Ariela Bogenberger (born February 27, 1962, in Munich) is a German screenwriter, producer, cabaret director and journalist.
Bogenberger is the daughter of Veronika Fitz and the actor Willi Anders.
Bogenberger worked as a journalist for the Badische Zeitung, the Münchner Merkur, the Münchner Theaterzeitung and BR-Hörfunk. She was responsible for several episodes of the cabaret television series Das Brettl as author and producer. She also worked as a cabaret director and as an author for the BR productions Live aus dem Schlachthof and Frauensache. In 2000 she was a scholarship holder of the Celle School. In 2002/2003 she completed the Drehbuchwerkstatt München, since then she has been active as a screenwriter. Her first book was the basis for Rainer Kaufmann's multi-award-winning television film '.
In 2017, she reported on her 18-year membership (1997âÂÂ2015) in the sect-like Kirschblütengemeinschaft of the guru Samuel Widmer in Petra K. Wagner's documentary film Aussteigen.
She lives with her husband, the composer and crime novelist ("Chiemsee Blues") Thomas Bogenberger, and their three children in Prien am Chiemsee.