Jürgen Ellinghaus was born in Germany in 1956. After studies of law and political science in West Berlin and Paris, he worked as a freelance radio journalist, documentary author and producer mainly for German and French public radio broadcasters. From 1995 to 2004, he worked as a program manager for both public and private documentary broadcasting TV channels in France and Germany. Since 2004, he has been an independent documentary filmmaker.
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