Jana Burbach
Activity: Writer
Nationality: German
Lives in: Berlin, Germanyl
Writing languages: English, German
Genres: Drama, Dramedy, Crime, Thriller, Period
Agent:
Fabian Haslob, Players
Contact:
https://players.de; Lindsey Bender
CAA, https://www.caa.com
Born 1985 in Munich, Jana Burbach lives and works in Berlin as a freelance script writer. From 2004 to 2007, she completed a BA in Classics and English at the University of Oxford and from 2009 to 2011 an MA in Expanded Theatre at the Hochschule der Künste Bern. In theatre, she has worked as an assistant director, director, performer and dramaturg with artists including Thomas Ostermeier, Constanza Macras, Nurkan Erpulat, Quan Bui Ngoc, Samuel Schwarz and many others. Over the years, she received various artistic scholarships. From 2010 to 2013, Jana Burbach worked for 400asa as a dramaturg and writer. One of the projects from this time, “Der Polder”, a sci-fi transmedia project, was developed in a writers room, of which Jana Burbach was the showrunner. This work marked the transition to her work as a script writer, with a focus on working with a writers room. From 2013-14, she participated in the Drehbuchwerkstatt München and subsequently in Serial Eyes. Since then, Jana Burbach has been working as a freelance screenwriter in German and English, with a special focus on developing high quality television series with a writers room approach for both a national German audience and an international audience. She writes in German and English and also teaches workshops on the writers room model and serialized storytelling. She is dedicated to telling moving, entertaining and meaningful stories for an increasingly complex and diverse world.
2017 / Bad Banks / Staff writer
Banking thriller / LETTERBOX / ZDF, ARTE
2017 / Just Push Abuba / Co-creator
Comedy Web Series / LUPA FILM / ZDF Quantum
2017 / Die Heiland / Head-writer
Legal Dramedy / OLGAFILM / RBB, ARD
2020 / Breaking even / Staff writer
Family Drama / NEUE SUPER / ZDF Neo
2021 / Tribes of Europa / Staff writer
Dystopian Drama / WIEDEMANN & BERG / Netflix
2004-7/ Classics & English (BA) / UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2009-11 / Expanded Theatre (MA) / BERN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
2013-14 / Drehbuchwerkstatt München / HFF MUNICH
2014-15 / Serial Eyes / DFFB BERLIN