Born in
Quedlinburg, the daughter of a journalist, Ziegler briefly studied law at the
Free University of Berlin, before dropping her studies to work at the
Sender Freies Berlin as a production assistant. Germany's first female film producer, she started her own independent company Ziegler Films in 1973. She produced about 500 works between cinema and television, including the
Golden Lion winner film
A Year of the Quiet Sun by
Krzysztof Zanussi, as well as works by
Volker Schlöndorff,
Andrzej Wajda,
Ulrich Schamoni and her life-partner
Wolf Gremm. a Lifetime , and the
Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. In 2006, her career was the subject of a retrospective at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York. ==See also==