SERIAL EYES

Daniela Baumgärtl

Germany

Daniela Baumgärtl was born in 1984 in Ger­many as a work­ing class kid, and is a writer for TV series and fea­ture films. She has worked for Net­flix, Sky, Dis­ney, ARD, ZDF, ORF and many oth­ers, and her films were screened at fest­ivals like Ber­lin Inter­na­tion­al Film Fest­iv­al and won prizes like “First Steps Award”.

After study­ing at the theatre, film and media depart­ment of Vienna Uni­ver­sity, Daniela stud­ied screen­writ­ing at the film school „HFF Kon­rad Wolf“ in Pots­dam-Babels­berg from 2007 to 2012. In 2014/15, she was par­ti­cipant of “Seri­al Eyes”.

Daniela is hold­er of artists-in-res­id­ence-schol­ar­ships from „Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf“ 2014 and „Künstlerhaus Lukas“ Ahren­shoop 2015, both in the field of lit­er­at­ure. Since 2022, she is a lec­turer at the Eureka Series writers cam­pus by Series Mania in Lille.

Daniela is liv­ing in Ber­lin, Ger­many. Her work­ing lan­guages are Ger­man and English.

She is rep­res­en­ted by Homebase agency: www​.agen​turhomebase​.de

Pro­jects:

2024 / CITY OF NIGHT / epis­ode writer + writers room

TV series / Amuse­ment Park / Dis­ney Plus

Dir­ect­or: Phil­ipp Kadelbach

2024 / WEL­COME HOME, BABY / co-writer

Fea­ture / Lotus Film, Sen­at­or Film / ORF, ZDF

Dir­ect­or: Andreas Prochaska

2024 / TATORT STILLE NACHT / co-writer

Fea­ture / Bre­media / ARD, Radio Bremen

Dir­ect­or: Sebasti­an Ko

2023 / THE FLOOD / co-writer

TV fea­ture / Stu­dio Hamburg/​ ARD, ORF

Dir­ect­or: Andreas Prochaska

2023/ DRIFT / epis­ode writer + writers room

TV series/​ actionsconcept/​ SKY

Dir­ect­or: Tim Trachte

2021 / KITZ / epis­ode writer + writers room
TV Series / Odeon Fic­tion / Netflix

Dir­ect­or: Maurice Hüb­n­er, Lea Becker

2017 / THE SWAL­LOW / co-writer
fea­ture / Frame Film / SRF Sch­weizer Radio und Fernsehen

Dir­ect­or: Mano Khalil

2015 / MARRY ME / co-writer
fea­ture / Wüste Film / ZDF/ arte

Dir­ect­or: Nee­le­sha Barthel

2012 / ENEMIES IN LOVE / co-writer
docu-fic­tion / Dschoint Vents­chr / SRF Sch­weizer Radio und Fernsehen

Dir­ect­or: Wern­er Schweizer

2012 / KILLING ALL THE FLIES / co-writer
TV Series / UFA / FA Lud­wigs­burg / ProSiebenSat.1

Dir­ect­or: Hanna Maria Heidrich