberg
2006: German Critics Award in the TV category
Dr Markus Nievelstein
Managing Director ARTE Deutschland and ARTE Coordinator of the ARD
Markus Nievelstein
Dr Markus Nievelstein © Frédéric Maigrot
Born 30 June 1961 in Mönchengladbach
Professional experience
ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)
since December 2016: Managing Director and ARTE ARD Coordinator
ARTE G.E.I.E. (Strasbourg)
2013-2016: Director of Knowledge Unit
WDR (Cologne)
2001-2012: Head of information programmes for North Rhineland-Westphalia
1997-2001: Assistant to the Director of WDR televised programmes, Jörn Klamroth
1991-1997: Journalist/writer for the daily programmes “Aktuelle Stunde”, “WDR aktuell”, “Hier und Heute” broadcast by WDR and the ARD national channel
Journalist
1979-1988: Journalist-freelancer for various newspapers and magazines (“Rheinische Post”, “Der Journalist”) and radio and television for WDR and “Süddeutscher Rundfunk” (which became Südwestrundfunk SWR in 1998 after the merger with Südwestfunk) in parallel with his school and university studies
1982-1985: Editor-in-Chief of a youth association publication (“direct”)
Education
1982-1991: History, political science and musicology studies in Bonn, Paris and Bochum, leading to a master’s and a PhD in history of economics.
PhD dissertation on the German (and French) steel industry in Alsace-Lorraine between 1871 and 1918
Other
Member of the Deutscher Fernsehpreis Committee (German Television Awards), since its creation in 1999
Frédéric Béreyziat
Directeur Général chargé des Ressources d'ARTE France
Frédéric Béreyziat
Frédéric Béreyziat © ARTE
Diplômé de l’ENA et de HEC, Frédéric Béreyziat commence sa carrière en 2001 au Conseil d’État et exerce dans ce cadre des missions de conseil juridique notamment auprès de la Direction du développement des médias rattachée au Premier Ministre. De 2005 à 2009, il est successivement Conseiller à l’Ambassade de France en Grèce puis Adjoint au sous-directeur de la direction d‘Afrique du nord et du Moyen-Orient. Entre 2009 et 2015, il travaille au CNC notamment comme Directeur des affaires européennes et internationales avant de rejoindre Unifrance comme Directeur général adjoint jusqu’en 2019. En 2018, il a aussi été l’un des rapporteurs de la mission parlementaire relative à la préfiguration juridique et financière du futur Centre national de la musique. À partir d’avril 2019 jusqu’à son arrivée à ARTE France, il était Directeur général adjoint de la Cinémathèque française.
Boris Razon
Editorial Director, ARTE France
Boris Razon, ARTE France
Boris Razon studied history at École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud. During his studies, he cofounded the Don Quichotte magazine before joining Le Monde.fr, later becoming the Editor in Chief.
He went on to become Head of New Writing at France Télévisions, Editorial Director at France 4, then headed the editorial team at Slate.
Boris Razon has been a consultant and author since 2017, working on projects such as developing podcasts for Initial Studio. He also teaches digital and long form writing at the School of Journalism at Sciences Po and the Sorbonne. He has also written two novels, Palladium (2013) and Écoute (2018), as well as an essay, Les nouvelles guerres: Sur la piste des hackers russes (The New Wars: On the Trail of Russian Hackers), with Étienne Huver (2019).
Boris Razon has been Editorial Director of ARTE France since 7 September 2020.
Françoise Benhamou (vice president)
Economist and Professor at the University of Paris XIII Axel Linstädt (president)
Member of the BR Broadcasting Council, composer, former artistic director of the International Music Contest of ARD
Natacha Valla
Economist, Dean of the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation Prof Dr Maria Böhmer
President of the German Commission for UNESCO, seconded from the ZDF Supervisory Committee
Jean-Etienne Cohen-Séat
Publisher Jörn Dulige
Vice Chairperson of the HR Broadcasting Council, Commissioner of Protestant churches in Hesse
Bernard Faivre d’Arcier
Former senior civil servant in the Ministry of Culture Prof Dr Dr Wolfgang Jäger
Seconded from the ZDF Supervisory Committee, Former President of the University of Freiburg
Judith Louis
Producer and Consultant Juliane Kremberg
Member of the RBB Broadcasting Council, Berlin-Brandenburg Federation of Youth Organisations (Landesjugendring)
Aurélie Luneau
Historian and Radio producer Oliver Passek
Seconded from the ZDF Supervisory Committee, film and media expert at the Ministry of science, research and art, Baden-Wurttemberg
Catherine Tasca
Former Secretary of Culture and Communication Angela Spizig
Presenter for programmes on cinema and literature, seconded from the ZDF Supervisory Committee
Monique Veaute
Founder of the Romaeuropa Arte e Cultura Foundation Sandro Witt
Member of the MDR Broadcasting Council, Vice Chairperson of the Federation of German Trade Unions’ Department in Hesse-Thuringia
European Partners (in an advisory capacity):
