Antje Sachwitz was born in 1984 on the outskirts of Berlin. After working in Canada, Switzerland and France, she lives as a freelance writer in Neukölln. She works as an editor for screenplays, writes regularly for neukoellner.net, contributed to science magazines on 3Sat and wrote comedy sketches for Sat1. She works on her own screenplays and chalks up her two dropped-out studies (human medicine and English literature) to either „bad decisions make good stories“ or „well behaved women rarely make history“.