Petra Lüschow (born in 1966) is a German author, director and dramatist. After completing a course of study in Theatre Studies, Film and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and University of Vienna and obtaining a Master’s degree, Lüschow studied Screenwriting and Dramaturgy at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF from 1996 to 2001.
Her first cinema film as a screenwriter was “Nachbeben” (“Going Private”), which premiered in 2006 and won international prizes. In 2010, she made her debut as a director with the black comedy short film “Der kleine Nazi” (“The Little Nazi”), for which she also wrote the script. The film was screened worldwide at over one hundred festivals and won numerous international jury and audience prizes. Her first full-length feature film “Petting statt Pershing” (“Good Girl Gone Bad”), which she also wrote and directed, won the Best New Direction prize at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.
Apart from working as an author and director, Petra Lüschow is a freelance dramatist who focuses on auteur film, genre and high-end series.
Since 2007, she has also taught dramatic writing and dramaturgy at the dffb German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. She has been advising the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media regularly on cinematic material as a dramatist since 2012.
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