Anna created the first German-languge series to be shown on American television.
Anna is an American writer, producer, screenwriter, and photographer who lives in Berlin. She is creator of the television dramas Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86, and Unorthodox, and the author of This Must Be the Place, a novel. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her radio series for NPR Worldwide, Berlin Stories, ran from 2009 to 2013.
Anna's miniseries Unorthodox debuted on Netflix on March 26, 2020, to great acclaim. She is currently developing a television series for BBCAmerica, a darkly comic family drama set in contemporary Berlin. She is also working on a second novel that takes place in Mexico, where she grew up.