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    Storytelle depicts stories from a female perspective to a broad audience. In our films and series we like to draw attention to women in society who find themselves in different life situations – always from a particular point of view. These perspectives can be sometimes cheerful, sometimes mystic, sometimes bizarre, sometimes complicated, sometimes sad, sometimes politically significant, sometimes encouraging, sometimes inspiring or sometimes just make you laugh.
    Storytelle is a new label belonging to the TELLUX group and it is located at the ALPHA Entertainment offices in Cologne.

  • Who we are

    Wiebke Mercier und Carolin Engstfeld

    Wiebke and Carolin met in a shared flat in Berlin. What a coincidence: Not only are they both from Cologne, but they both just started out in the film and television industry. Carolin as a student at the Babelsberg Film University and Wiebke with her first job at a production company. After years together in Torstraße, they both drifted into different professions and cities: Wiebke did her Master of Producing in England, followed by Serial Eyes at the dffb and built up the Drama Series Days at the EFM of the Berlinale. Carolin learned how broadcasters tick as a consultant to the managing director at TELE 5 and headed the internal think tank there. After years they met again in Cologne: Wiebke worked as a producer at Sony Film- and TV Production, where she produced series such as LIFELINES (RTL), HELDT (ZDF) and most recently GEFÄHRLICHE NÄHE (TVnow). Carolin headed the development department at Splendid Studios and developed various documentary formats and expanded the fiction division. This was followed by the Media X Change Masterclass in showrunning in LA. Since summer 2021, the two are running the storytelle production label..
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    EXPECTING

    6-Part Instant Fiction Series for ZDFneo

    Drama Miniseries

    Regie: Esther Rauch

    Drehbücher: Esther Rauch und Anneke Janssen

    EXPECTING is the story of Lena, a mother of ayoung daughter who is unintentionally pregnant again. Although the initial situation seems ideal, Lena does not want to become a mother again – she has other plans and goals for the next stage of her life. She quickly realizes that she does not want to keep the unborn child. With the intention of terminating her pregnancy early, Lena embarks on her most difficult path ever. The lead roles are played by Laura Berlin as Lena, Ludwig Trepte as her boyfriend Felix and Luise von Finckh as her sister Tina.

  • Projects

  • That's what we're working on

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    520 DAYS

    Movie
    Writer: Anita Hauch

    Marina is the only woman in a spacesimulation and was kissed against her will by a male crew member. Now she has to stand up for her feelings, which she is becoming increasingly unsure of - not least due to the massive group pressure from the men. Will the experiment
    fail because of the incident?

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    DOITSCHA

    Movie
    Writers: Ester Amrami, Momme Peters
    Novel: Adriana Altaras

    Adriana navigates her German-Jewishfamily as good as she can through puberty and anti-semitism in present-day Berlin until she is invited to hold the speech for the 9th of November in Paulskirche. In an attempt to do justice to everything and everyone, she wears herself and her family out, because after October 7th, 2022, nothing will be as before.

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    F.A.U.S.T

    Series
    Creator: Esther Rauch, Barbara Albert

    Nika leads a quiet life in the countryside, juggling her job, sports and her six-year-old son Simon. When she applies for a passport for Simon, her life changes in an instant. A story about a mother fighting for her child, women fighting for survival and a society fighting for freedom.

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    GERMAN LEGENDS

    DIE HEXE VOM BLOCKSBERG

    Series
    Creator: Benjamin Gutsche
    Writers: Sebastian Bleyl, Burkhardt Wunderlich

    Paula's little daughter is kidnappedand immediately turns up in the closed psychiatric ward where her father has been living since he brutally murdered several women in their hometown. For Paula, a journey into her repressed past begins, as does a race against time to save her family.

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    IN THE TREE

    Movie
    Writers: Anja Hilling, Simona Sabato

    When Sandrine's son Adrian no longerhas the emotional capacity to fight against the clearing of his favorite tree, she herself, out of helplessness, occupies the tree to make a difference and save her son.

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    KIDNEY TRIANGLE

    Series
    Creator: Elena Lyubarskaya

    When Ayla's husband refuses to donatea kidney to save her life, she is forced to question marriage and her entire life, especially when an unexpected love interest offers to become her donor.

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    AFTER THE FLOOD

    Series
    Creator: Christina Sabrowsky

    After a flood, people pleaser Kathabecomes the leader of her home village instead of her traumatized husband. With the help of her sister Elisa, who is reported to be missing, she makes a big discovery with serious consequences. To save the village, Katha must turn against those closest to her and clings to her power with increasingly radical
    means.

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    MACHINES

    Movie
    Writers: Laurent Mercier, Anthony Salvatori

    When three female factory workers witness the sudden death of their boss, they decide to risk everything to change their lives.

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    SEX IN ARABIC

    Series
    Headwriter: Mahnas Sarwari
    Writers: Amani Alsaied, Alexander El Ksouri, Fabian Wallenfels, Shary Osman, Kirsten Loose

    Nour, an aspiring politicaljournalist on the verge of her breakthrough, catapults herself into the offside
    with a faux pas during a TV interview and is ordered to write a column about her sex life as an Arab woman in Germany. What begins as a quota-diversity-lifestyle punishment not only develops into a career peek for Nour but also allows her to suddenly embrace aspects of her life that she has previously avoided: her identity and love.

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    SHISHALICIOUS

    Series
    Creator: Shary Osman
    Writer: Swenja Ingwersen, Shary Osman

    Threefriends with Turkish and Arab backgrounds break away from their familiar environment and open a shisha bar together, which they can only run by getting creative and reinventing themselves and their cultural identity.

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    THE WAY YOU KNOW ME

    Miniseries & Movie
    Autorinnen: Linda Brieda, Kirsten Loose
    Novel: Anika Landsteiner

    Desperate to find out more about the sudden death ofher sister Marie, Karla travels from her hometown in the German countryside to New York to clear out her sister’s apartment - but she’s unable to say goodbye. Instead, she is wearing Marie’s clothes, sleeps with her one-night stand and dives ever deeper into her sister’s life until she comes across disturbing photos of the neighbours, which cast Marie in a whole different light.

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    TOYZ

    Series
    Creator: Vera Zimmermann
    Writers: Evi Prince, Vera Zimmermann

    Rosa, Samira, Helena and Maja, akaTOYZ, are trying to get attention in their city's male-dominated graffiti scene. But while they are becoming more and more famous as a crew, they have to realize that it's not about being better than boys but about staying true to yourself and taming your own dark sides.

  • Contact Us

    Please feel free to send us a message.

    storytelle
    c/o Alpha Entertainment Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH
    Oberländer Ufer 174
    D – 50968 Köln
    +49 (221) 952903 – 10
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