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Mareike Almedom

Screenwriter

Mareike was born in Berlin and lives in her home town – being an author and a mother, playing drums and loving to cook and go dancing. One would notice her long, bright green fingernails and that she can make you laugh.

Once she hitchhiked through Central America rather than finishing High School. Back home she became an operation nurse. She ran a café bar and wrote poems and a novel. Then she studied screenplay writing and dramaturgy at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (BA 2018).

Who she was and is certainly influences her perspective on our world. But as an author it´s not that important to her. What matters to her is who she wants to be…

She wants to be a 13 year old girl whose desires are greater than life. She wants to be a family man who, through a brief encounter, completely questions his previous goals and needs. She wants to be a grandmother who is loved but no longer needed and who is preparing to give up her place in the world again. She wants  to have to react to looks because of her dark skin color, she wants to cling  angrily to her fixed habits, she wants to live as a woman although biologically she is a man, she wants to be on the run, she wants to be addicted to online dating matches, she wants to choke herself in secret, she wants to be active in climate protection out of full conviction and she wants to drive an inappropriately fat, shiny car.

She wants to give all these people and many others a place in her stories and thereby create a common ground, because her goal is, that we become more interested in each other, look and listen openly and in the best case even try a smile.

© photo: Jan Mayntz

DRUCK - Ismail Staffel 7 | headauthor: Mareike Almedom
FREUNDE DER WEISHEIT | screenwriter: Mareike Almedom
FREUNDE DER WEISHEIT | screenwriter: Mareike Almedom
BERLINER BEAT | screenplay & director: Mareike Almedom
AVEC PLAISIR | screenwriter: Mareike Almedom

Filmographie

2024

MELEK UND IHRE TOTEN
Series | madefor Film
(screenwriter with Bahar Bektas and Jackie Gillies, in development)

GANGS OF BERLIN
Series | neue super
(Screenwriter with Bahar Bektas, in development)

2022
DRUCK – MAILIN, Season 8
series season | Bantry Bay | FUNK ARD/ZDF online
(head author, episode 1 and 8)

ROSENKRIEG & FRIEDEN
series development | Studio Zentral | ZDF
(co-author episode 1 and 2)

2021

DRUCK – ISMAIL, Season 7
series season | Bantry Bay | FUNK ARD/ZDF online
(head author season 7, screenwriter episode 61 and 70, co-writer episode 75 and 77)

2020

QUEENZ
feature film | X-Filme Creative Pool
(screenwriter, in development)

DER PARK
Series | fiction | Panthertainment
(writers’ room member, in development)

TAMARA
feature film | Jost Hering Filme | ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel
(co-writer)

ISKIOS
3D music video | Film University Babelsberg
(script, development)

ROMY INFERNALE
short film | fiction | 13‘ | Filmuniversität Babelsberg
(screenwriter, director)

2019

VERBRECHEN KENNT KEINE GRENZE
TV series/fiction | UFA Fiction GmbH | RTL
(Headwriter)

DEADLINES (WT)
TV/Web-series/fiction | Turbokultur | ZDF
(Writers’ room)

LUCILIA – DIE GOLDFLIEGE
short film | fiction | 18‘ | Film University Babelsberg
(screenwriter, director)

2018

FREUNDE DER WEISHEIT
short fiction | Film University Babelsberg
(screenwriter)

AVEC PLAISIR
short fiction/musical | Film University Babelsberg
(screenwriter)

2017

BERLINER BEAT
experimental documentary-fiction | Film University Babelsberg | RBB
(screenwriter, director)

2016

JE SUIS JESUS
short film | fiction | 9‘ | Film University Babelsberg
(screenwriter, director)

DIE BILDER VON WIEBKE DREYER
short film | documentary | 11‘ | Almeding Produktionen
(screenwriter, director)

FREUNDINNEN
short film | fiction | 5‘ | Film University Babelsberg
(screenwriter)

Other activities

2020 – Beratung und Assistenz Drehbuchentwicklung – Shanghai Film Academy
2021 – Jurymitglied Internationaler Wettbewerb – 16. up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover
2023 – Dozentin für Drehbuchentwicklung – Filmarche e.V.

Education

2020/21 Winterclass Serial Writing and Producing – Erich-Pommer-Institut (EPI) und Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
2022 – MA Drehbuch/Dramaturgie  – Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
BA 2018 – Screenplay and Dramaturgy
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Awards

Förderpreis für Künstlerische Forschung 2018
Institut für Künstlerische Forschung

BERLINER BEAT
14. Achtung!Berlin Festival – Wettbewerb
OpenEyes Festival Marburg – Wettbewerb
Film Plus Köln 2018 – Wettbewerb

FREUNDE DER WEISHEIT
Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2018 – Wettbewerb
and others

AVEC PLAISIR
Camgaroo Award 2019 (won in category: short emotions)
Julien Dubuque Festival 2020
and others

 

Berliner Beat - Trailer