Lucia Mann is a screenwriter, playwright, and novelist from Berlin. She has written two feature film movies for the “Herzkino” series (ZDF) and is now writing a romantic comedy which would break new ground in contemporary German media by featuring a female Jewish protagonist. Her play, “The Astronaut” debuted in New York in June of 2023; it featured the Grimme-Preis-winning actor August Zirner and was co-directed by Arnon Grunberg (Blue Mondays, Tirza, The Jewish Messiah). Born and raised in Berlin, Lucia also has close ties to the Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Filmfestival in Poland and has lived in Israel, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. She is currently working on a novel that explores a major antisemitism scandal in the German feuilleton.