Long-Serving ZDF Studios International Exec Volker Lehmann To Retire After 30 Years; Eva Kamin Rises
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: ZDF Studios is saying goodbye to one of its longest-serving international execs. Volker Lehmann, Vice President Acquisitions and Coproductions, ZDF, at the pubcaster’s commercial arm, is retiring at the end of June “to pursue new challenges.” He has been at the German broadcaster for more than 30 years, licensing content for ZDF and its family of channels.
Since 2013, he has been head of the ZDF acquisitions and co-productions department, which negotiates commercial terms for content buys and co-pros.
This includes ZDF, Franco-German cultural channel ARTE, 3sat, children’s channel Phoenix and ZDF’s digital channels ZDFneo and ZDFinfo.
Eva Kamin will take over as Vice President, Acquisitions and Coproductions for ZDF on 1 July. A lawyer by training, she began at ZDF Studios in 2006 as a corporate lawyer, responsible for contract management for the network and the commercial wing.
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