Sabine Steyer-Violet Screenwriter and Creative Producer
Filmography
Die Geschützten Männer
Dramaturg
Cinema Company Filmgalerie 451 Director Irene von Alberti
ELDORADO KADEWE
Screenplay with Julia von Heinz, John Quester, Oskar Sulowski
TV Mini-series Company Constantin Television, UFA Fiction Director Julia von Heinz Broadcaster ARD, Degeto, rbb
ANIMA DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS
Script Consultant
Documentary Company Flare Film Director Uli Decker Distributer Farbfilm Verleih
UNORTHODOX
Creative Producer & Script Consultant
TV Series Company Real Film Creator Anna Winger Director Maria Schrader Broadcaster Netflix
ANDERE ELTERN
Headwriter
TV Series Company Eitelsonnenschein Director Lutz Heineking Jr. Broadcaster TNT
VON BIENEN UND BLUMEN
Script Consultant
Documentary Company Detailfilm, Tohuwabohu Director Lola Randl Distributor Zorro Film
CULPA – NIEMAND IST OHNE SCHULD
Writers Room
TV Series Company readymade films Director Jano Ben Chaabane Broadcaster 13th Street
BLOCHIN – DIE LEBENDEN UND DIE TOTEN
Producer
TV Series Company Real Film Director Matthias Glasner Broadcaster ZDF
URBAN KINGDOMS
Writer and Director
Short Documentary / German contestant for the worldwide Siemens CityStories project by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim Company Siemens
END OF RED OCTOBER
Producer
TV Documentary Company Context TV Director Carl Gierstorfer, Colette Beaudry Broadcaster Discovery Channel
WHO SANK THE BISMARCK ?
Producer
TV Documentary Company Context TV Director Julia Knobloch Broadcaster National Geographic
ROAL AMUNDSON – LOST IN THE ARCTIC
Producer
TV Documentary Company Context TV Director Rudolph Herzog Broadcaster ZDF, arte, National Geographic, NRK, YLE
MS. SENIOR SWEETHEART
Writer and Director
Documentary Company Credo Film
THE AFRICAN TWINTOWERS
Dramaturgial concept
Experimental film Company Filmgalerie 451 a project by Christoph Schlingensief
LIEBE WILL RISKIERT WERDEN
Writer and Director
Documentary Company HFBK Hamburg
In development
8th Life
Writers Room
Series Company Amusement Park & The Ink Factory Head Writer Sarah Lambert
Courage
Creator and Showrunner
Series Company Desert Flower Filmproduktion and Seven Elephants Director Julia von Heinz und N.N.
FOREST SHOWER HARMONY
Creator
Company Geißendörfer Pictures
WENN WIR WÖLFE WÄREN
Script Consultant
TV Series Company DCM Director Dominik Locher Broadcaster SRF
Awards
ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS
Bayerischer Filmpreis 2023 Award Best Documentary
FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires Award Best International Documentary
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Award Best Documentary and Audience Award: Documentary
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival Award Best Documentary and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
UNORTHODOX
ROMY 2021 Award Best Series TV/Stream
Grimme Preis 2021 Award Fiction
C21 International Drama Awards 2020 Award Best Mini-series
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020 Award Best Literary Adaptation Series
DER WUNSCH IST DER VATER
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Award Screenplay Award „Butter bei die Stoffe“ der
Biography
Sabine Steyer-Violet was born in 1981 and studied Visual Communication with Wim Wenders at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes in Lisbon. During and after her studies she shot a cinema documentary (MS. SENIOR SWEETHEART), various documentary contributions for arte and Zdf and at the same time went through all productional stations from setrunner to production manager. In the following years Sabine Steyer-Violet produced TV documentaries for National Geographic and Discovery Channel, European cinema co-productions (e.g. NUIT DE CHIEN), TV series (e.g. BLOCHIN) and music videos in close collaborations with artists such as Tilda Swinton, Christoph Schlingensief and Monika Treut. Sabine Steyer-Violet now focuses exclusively to the creative side of producing, especially to the script- and project development, as a screenwriter, script consultant and creative producer.
In addition, she founded the music consulting company Supertape and supervised numerous projects as music supervisor, such as the TV series BAD BANKS, the Netflix series UNORTHODOX and TRANSATLANTIC or the feature film JACK by Edward Berger.
Sabine Steyer-Violet lives in Berlin, is a mentor for the story development of the Serial Eye program of the DffB and on the board of the MOIN film funding.