ČT, Film Fund Luxembourg, ORF, RAI Com, RTBF, RTÉ, SRG SSR, Yle
Nicolas Seydoux
Vice Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
Nicolas Seydoux
Nicolas Seydoux © Frédéric Maigrot
Born in Paris on 16 July 1939
Career
ARTE
since 2021: Vice Chairperson of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
2016-2020: Chairperson of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
October 2015: Vice Chairperson of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
since 2003: Vice Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of ARTE France and member of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
Gaumont
since 2004: Chairman of the Supervisory Board
1975-2004: Chairman and CEO
1974-1975: Director General
Morgan Stanley, New York and Paris
1970-1974: Financial Analyst
Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique CII
1967-1970: Head of Legal Department
Forum d’Avignon
2008-2014: Head of Legal Department
ALPA (French Association against Audiovisual Piracy)
since 2002: President
Education
Graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies
Bachelor of Law and Economics
Tom Buhrow
Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
Tom Buhrow
Tom Buhrow © WDR/Annika Fußwinkel
Born in Troisdorf on 29 September 1958
Professional Experience
ARTE GEIE, Strasbourg
since January 2021: Chairman of the General Assembly
2013–2020: Member of the General Assembly
ARD
since January 2020: Chairman
ARTE Deutschland, Baden-Baden
since October 2013: Member of the General Assembly
WDR
since July 2013: Director
ARD (1992–2013)
2006–2013: Anchorman of the daily news programme Tagesthemen
2002–2006: Director ARD studio in Washington, D.C.
2000–2002: Correspondent ARD studio in Paris
1994–2000: Correspondent ARD studio in Washington, D.C.
1992–1994: Editor of the daily news bulletin Tagesschau, Cologne
WDR (1985–1992)
1990–1992: Host of the news programme Aktuelle Stunde
1986: Editor, including of the fledgling news programme West 3 Aktuell
1985: Internship WDR, Cologne
1978–1985
Work on various daily newspapers
Education
1978–1984: Studied History, Political Science, and Rhenish History and Culture at the University of Bonn
FRENCH REPRESENTATIVES
GERMAN REPRESENTATIVES
Nicolas Seydoux (Vice Chairperson)
Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Gaumont Tom Buhrow (Chaiperson)
President of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Chairperson of the German association of public broadcasters ARD
Anne Durupty
Advisor to the Presidency of ARTE France Prof Dr Kai Gniffke
President of Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Chairperson of the General Assembly of ARTE Deutschland
Jean-Baptiste Gourdin
Director-General of the Media and Cultural Industries Board (DGMIC), French Ministry of Culture Martin Grasmück
President of Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR)
Charles Sarrazin
Director of Transports and Audiovisual Affairs Division at the Government Shareholding Agency, French Ministry of Economics and Finance Dr Thomas Bellut
President of Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Jean-Dominique Giuliani
President of the Robert Schuman Foundation, president of the ILERI Dr Frank D. Freiling
Director of International Affairs, ZDF
Thomas Serval
Entrepreneur, CEO of Kolibree Heike Hempel
Deputy Programme Director and Director of Fictions/ Series II, ZDF
European Partners (in an advisory capacity):
ČT – Petr Dvořák (Director general)
ORF – Dr Alexander Wrabetz (Director general)
RAI Com – Teresa De Santis (President)
RTBF – Jean-Paul Philippot (Director general)
RTÉ – Dee Forbes (Director general)
SRG SSR – Gilles Marchand (Director general)
YLE – Merja Ylä-Anttila (CEO)
Film Fund Luxembourg – Guy Daleiden (Managing Director)
Emmanuel Suard
Administrative Director and member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE
Emmanuel Suard
Emmanuel Suard © Ludovic Maisant
Born in Lille, France in 1970
Professional experience
ARTE GEIE, Strasbourg
since January 2017: Administrative Director and member of the Management Board
2005-2012: Deputy Programme Director, responsible for programming & studies and for TV (2011-2012)
French Embassy, Berlin
2012-2016: Cultural Counsellor, Director of the Institut Français in Germany
ARTE France, Paris
2002-2003: Development Director and member of the Executive Board
2001-2003: ARTE GEIE Programme Committee representative
2000-2002: Head of the President’s Office
Cour des Comptes (Court of Public Audit), Paris
2016: chief auditor, 5th Chamber
1996-2000: auditor, then senior auditor, 6th Chamber
Education
Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, Strasbourg and Paris)
Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP, Paris)
Graduated in history, Paris I
Languages
French
German
English
Bernd Mütter
Programme Director
Bernd Mütter
Bernd Mütter © Frédéric Maigrot
Born in Paderborn on 18 April 1977
Professional Background
Since January 2018: Managing Director and Programme Director, ARTE G.E.I.E., Strasbourg.
