Anke Gadesmann initially trained as
an industrial business management assistant at the Frankfurt company,
Telenorma. She then went to the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf where
she completed a master's in media and romance studies. For the first three years
after graduation, she worked in the film and television production department
at the North Rhine-Westphalia film support foundation, Filmstiftung NRW. In
Munich, she later became deputy head of European and German funding for art
house film distribution. Anke Gadesman then spent eight years as a funding
consultant and in charge of public relations for MEDIA Antenne München. Since
2001, as an authorised signatory of collina filmproduktion, she shares
responsibility with management for the commercial duties of the company and the
co-ordination of productions.