After his studies at Filmuniversity Babelsberg Timo worked as a writer for several TV shows and sat in Germany’s first primetime writers’ room for the crime show UNSCHULDIG. As script consultant he coached many feature films, documentaries and TV series. Timo is a development producer at UFA Fiction and currently involved in the development of several series (e.g. DISKO 76, CHARITE).
Timo is substitute professor for serial storytelling at Filmuniversity Babelsberg, where he is furthermore head of studies of the “Winterclass Serial Writing and Producing”, a graduate level workshop program focusing on high-end drama.
Together with Katrin Merkel Timo published “DER GERMAN ROOM” in fall 2021, a handbook/manual about writers’ room structures and methods in the German TV market.