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), and two episodes of the police procedural television series ''

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Selected filmography

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'' – "Blutiger Asphalt" (1995, TV series episode) * ''

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'' (1998) * ''Tatort'' – "Kleine Diebe" (2000, TV series episode) * ''

'' (2005, TV film) * ''Wild Chicks'' (2006) * ''Wild Chicks in Love'' (2007) * ''The Wild Chicks and Life'' (2009) * ''Das Quartett'' (2019–22, four episodes of TV series)

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* Living people Film directors from Hamburg German television directors German women film directors German-language film directors German women screenwriters German screenwriters 1953 births Women television directors {{Germany-film-director-stub