Drehbuchklausur

Frederik Busch is a media artist and author from Hamburg. He grew up in a boarding school in the Black Forest, Germany and in the southern United States and studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts, and media art at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. Frederik Busch’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in France, Greece, Norway, Korea, Belgium and Germany. His book “German Business Plants” (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) was awarded with Silver at the German Photobook Prize. Furthermore, Busch’s documentary works (since 2003) received great international media coverage and were published in numerous online and print media, including the New York Times (USA ), the British Journal of Photography (UK), FAZ (DE), ZEIT (D), Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Der Greif, brand.eins, Spiegel Online, Monopol, VICE, BBC and ARD. His work won the artistic photo journalism award by the Abisag Tüllmann. His reportage “Die Ausputzerin” published in cooperation with the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine won the German Journalism Prize DJP in 2011 and the German Journalism Prize Emma in 2012.

Born in Wuppertal, Germany. Julia Penner studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and then debuted as an actress at the Schauspielfrankfurt. From 2012-2016 Julia studied screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Her short films ran in Cannes, Hof and Montreal. She developed her graduation book with director Christian Schwochow. In addition to her degree at dffb, Julia was selected for the international continuing education program for serial authors “Serial Eyes”. Her resulting series “Vaterland” will be further developed with the Danish television DR. Julia is co-founder of the writing collective Q3. From 2018 to 2019, Julia worked with the authors of the collective on the youth series “Druck”, where she served as head writer for season 3 and shared the head authorship in season 4 with her colleague Sandra Stöckmann. Julia is represented by the agency Players.

In 2016 Mariana Mo Jäger completed her studies in Directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with her graduation film “„Nordstadt, was los?“. The film was funded by the Film and Media Foundation NRW. She also completed a training in media design for images and sound. With her part-time job as a caster and assistant director she could on the one hand, earn the necessary money for the development for her next films and on the other hand, got to know influential directors and authors like Axel Ranisch, Aron Lehmann, Janna Nandzik and Marc Rensing.

When Ruth studied Theater and Film at the University of Vienna she started to develop screenplays and stage plays for the first time. To get engaged in film business she began to work in the production department. Over the next few years Ruth mainly worked on commercials, music videos and short movies. She worked her way up to production management and junior producer. In 2011 she moved to Berlin founding her own production company for feature film. In most of her productions she was closely involved in the development. But over the years she began to be more drawn to writing than to producing and picked up writing her own screenplays again. To advance her skills as a professional writer she applied for the UCLA screen-writing program, graduating in June 2017. A year later David Auner’s (AAC) AFI-thesis film „THE ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBER“ should become her screen debut writing-wise. Today she works as a screenwriter under her label SCREEN POETRY ENTERTAINMENT, based in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles.