Petra Lüschow

After studying theater, film and literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Vienna, Petra Lüschow studied script writing and dramaturgy at the College of Film and Television Potsdam from 1996 to 2001. Her first movie was "Going Private (2006)". In 2006, the film had its world premiere at the "Berlinale Panorama" with Michael Neuenschwander, Susanne Maria Wrage and Bettina Stucky in leading roles, winning international awards. "Going Private (2006)" is an intense chamber play showing how the greed of the New Economy affects private relationships. In 2008 she wrote the cinema adaptation of the bestseller "Tannöd", in which Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch played the leading roles. Among her work as a writer are scripts for television series (including "Tatort") and films such as the comedy "The Hamster" with Roeland Wiesnekker. In 2010 she made her debut as a director with the short film comedy "The Little Nazi (2010)", for which she also wrote the screenplay. At the focus of the black comedy starring Steffi Kühnert, Oliver Stokowski and Christine Schorn in the leading roles is the bigoted confrontation of many Germans with the Nazi past of their family. The film was screened at more than one hundred festivals worldwide and won numerous international jury and audience awards, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award and the Best Comedy Award at the International Short Film Festival "Heart of Gold" in Melbourne. In 2018, her feature film debut "That's it, Helmut" which she wrote and directed, will be released.