Katrin Merkel started as a screenwriter, from 2001 to 2009 she worked as script reader and dramaturge for RTL in Cologne. After some years as a freelance script consultant and teacher she published in 2021 together with her co-writer Timo Gösler „DER GERMAN ROOM“. Since 2023 she is Head of Studies of Serial Eyes at dffb in Berlin and is working as a writers‘ room coach.