Marie Reiners

Marie Reiners is a German screenwriter and author, as well as the creator of the TV series and .

Career Reiners attended the University of Cologne from 1990, where classmate Hella Kemper encouraged her to work as a writer. During her undergraduate degree, Reiners was credited writer for three shows, including Alles Nichts Oder?!. Reiners then wrote for various shows and created the successful satirical crime series about a police station in the Eifel region.

Reiners first novel, Frauen, die Bärbel heißen (Women called Bärbel), was published in 2019 and tells the story of a 54-year-old taxidermist.

Filmography Year Title Number of episodes Notes 1990–1992 Alles Nichts Oder?! 9 1992 Hilde's Wilde Horror Show Co-writer 1995 Geld oder Liebe 1 1997 Rendezvous des Todes Television film 1998 Mobbing Girls 5 1996–2001 Lukas 58 2001–2005 Der Ermittler 4 2002 Der kleine Mönch 6 2004 Die Sitte / Vice Squad 1 2005 Unsolved 1 2005 2 2008–2010 13 Creator and writer 2011 Prime Time Crime Television film 2012–2020 19 2017–2021 Um Himmels Willen 13

Publications Frauen, die Bärbel heißen (2019, S. Fischer Verlag)