Hauke Bartel, born in Hamburg in 1985, is EVP Fiction at RTL Deutschland. His career in television began in the commissioning and acquisitions team of VOX and RTL in 2014. In 2017, he moved to the newly created position of Head of Fiction at VOX, before becoming EVP Fiction at RTL Deutschland in 2020 with responsibility for all original drama productions at RTL+, RTL and VOX. Current productions include series such as “Softies”, „Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl“, „Angemessen Angry“, “Euphorie”, and “Die Nibelungen“. Hauke Bartel is a member of the film funding committees of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Film and Media Foundation) and the FFF Bayern (Film Commission Bayern).