Marie Reiners is a German screenwriter and author, as well as the creator of the TV series and .
Reiners attended the University of Cologne from 1990, where classmate Hella Kemper encouraged her to work as a writer. During her undergraduate degree, Reiners was credited writer for three shows, including Alles Nichts Oder?!. Reiners then wrote for various shows and created the successful satirical crime series about a police station in the Eifel region.
Reiners first novel, Frauen, die Bärbel heiÃÂen (Women called Bärbel), was published in 2019 and tells the story of a 54-year-old taxidermist.