Dr. Alice Brauner

BIOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY PRODUCER AND SCREENWRITER

Dr. Alice Brauner was born in Berlin. After graduating from high school, she studied Modern History, Political Science and Romance Studies (French) at the Free University of Berlin.

After working as an editor for various print media, the historian became an interviewer and consultant at the “Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation”. Steven Spielberg’s foundation archives testimonies from Holocaust survivors. This was followed by a doctorate at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin on “Anti-democratic and racist tendencies in the New Right in Germany”. In 1999, she became a TV presenter, first for TV-Berlin and later for n-tv.

Today she is a film, television and web producer and managing director of CCC Filmkunst GmbH, CCC Cinema und Television GmbH and CCC Filmstudios.

She realized her first award-winning feature film together with her father Artur Brauner: DER LETZTE ZUG (2006). This was followed by TV films such as SO EIN SCHLAMASSEL for ARD and award-winning feature films such as WUNDERKINDER (2012) and AUF DAS LEBEN! (2014). In 2013, she was one of the first producers in Germany to produce the sitcom MISSION HOUSEMEN for the streaming portal MyVideo. In 2017, her first documentary MARINA, MABUSE UND MORITURI premiered at the goEast! festival in Wiesbaden.

She continues to develop ambitious cinema and TV material with her team. For ZDF, she produced the culture clash comedy MATZE, KEBAB UND SAUERKRAUT, which is not only linear but also a great success in the ZDF Mediathek.

It is also responsible for the licensing business and has been investing considerable sums for several years to enable the digital preservation of classics in 2k and 4k (more than 120 films have already been digitized, including THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR, WINNETOU AND OLD SHATTERHAND IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH, IT HAPPENED ON A BRIGHT DAY).

In order to boost the marketing of its own film studios in Berlin-Spandau, it began the extensive refurbishment of its own CCC Film Studios in Berlin-Spandau in 2015, where the entire studio portion of the first German Netflix series DARK was filmed from January to March 2017. This was followed by a wave of outstanding series and film productions, which were realized in the studios by various production companies, including the KU’DAMM series for ZDF (since 2017), the feature film ALS HITLER DAS ROSA KANINCHEN STAHL (2019), as well as other streaming hits such as DAS DAMENGAMBIT (Queen’s Gambit, 2019/20), ALMOST FLY (2021) and the elaborate Sky series HELGOLAND 513 and DER MEDICUS II (2024).

In addition to numerous awards for her films, including the Romy for Best Producer of a German Feature Film in 2012, she received the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award as Germany’s most courageous and innovative female entrepreneur in November 2017 and the RHEINGOLD Audience Award at the Festival des Deutschen Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 2019 for her feature film production CRESCENDO #makemusicnotwar. In 2020, the film won further national and international awards such as the Cinema for Peace Honorary Award 2020.

In September 2019, she hosted the two-part documentary “Jewish in Europe” for Arte. In addition, Alice Brauner was back in front of the camera from 2019 to 2021 and hosted the TV format “bilder der geschichte” for phoenix.

In late summer 2021, Alice Brauner’s book ALSO DANN IN BERLIN… (S. Fischer Verlag) was published, which became a Spiegel bestseller and is now in its 4th edition.

In February 2022, her successful eight-part podcast DAS SYSTEM SÖRING (for weeks at number 1 of Apple True Crime Podcasts and now viewed over 1,500,000 times) was released, a co-production of CCC Cinema and Television with argon.lab. The TV documentary series MORD. MACHT. MEDIA. DER FALL JENS SÖRING was broadcast on ARD on October 30, 2023 and has since been a successful streaming hit in the ARD media library.

Filming on her new feature film MÜNTER & KANDINSKY (Der Blaue Reiter), for which she also wrote the screenplay, was completed in July 2023. The drama will be released in cinemas nationwide on October 24. The film will also be presented internationally in 2025. Alice Brauner and Heike Gronemeier ‘s narrative non-fiction book about the film will be published by Penguin Random House to coincide with the theatrical release.

Together with Ed Herzog and Prof. Ulrich Limmer, she is currently developing the satire DIE FALSCHE GRÄFIN, a story about a highly intelligent con artist based on real people and events.

A new edition of DR. MABUSE. The series is being created in collaboration with Keshet Fiction Germany and a major German broadcaster.

She is also the screenplay for BLOCK 10.

Alice Brauner is a member of the German Film Academy, has been a jury member of the German Audio Film Award since 2017 and was a jury member of the Amnesty International Jury at this year’s Berlinale.