Head of Culture & Sciences, ZDF/ARTE, Germany

Martin Pieper grew up in Tunisia and Ivory Coast. After law studies in Cologne (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) he practised a short time as attorney.

From 1990-1994 he was at ZDF resp. ZDF Enterprises (commercial branch of ZDF) responsible for legal and business affairs of the ECA (European Coproduction Association, a joint venture between Channel 4, France 2, ORF, RAI, SRG/SSR, TVE and ZDF with the aim to coproduce long running series and TV movies) as well as for some chosen international coproductions.

From 1994-1996 he was Assistant of the Director for European Joint Venture Programmes (Direktor Europäische Programmbeteiligungen) and from 1996-2000 Assistant of the Director for European Satellite Programmes (Direktor Europäische Satellitenprogramme - 3sat, ARTE, Digitaler Theaterkanal, ZDF-Vision).

Since 2000 he is as commissioning editor head of the department culture & science programmes/ARTE, which supplies programmes for mostly all single documentary slots aired on ARTE.

From 1999-2001, resp. since 2003 he has been member of the funding board of the Baden-Württemberg Film Funding Corporation (Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg/MFG).

pieper.m@zdf.de