Kathi Possert

Kathi Possert was studying sociology in Vienna when she came into contact with the world of film by chance. First as a PA, later as a production manager and finally as an executive producer, she worked on numerous national and international TV commercials, first in Vienna and since 2009 in Berlin. In between, she repeatedly made detours into fictional television and the TV world: for example, she produced several seasons of David Schalko's ORF late-night format "Sendung ohne Namen" (2003 Golden Romy for the most innovative TV idea, 2004 finalist at the New York Television Award) and all of the 5 essay films by visual artist Markus Schinwald, whose video works were commissioned and exhibited by renowned museums such as the Tate Modern in London, the Musee d'art Modern de Paris and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. One of the works represented Austria at the 54th Venice Art Biennale. In 2016, she finally turned to fictional film "for good" and produced the ZDF-Kleine Fernsehespiel, the comedy "Lucky Loser - ein Sommer in der Bredouille" (directed by Nico Sommer, 2017) for Neue Schönhauser Film. Seven more TV films for ARD/Degeto and ZDF followed; most recently, she produced the two-part ARD biopic "Alice" (directed by Nicole Weegmann) about Alice Schwarzer's achievements in the women's movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. "Der Upir" (for Joyn) is her first completed series project and also the first production for her new production home Ufa-Fiction.