June 2015 – December 2017: Deputy Programme Director and Head of TV/Web Programme Planning, ARTE G.E.I.E., Strasbourg. Responsible for programme planning, online content, media research and broadcasting.
July 2012-June 2015: Supervised selected programme projects, such as the 10-part documentary Geliebte Feinde. Die Deutschen und die Franzosen
2011-June 2015: Advisor to the Director of European Satellite Programmes and ARTE Vice-President Dr Gottfried Langenstein
2008-2011: Managing editor at the weekly TV magazine ZDF-History, authored documentaries and contributions to ZDF-History, heute-journal, ZDFspezial, etc.
2008-2011: Lectured in history journalism at Justus Liebig University, Giessen
2004-2007: Editor at ZDF, Contemporary History Unit, researcher for historical TV documentaries, author of articles on contemporary history for magazines and popular science books
1996-2004: Free-lance newspaper journalist
Education
1997-2004: Studied history at the University of Bielefeld (minors: German, theology) and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
1999-2000: Member of the University of Bielefeld Senate
1996: Advanced school-leaving certificate from the Gymnasium in Verl
Works and publications
2013: Edited Geliebte Feinde. Die Deutschen und die Franzosen, ZDF/ARTE (10-part documentary, with Wolfgang Bergmann and Stefan Brauburger), conceptual design for the accompanying website (with Marlene Stube and Katharina Krohmann)
2010: Authored the prime-time documentary Der 11. September 2001. Der Tag des Terrors (with Alexander Berkel)
2010: Authored the documentary Schicksalstag 1. Mai – Der lange Weg zum Tag der Arbeit (with Christel Fomm)
2008: Authored the prime-time documentary Die heißesten Momente des Kalten Krieges, ZDF (with Andreas Orth et al.)
Awards
2014: Series Geliebte Feinde. Die Deutschen und die Franzosen [Beloved Enemies: The Germans and the French] nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis
2014: Online pendant to Geliebte Feinde. Die Deutschen und die Franzosen nominated for the Deutsch-Französischer Journalistenpreis
BRUNO PATINO
Born on 8 March 1965 in Courbevoie (France)
Professional Experience
ARTE GEIE, Strasbourg
since January 2021: President
October – December 2020: Vice President
ARTE France, Paris
since July 2020: President of the Executive Board
November 2015 – July 2020: Editorial Director, Member of the Executive Board
France Télévisions
February 2013 – August 2015: General Director of on-air programmes and digital development
October 2010 – February 2013: Director of France 5
October 2010 – February 2013: Director of Strategy and Digital
Radio France
September 2008 – September 2010: Director of France Culture
May 2010 – October 2010: Digital Strategy Advisor to the President of Radio France
Le Monde Group
2007: Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of Le Monde Group
2003-2008: Chairman of the Executive Board and Publishing Director of Télérama
2005-2008: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Publicat, managing the advertising department of Le Monde Group magazines
2000-2008: Chief Executive Officer of Le Monde Interactif
1999-2001: General Secretary of the Executive Board of Le Monde Group in 1999 and, concurrently, Deputy Editor of the monthly magazine “Les Cahiers du Cinéma” (1999-2001) and of the cultural supplement “Aden” (1999-2001).
Hachette Livre
1998-1999: Secretary General of the Literature Division
1997-1998: Secretary General of Éditions Hazan
Canal +
1996: Policy Officer, Canal+ Directorate General for international business
InfoMatin
1994-1996: Deputy Director of daily newspaper InfoMatin
Le Monde
1991-1994: Permanent correspondent for Le Monde in Santiago, Chile
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
1991-1993: Programme Officer, Field Office in Santiago, Chile
CCF-Interfinanz
1989-1991: Project Manager in Dusseldorf (Germany)
Education
2004: INSEAD, graduate of the Advanced Management Programme, Fontainebleau
1998: University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Doctor of Political Science
1989: Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC, USA. Master of Arts (MA) with honours
1987: Graduate of ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise
1986: Graduate of Sciences Po Paris, highly commended by the jury, Public Service section
PETER WEBER
Born in Mainz in November 1959
Professional Experience
ARTE GEIE, Strasbourg
since January 2021: Vice President
2012–2020: Member of the General Assembly
ARTE Deutschland, Baden-Baden
2012–2020: Member of the General Assembly
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (since November 1991)
since July 2011: Head of Legal Affairs
2001–2011: Deputy Head of Legal Affairs, responsible for sports rights, film and producers
1991–2001: Legal Affairs, responsible for copyright and international law
Adjunct Activities
2002–2017: President (2007–2017) and Vice President (2002–2007) of the EBU Legal and Policy Committee
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Verwertungssgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten (VFF)
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung, the FilmFernsehfonds Bayern, and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, and of the Board of Directors of the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
before 1991
1989–1991: Public prosecutor for financial crime in Koblenz
1988–1989: Judge at Koblenz Regional Court
Education
1988: Second State Examination in Law
1985: First State Examination in Law
1979–1985: Studied Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
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