Torsten Zarges

Torsten Zarges is managing partner of Zarges|creative talent connection, a Cologne-based agency for content production, talent & literary management that he founded in 2004. Also, since 2013, he writes as a chief reporter for DWDL.de, Germany's leading website for television industry news and analysis. After starting out as a local reporter at »Westfälische Rundschau« in Dortmund/Germany, Torsten studied journalism and political sciences, followed by a television and radio traineeship at public broadcaster WDR. He then worked freelance on several WDR shows and, from 1998 to 2013, as a correspondent for media trade journal »kressreport«. Since 2004, Torsten is a regular jury member of Germany's most prestigious television award, »Grimme-Preis«. From 2012 to 2018, he has been the jury president of the German Radio Award.