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 The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

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

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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

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Filmography

Publications

* ''Frauen, die Bärbel heißen'' (2019,

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reikers, Marie Living people German screenwriters German women screenwriters People from Mönchengladbach 21st-century German women Year of birth missing (living people) University of Cologne alumni