Fresh and community-based: Serienwerk takes up highly topical issues and ventures on narrative experiments. Our themes are meant to touch and move – with courage, relevance, and originality. We develop and produce domestic and international series for TV channels, streaming platforms, and video portals, both in-house as well as for co-productions.
More than five people in a group usually develop a shepherd consciousness. Not Nike and Len. They are „good with people“. The house community in Moabit, above whose doorway could stand „exemplarily diverse living in Berlin“, likes to knock on the apartment door of the unequal couple when a lemon is missing or a roll of toilet paper. Although the two of them also find themselves entangled in their search for themselves, mainly in sexual desires, they have this special alpha power. What can be wrong with wanting to help people? Their coaching works. Well, they don’t do it on a voluntary basis and they let themselves be seduced a little by the success… but in the end they are only trying to help.
Anna Stieblich
Anna Stieblich was born in Bremen and graduated as an actress at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover. She has played at several German and Swiss theatres, has been producing her own off-theatre productions for many years and has also become well-known with various television productions over the last ten years (among others: „Türkisch für Anfänger“, „Soko Leipzig“, „Der Hodscha und die Piepenkötter“).
Lena Lange, 33, actress with poor success, rents herself out to private individuals on an hourly basis. Under the pseudonym Rita she slips into various roles. Depending on the customer’s wishes, Rita plays the loving daughter for a childless woman or appears as a youth friend with a senior for a coffee. What begins as a lucrative business model develops into a dangerous trip.
Anita Augustin
You want the blackest sense of humour outside the British Isles? Ask Anita Augustin! Her style is hilarious, clever and bitterly evil. She is co-author of our identity thriller series „Rent an Actor“ and is also responsible for black intelligence in several other series.
Anita Augustin is a freelance dramaturge, author of many plays as well as of two novels and moreover a trained bartender.
Katarina Schröter
Katarina Schröter has a weakness for the strange, the subtle, the in-between. Whether series, film or play, Katarina Schröter writes stories that will certainly not let you go. For Serienwerk she is the creative director and co-author of „Rent an Actor“.
Katarina Schröter directs, plays and writes for theatre and film.
Our moderators and two guests – 66, 36 and 16 years old – have dinner in a private and approachable atmosphere and talk about what it means to be a woman or a man. In our episodes we deal with various – even controversial and tabooed – topics that are far too rarely discussed in public in such a constellation. For instance, we will discuss gender and sex, sexuality and identity, feminism and freedom, the body, old age and death. We are dealing with oppression, men and non-binary logic. And, of course, love and the courage to stand by oneself. We want to celebrate how liberating it can be to break through the boundaries of shame and ask the really interesting questions – regardless of generation.
Sookee
There are probably much easier areas to discuss sexism and lack of gender and sexual diversity than the German hip hop scene. Sookee does it anyway – and not just since yesterday. Since 2003, Sookee has been on the road as a rapper, talking about left-wing politics and queer feminism instead of wallowing in rigid role models and capitalist status symbols. Patriarchal structures can be found everywhere, but they are particularly evident in rap. With her new album „Mortem & Makeup“ she now consciously wants to address people outside the left filter bubble. Get inside the heads of those who are otherwise less concerned about social injustice. Reach those who didn’t want to listen so far.
Kerstin Polte
Kerstin Polte wants to arouse addiction with her series; she loves weird, humorous, contradictory characters and complex storytelling. Kerstin Polte is a director, scriptwriter, producer, founder and creative head of the Serienwerk. She completed her film training in Canada, Karlsruhe and Zurich. After her award-winning documentary film „Kein Zickenfox“, her feature film „Wer hat eigentlich die Liebe erfinden?“ („Who actually invented love?“), a poetic and humorous women’s road movie with Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, Sabine Timoteo, came to the cinemas last year. With this film she won the Award of the German Film Critics, an award at the Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen and received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Director.
After more than 30 years, Caroline Jaspers returns to her birthplace to bury her mother. Thereby she encounters inconsistencies concerning her past and that of her supposedly dead brother. In addition, THE BLACK MOUNTAIN – a Soviet military base reconquered largely by nature after the fall of communism – begins to spit out buried corpses and lost villagers.
When a blood-stained 12-year-old boy appears who claims to be Caroline’s big brother, she realizes that not everything seems to be right in Riebenow…
Kaspar Dornfeld
When two chairs are standing in a room, Kaspar Dornfeld enthusiastically sits in between. Together with László Kish, he develops series concepts for the Serienwerk beyond everyday situations. He is a film director, has run a publishing house and has been writing scripts, plays and prose himself for many years.
László I. Kish
Bizarre figures and stories far removed from everyday life – this is probably the best way to describe the concepts from László Kish’s pen. Together with Kaspar Dornfeld, he writes own concepts and scripts, but both are also a safe bank when it comes to giving existing concepts the right final touch.
László Kish is also an actor and coach for communication and performance.
„Football is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more serious.“
A talented, charming and chaotic fourth league team is bought by a rich sponsor and now has to fight its way up to the next league with a lot of energy, passion and no clue.
Anika Soisson
Born 1986 in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt. In 2008 she began her studies at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, which she completed at the end of 2012 with a grade of 1.0 in the series department (screenplay and producing). In 2014 she won the German Computer Game Award for her 2D Point & Click Adventure „The Inner World“.
Directly after her studies, she attracted attention with the serial pilot „Woodcock“, which ran at several festivals. She now works as a screenwriter for various production companies such as Ufa Fiction, Ziegler Film and Saxonia Media. There she also wrote the TV movie „Wir sind die Rosinskis“. She also specialized in online content, augmented and virtual reality and games.
