Annette Lober

Annette Lober is a Ger­man screen­writer whose epis­ode „Mike&Nisha“ for the pres­ti­gi­ous Ger­man crime format TATORT was nom­in­ated for the Rhein­gold Pub­likum­s­pre­is at the Fest­iv­al of Ger­man Film in Lud­wig­shafen 2025. The epis­ode show­cases her abil­ity to bring fresh per­spect­ives to Ger­many’s most endur­ing crime drama fran­chise. She recently worked as assist­ant to head­writer for the high-pro­file mini-series PAR­AL­LEL ME, pro­duced by Gaumont for Para­mount Plus, deep­en­ing her exper­i­ence for inter­na­tion­al seri­al storytelling. Annette’s writ­ing cred­its include two epis­odes for the ZDF Neo dram­edy series PUMPEN, as well as two epis­odes for both sea­sons of Ger­many’s instant fic­tion series LIEBE​.JET​ZT, with Sea­son 2 earn­ing a pres­ti­gi­ous Grimme Prize nom­in­a­tion. In 2019 her first 90 minutes TV Fea­ture WILDE ZEITEN was aired in ZDFs prime­time Sunday even­ing spot for ZDF Herzkino.

Annette’s cre­at­ive found­a­tion was built on a rich the­at­ric­al and per­form­ance back­ground. Fol­low­ing her high school gradu­ation, she received a schol­ar­ship to Robert Wilson’s cel­eb­rated Water­mill Cen­ter in New York, fol­lowed by form­at­ive exper­i­ences in dram­at­urgy and assist­ant dir­ect­ing at Ham­burg’s dis­tin­guished Thalia Theat­er. Shortly after her Act­ing Stud­ies at Zurich Uni­ver­sity of the Arts and Lon­don Academy of Music and Dra­mat­ic Arts she star­ted to work as script advisor on numer­ous European art­house pro­duc­tions provid­ing her with invalu­able insights into char­ac­ter devel­op­ment and dra­mat­ic struc­ture that now inform her dis­tinct­ive writ­ing style. She was a par­ti­cipant of Dre­hbuch­werkstatt Munich and Mel­bourne Dir­ect­ors Lab.

Annette’s soph­ist­ic­ated nar­rat­ive style bridges art­house sens­ib­il­it­ies with main­stream appeal.

Her char­ac­ter-driv­en storytelling is always in ser­vice of under­stand­ing human inter­ac­tions in this intric­ate story called life on earth.