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Grimme Award-nominated screenwriter for film, streaming & television.
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Grimme Award-nominated screenwriter for film, streaming & television.
Explore ProjectsMy latest feature film — hitting theaters on May 14th, 2026. A story that makes you laugh and cry, just like real life.
Watch TrailerFrom my own Amazon Prime series to feature films — and always with humor. Because humor is the best defense against the madness we can't do anything about.
6-part romantic comedy for ZDF. Starring Palina Rojinski, Helgi Schmid, August Wittgenstein, Caro Cult, Benno Fürmann, Jörg Schüttauf and more. Co-writer: Elena Hell. Director: Tarek Roehlinger. Streaming on ZDF Mediathek from April 27, 2026.
Creator & Head Writer. 8 episodes. Moritz Bleibtreu as an opinionated Berlin service technician who has to find common ground with his son. Debuted at #1 in Germany — nominated for the Grimme Award 2025.
My latest feature film. Director: David Dietl. Produced by Wiedemann & Berg. In cinemas May 2026.
6-part comedy series for BR and ORF. Director: Franz X. Bogner. Starring Anne Schäfer and Stephan Zinner. Most successful series premiere on BR in decades. Also on Disney+.
Concept & screenplay. Starring Milan Peschel, Sebastian Bezzel, Johanna Wokalek, Rick Kavanian, Gisela Schneeberger and more. Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller.
I've been a pizza delivery guy, a shelf stocker, and I tried being a teacher — even though I once got expelled from school.
I sold TVs, explained mobile phone plans, delivered washing machines, and scanned roughly 2,000 pages of BMW HR documents. I studied Communication Science at LMU Munich, worked in brand management at BMW MINI, and in corporate communications at Siemens.
I founded two companies, hired people, let people go, and nearly went bankrupt. Twice. I handed out flyers in pedestrian zones and sold window cleaner in shopping malls.
I was a Creative Director at Jung von Matt in Hamburg, developing global TV spots, voicing Bavarian radio ads, and coming up with headlines for women's underwear. Along the way, I won awards in Cannes, New York, and Rosenheim.
I've given talks to audiences of three and audiences of three hundred. As an undersized goalkeeper, I played for TSV Ebersberg and TSV 1860 Munich — and I still catch falling jam sandwiches to this day.
Since 2018, I've been lucky enough to make a living writing screenplays — and I'm the happiest person in the world. First at the DrehbuchWerkstatt München on a scholarship, now for cinema, streaming, and television. My favorite thing to write? Comedies that make you laugh and cry. Just like life, right?
Back at my old stomping ground! At HFF Munich, I tell film students in my workshop what neuroscience today knows about developing ideas — and how to apply this knowledge concretely to screenwriting.
"Humor is the best defense against the madness we can't do anything about."
Humor saves. At family gatherings. At parent-teacher conferences. Or when you're on the train. That's why humor must always be allowed to do anything. Like a pressure relief valve for an entire society.
Humor can be the language of the unspeakable, maybe it even has to be: humor must cross boundaries to make those boundaries visible.
We live in turbulent times. In a hectic, sometimes oversensitive era. We're becoming aware of many things for the first time, and that's good. But it gets unfunny when you take everything way too seriously.
I think it would be nice and healthy if in such serious times we didn't take everything quite so seriously and laughed together more. Preferably at ourselves. It can just be for today.
Blickpunkt:Film — Frank Heine, 05/29/2024
(Article in German) Read InterviewOver 50 national and international awards for campaigns including BMW, Ikea and Dove. Most recently as Creative Director at Jung von Matt, Hamburg.
