Letí­cia Milano

Letí­cia Mil­ano is a journ­al­ist and author. In her first life, she was a white, edu­cated, middle-class Brazili­an woman who also worked as a theatre dir­ect­or. When she moved to Ger­many, she became a Woman of Col­our with her Lat­in Amer­ic­an her­it­age. She mainly writes series, radio plays and games. With the exposé “Wel­come in Germany“she won first prize in the TOP:Talente com­pet­i­tion at the Ber­linale 2016. In 2016/17 she was a schol­ar­ship hold­er at the Academy for Chil­dren’s Media with the
trans­me­dia pro­ject . In 2021 she received a devel­op­ment grant for the series “Der Riss” with her co-author Otana Thiede, she received devel­op­ment fund­ing from Filmför­der­ung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.