Sonya Winterberg, director, Dresden | Crew United

Known for

© Medienkontor Winterberg & Nagel

Made in Auschwitz - The Untold Story of Block 10
2014-2019
Director, screenwriter

Non-fictional movies as director

Year	Title	Genre	Director	Producer	Comment
2024	Headshots – Anja Niedringhaus, Fotografin (WT)	Documentary	Sonya Winterberg	Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
2019	Made in Auschwitz - The Untold Story of Block 10	Documentary, arte, Channel 8 [il], ZDFinfo [de]	Sonya Winterberg	Saxonia Entertainment GmbH [de]
2018	Eltern hinter Gittern	Documentary, WDR [de]	Multiple	Medienkontor Winterberg & Nagel [de]
2017	Echtes Leben - Väter hinter Gittern	Report (series), WDR [de]	Multiple	Medienkontor Winterberg & Nagel [de]
2017	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Documentary, arte, NDR [de]	Multiple	Medienkontor Winterberg & Nagel [de]

Non-fictional movies in other activities

Year	Title	Genre	Director	Producer	Comment
2019	Made in Auschwitz - The Untold Story of Block 10	Documentary, arte, Channel 8 [il], ZDFinfo [de]	Multiple	Saxonia Entertainment GmbH [de]	screenwriter
2018	Die jüngsten Opfer der Mauer	Documentary, rbb [de], WDR [de]	Multiple	Medienkontor Winterberg & Nagel [de]	idea
2017	Kollwitz - Ein Leben in Leidenschaft	Documentary, rbb [de]	Multiple	LOOKSfilm	creator

Film awards

Year	Film	Award	Category
2020	Made in Auschwitz - The Untold Story of Block 10	La Femme Int. Film Festival [us]	Best Documentary	Winner
2019	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Prix Média [ch]	Documentaire tourné à l'étranger - lobende Erwähn	Nominated
2019	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Alternativer Medienpreis [de]	Macht	Winner
2019	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Medienpreis der Kindernothilfe [de]	TV	Winner
2019	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Journalisten-Preis des Weißen Rings [de]	Television	Winner
2018	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	Deutsch-Franz. Journalistenpreis [de, fr]	Video	Nominated
2018	Dark Business. Child Trafficking in the Heart of Europe	URTI Int. Grand Prix for Author's Documentary [fr]	Offical selection	Nominated

Basic data

Languages	EnglishFinnishFrenchGermanSwedish
Experience abroad	Arctic: Arctic Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua Central Europe: Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Switzerland North America: Alaska, Canada, Greenland, USA Northern Europe: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden East Asia: Japan Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine South America: Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay South Asia: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan Southern Europe: Andorra, Italy, Malta Southeastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania West Asia: Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Palestine Western Europe: Belgium, France, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Immediate working area	Dresden
1st residence (federal state or country)	Germany - Saxony
Accommodation possibilities	Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Bonn, Boston, Cottbus, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Edmonton, Essen, Halle, Harz, Heilbronn, Helsinki, Kampala, Konstanz, Leipzig, Los Angeles, Lucerne, Ludwigsburg, Montreal, Munich, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oslo, Passau, Philadelphia, Stuttgart
Associations	Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm [de] Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen e.V. [de] Verwertungsgesellschaft BILD-KUNST [de] Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten [de] Verwertungsgesellschaft WORT [de] WIFTG - Women in Film & Television Germany e.V. [de]