WRITER
A graduate of the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University in dramaturgy and screenwriting, Elke Rössler previously studied Slavic and German studies and worked as an actress in Switzerland. Her first short feature film “Lotte Primaballerina,” was screened at numerous festivals and won the Grand Prize of the New York International Children's Film Festival in 2001, among other awards.
The comedy “Nachbarinnen,” co-starring Dagmar Manzel and directed by Franziska Meletzky, with whom Rössler has collaborated several times, screened in 2004 at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, the World Film Festival Montreal/Canada, and was nominated for the First Steps Award.
Rössler’s second film together with Meletzky, the tragicomedy “Frei nach Plan” with Corinna Harfouch, Dagmar Manzel and Kirsten Block, received the Audience Award at the Filmkunstmesse Leipzig in 2007 and was named Best Film at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Rössler also worked with director Robert Thalheim on the feature film “Westwind” and wrote the script for “Das zweite Leben” by Florian Gärtner.
In 2017, she successfully ventured into crime fiction for the first time. Together with director Jakob Ziemnicki, Rössler wrote the screenplay for Berlin's “Polizeiruf 110 – Das Beste für mein Kind.”
Still, in her writing, Rössler focuses largely on comedic stories. In 2018, she worked together with the author Simon Rost to conceive and write the successful ZDF series “Ella Schön,” starring Annette Frier. Rössler and Rost have written all of the episode scripts for this popular program, since its premiere in 2018 through to today.
Elke Rössler is represented by Katrin Näher.