Charlie WOEBCKEN

Carl “Charlie” Woebcken is President/CEO of Studio Babelsberg AG and Managing Director of the production services subsidiary Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures as well as Babelsberg Film. The famous studio Babelsberg, founded in 1912, is the world's oldest large-scale studio complex and one of Europe's leading service providers for feature films and TV productions. Christoph Fisser acquired Studio Babelsberg together with his business associate and present CEO Charlie Woebken in July 2004 from the French media group VIVENDI.

His recent producer credits include George Clooney’s Monuments Men, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Anthony & Joe Russo’s Captain America: Civil War and the fifth season of the high-end TV series Homeland.

Among other films, Chrarlie Woebcken co-produced V for Vendetta, Casino Royale, The Counterfeiters, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, Flame & Citron, Speed Racer, Valkyrie, Stephen Daldry's The Reader, The International, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, Eddie the Eagle, The Three Musketeers, Hanna, Unknown, The Book Thief, Chicken with Plum and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Woebcken's further credits as Associate and Executive Producer include Men & Chicken, The Voices, In Darkness, Aeon Flux and Black Book as well as producer credit for the upcoming remake of the German DEFA classic Das kalte Herz. He is currently co-producing the first season of the EPIX Original Series Berlin Station as well as other international productions such as Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness and Steven Quale's The Lake, starring J.K. Simmons. 

Before his appointment in Babelsberg, Charlie Woebcken worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and subsequently in the menegement board of the Roland Berger & Partner consultancy. He served as Vice President of the independent animation production company TV Loonland AG/Munich and as CEO of the former Sony Music subsidiary Sunbow Entertainment in New York City. As head of programming at Berlin Animation Film GmbH (BAF), he also acted as producer on a range of animation projects, including the CGI feature film Happily N'Ever After.