BIO

lives in Berlin and works as a stand-up comedian and writer

 

currently writer for Late Nite Show “Shapira! Shapira!” on ZDF Neo (sketch and stand-up)

2018 development of tv comedy concepts for Turbokultur, ZDF and others

2017 TV bible and pilot “Rough” for “Old House Entertainment”

2015 - 2016   TV series "Berlin Station" (PTV, Anonymous Content, EPIX, Babelsberg)                           
                      Writer's assistant & assistant to showrunner Bradford Winters, German translator

2014, 2008    DOC Leipzig Film Fest, host, coordination of screenings

2013 - 15        Berliner Studio, "Method Acting" community under Prodromos Antoniadis

2012 - 14         Script consultant for SCHOLARscript, Millbrook Pictures, Berlin

since 2013      Co-founder and host of the Diary Slam Berlin

2008 – 2011    Screenwriting degree, DFFB, Berlin

2006                Translation certification for English, Regionalschulamt Leipzig

2006 + 2008   Lecturer at the Institute for American Studies, Leipzig (Literature / Cultural Studies)

1999 – 2005    M.A. at the University of Leipzig and Granada (English + Hispanic Studies)

1998 – 1999    Gap year in the UK (youth work in churches)

1981 – 1986     Sierra Leone, West Africa

 

publications: Kritzeltagebuch, "Ich glaub ich bin jetzt mit Nils zusammen", Generation Credo

translations: Wütende Gespräche mit Gott, Getting into Heaven - and Out Again, Scenario 8 - Film Almanach,

*born in Hamburg, Germany