OTANA THIEDE

[she/her] Consultant for D&I storytelling, racism, sexism, mental health & DDR-Socialisation

 

Otana Thiede was born and raised in Schwerin. She studied musicology, German language and literature, and art history in Berlin. In 2008, she graduated from the Film School Hamburg Berlin as a screenwriter. Since then, she has been working on various concepts in the field of series and film, has written several short stories, and has taken on a number of editorships. In 2011, she was nominated for the DER CLOU authors' award at the Tatort Eifel crime festival for the crime story “Dreck am Stecken” (Dirt on Your Hands), written in collaboration with Carolin Brenner. In 2020, she worked in the writer's room on the concept development for a children's sketch comedy for Ostlicht-Filmproduktion GmbH. She is currently developing the series “Der Riss” with Leticia Milano, funded by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Fund. She also provides diversity-critical editing services and gives workshops on D&I recruiting and diversity management. Her many years of expertise as a sensitivity reader and diversity consultant are utilized by various institutions and organizations, including the Bavaria Group, Saxonia Media, UFA Fiction, and the Erich Pommer Institute.