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Ute Mattigkeit is the founder and Managing Director of gomie production, a company specializing in television and web production. For more than 10 years she worked in various management positions at ZDF (Second German Television – public broadcaster). Until 2020, most recently as executive editor for WISO – a weekly, renowned, award-winning primetime - TV magazine. In various ZDF projects, Ute Mattigkeit has also worked intensively on topics of digital transformation and the development of new digital storytelling approaches and formats with a user centric design.
Ute Mattigkeit also acts as a trainer for TV- and Multimedia Journalism - e.g. for “DW Academy” and the German Goethe-Institute. Ute also co-founded and acted as Managing Director of the Media Academy South Africa from 2009 till 2011.
Born in 1972, Ute Mattigkeit has been working in the media for over 25 years. After completing an MA in politics, history and economics at the University of Muenster (Germany), she went on to train as a journalist at a television production company in Cologne. Since then, she has worked for several public and private television stations, as well as print and online-magazines in Germany and internationally. As an executive producer, Ute was responsible for the launch and success of several television programs, for example nineandahalf, an award winning weekly news program, broadcasted on Germany’s first TV channel, ARD.
In 2004, Ute Mattigkeit began specializing in video journalism through training provided by German TV station Hessischer Rundfunk (ARD/HR). Since then she has been producing numerous documentaries and feature-stories in Europe, Afrika, Asia and the US. Ute Mattigkeit has been awarded several awards, such as the North American TV Award, the International Film Festival Award in Bangkok, the EMIL audience award and two nominations for the World Television Award in Canada.