Management shake-up at ZDF

There has been a shake-up at German public broadcaster ZDF.

Reinold Elshot is moving from Movie Film and TV Production, a production subsidiary of ZDF’s commercial arm ZDF Enterprises, to become head of TV movies and deputy program director at the main ZDF channel.

Wolfgang Cimera will replace Elshot as head of Movie Film and TV Production, which is one of Germany’s largest producers of scripted programming.

Cimera, previously production manager at the company, will run Movie Film and TV Production jointly with Jutta Lieck-Klenke from this June.