JULIA FROEHLICH
Chief Executive Producer at Department. With over 30 years of professional experience in a global environment, she founded Department with a clear vision a decade ago: to use her wealth of knowledge, in collaboration with a reliable, professional, and passionate team, to make every project on her desk even better and more efficient. She takes on every project with a fresh mind and is unafraid of laying out the facts (and hard truths), so that all projects will get done successfully. Julia delivers unique solutions that cater specifically to the task at hand, the brand on the screen and the client in front of her.
Cell: +49 (0) 160 969 73 252 Mail: froehlich@department-frankfurt.com
MICHÈLE LENZ
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Producer. Her origin is account and project management. She is a strong communicator and shows strong leadership. With over 20 years of experience very little can shock her and she will help you get the most difficult project delivered on time.
Cell: +49 (0) 162 26 93 704 Mail: lenz@department-frankfurt.com
ALEXANDRA FRANZKE
Senior Producer who has been in the business since almost forever. She is experienced with all formats, all budgets, all products and all clients. She will keep multiple sets, multiple deliverables and multiple shooting blocks in check, making her the expert for multi-faceted campaigns.
Cell: +49 (0) 172 67 37 886 Mail: franzke@department-frankfurt.com
LUKAS HIRSCHFELDER
Versatile producer who directly transitioned from communications studies into the freelance world. He has overseen numerous commercial productions, always with the goal of ensuring a seamless run. His work spans both production and technical areas, allowing him to build a broad knowledge base. He has a hands-on mentality that will guarantee the timely and successful delivery of materials.
Cell: +49 (0) 163 3444 669 Mail: hirschfelder@department-frankfurt.com
LAURA LEHNERT
Seasoned producer that started her career in commercials, moved to fiction and series and has now come back to the short format. Being in production she knows how to set up a successful project from the start and monitoring its success until the finish line and also the phase-out. With her background in features she also stands out as strong producer for storytelling commercial formats.
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TANJA BRECHMANN
Tanja's career covers a wide span of creative roles that eventually led to her dream: working in film. Translating briefings and tasks into a visual interpretation as an artist and later on as casting director, made her an expert in working solution-oriented while not letting go of the vision. She also worked on „the other side“ as a product manager; bridging brand communication goals with relevant, innovative methods. Empathic and intuitive, she understands quickly what a project needs and how that can be achieved. She now applies her creativity in production, finding unique solutions to fast-paced projects especially in digital formats.
Cell: +49 (0) 177 78 37 618 Mail: brechmann@department-frankfurt.com
ALEXANDRA SCHRÖER
As a long-time, passionate producer she is familiar with any kind of production process and budgetary requirements without losing sight of the creative aspect. As a certificated green consultant for film, she is able to analyze scripts, plan the implementation of ecological standards and can provide an accurate CO2 balance after the project has been completed. That also means helping you put measures in place to support sustainability and being in exchange with your ESG team.
Office: +49 (0) 177 31 422 93 Mail: schroeer@department-frankfurt.com
ISABELLA NNAJI
Began her career in the production office of a TV film. From there she went on to work on several productions in various formats in different positions in production and assistant directing. She included post producing when she came into the world of commercials. She is an alumni of the renowned Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, so financing, distribution and sales are part of her skills set as well. She is very analytic and will develop strategic plans to intricate productions with many stakeholders, making sure everything runs smoothly from start to finish.
Office: +49 (0) 69 2561 7370 Mail: nnaji@department-frankfurt.com