WORDS ABOUT
Alissa Jung first sensed that imagination and her love of fiction could be a profession in 1991, when she saw a notice in her school: “Looking for children to participate in audio plays!” That’s how she started to take part in audio books, to dub, to write reportages for the radio herself and to act on stage. At 16, she was discovered for film during a theatre performance and has worked successfully as an actress ever since. In her mid-20s, she began directing her own short films, documentaries and youth theatre plays. In 2015, she took a break from the film world to finish her medical studies. Afterwards she worked as a pediatrician in a Berlin clinic for 3 years. In 2019, she returned to the film world with the movie “A matter of life” and was nominated for the Grimme Award as the leading actress. In 2021 she graduated from the “Drehbuchwerkstatt München” (HFF Munich) with her screenplay for the feature film “Paternal Leave”and was nominated for the “Tankred Dorst” award. In 2024, she realised her feature film debut Paternal Leave as a director.
Alissa Jung is also the head of Pen Paper Peace, a NGO she founded to promote education worldwide.
DIRECTOR
Alissa Jung realises her own short films, documentaries and youth theatre plays. She is currently working on her first feature film.
Alissa is represented by Fitz+Skoglund Agents.
2024 – Paternal Leave
feature film – The MatchFactory + Wildside, currently in postproduction (funding Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, BKM, MDM, Emilia Romagna Film Comission)
2023 – Farah
short film – LOBOCITOfilm – BEST SHORT at “Filmfestival Goldener Spatz”, 3rd Prize of the Jury at “GoMental Filmfestival”
2022 – Die Mauer muss weg! (The Wall Has To Fall)
short film – LOBOCITOfilm – International Shortfilmfestival Dresden 2023, Alice nella Città 2023
2016 – Wut und Trauer (anger and sadness)
Children’s Theatre – Murkelbühne Berlin
2016 – Heile-Welt-Fragmente (ideal-world-fragments)
Youth’s Theatre – Murkelbühne Berlin
2015 – Nou Timoun Peye D`Ayiti (We are kids from Haiti)
Short Documentary – Pen Paper Peace e.V.
2015 – Willi
Children’s Theatre – Murkelbühne Berlin
2015 – Hexenjagd (The Crucible)
Youth’s Theatre – Murkelbühne Berlin
2011 – Mein Sommermärchen (My summer fairytale)
short film, 11mm Fußballfilmfestival
2010 – Kleine Mauer (Little Wall)
Documentary – International Student Film Festival Sehsüchte 2011 /Interfilm Berlin 2011
2008 – Spring! (Jump!)
short film – shnit filmfestival / short shots audience award
2008 – Mücke (Mosquito)
short film – 48h moviemarathon, finalist
FARAH
… won BEST SHORT at Filmfestival Goldener Spatz!!!
… won the 3rd prize of the Jury at GoMental Filmfestival
AUTHOR
Alissa Jung is a graduate of the Drehbuchwerkstatt München. Alissa is represented by Fitz+Skoglund Agents.
2021 – Paternal Leave
feature film – The MatchFactory + Wildside, currently in Postproduction
2021 – Farah
short film – LOBOCITOfilm
2020 – Die Mauer muss weg
short film – LOBOCITOfilm – International Shortfilmfestival Dresden 2023, Alice nella Città 2023
2016 – Wut und Trauer
Children’s Theatre
2011 – Ameisenknochen
feature film
2009 – Mücke
short film
2008 – Spring!
short film
ACTRESS
At 16, Alissa Jung was discovered for film during a theatre performance and has been working successfully as an actress ever since.
Alissa is represented in Germany by Fitz+Skoglund Agents and in Italy by DO Agency.
FILM SELECTION (LEADING ROLES)
2021 – Angstgestalt
Abschlußfilm, HFF Konrad Wolf
2018 – Das Menschenmögliche
ZDF (Grimme Award nomination)
2015 – SOKO 5113 – Dead Angel
ZDF
2012 – Zweisitzrakete
Cinema (Max Ophüls Festival)
2012 – Open my eyes
Cinema
2011 – Mary of Nazareth
International
2011 – In my sister´s wedding dress
SAT.1
2010 – The emperor´s new clothes
ARD
2009 – Schafe zählen
short film DFFB, Achtung Berlin Filmfestival
2009 – Tatort – Der Polizistinnenmörder
ARD
2008 – Griechische Küsse
SAT.1
2007 – Hochzeit in Hardingsholm
ZDF
2006 – Stolberg – Der Sonnenkönig
ZDF
2005 – Schmetterlinge im Bauch
SAT.1
PEN PAPER PEACE
Since the beginning in 2011 Alissa is the chairwoman of Pen Paper Peace e.V. , an organization committed to education. We want to build worldwide bridges through educational projects. Because education creates perspectives, courage and is the prerequisite for independent action.
On the one hand, we are committed to political work with children and young people in Europe. We want to encourage independent thinking, clarify global relationships and their influences on people and point out options for action without paternalism. At the same time, we support projects in Haiti, Honduras and Namibia, which provide access to education and a safe learning environment for children.