Toks Körner
Festivals and Awards - Selection
2022: "Borga" - African Movie Academy Awards - Best screenplay
2021: "Borga" Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis - Winner in 4 categories: *Best film *Award for Society Relevant Film 2021 *Audience Award 2021 *Ecumenical Jury Prize 2021
2021: "Stille Post" - Audience Award: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival
2020: "Stille Post" - European Work in Progress PR Award
Film / TV - Selection
2022 | Bomba - Die Charly Graf Story | Rat Pack München | feature film | script, in development, with Marcel Gardelli
2022 | Bad Influencer | Tellux Film | SWR | TV series | concept with Anika Soissons, Chris Martin
2021 | Eine deutsche Geschichte | Joe Vision Production CC | TV series | script consulting
2021 | Sam - ein Sachse | Big Windows, UFA | Disney Plus | TV series | Author in Writers Room and one episode Co - Author Soleen Yusef
2021 | Real Life Guys, Do Something | Lieblingsfilm | Paramount+ | feature film | script, with Sven Fockner
2021 | Die Heiland - Die Fehldiagnose | Olga Film | RBB, ARD Degeto | TV series | script - in development
2020 | Es ist zu deinem Besten | Koryphäenfilm | feature film | Director: Marc Rothemund | script with Felix Starck und Hans Rath
2020 | Homeshoppers Paradise | Zieglerfilm, Baden-Baden | SWR, arte, MFG | feature film - comedy | script with Nancy Mac Granaky- Quaye, Dennis Todorovic
2020 | Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg…? | Bavaria Fiction | ARD Degeto | TV series | script
2020 | Daktari | Rat Pack Filmproduktion | TV series | Head Author and Creator with Thandi Sebe
2020 | Das Café am Rande der Welt (engl. Orignal: The why café ) | Rat Pack Filmproduktion | feature film - literary adaptation | Author: Will Geiger (Los Angeles) script consulting
2020 | Sa Wolgu (AT) | One Fine Day Film | feature film | script - in development
2019 | Borga | Chromosomfilm | feature film | Director: York Fabian Raabe | script with York Fabian Raabe
2019 | Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Mission Zukunft | Bavaria Fiction | ARD Degeto | TV series | script with Sebastian Bleyl and Christian Krüger
2019 | Druck (3. Staffel) | Bantry Bay | ZDF Neo | TV series | script for 2 episodes
2018 | Patchwork Pasta | TV film - comedy | script with Tara Biere, in development
2017 | Stille Post | Chromosomfilm | feature film | Author: Florian Hoffmann, script consulting
2019 | Aesthetics of Color | Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin | theatre | Author and Director
2019 | Walking Large | Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin | theatre | Author
Theatre - Selection
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Toks Körner was born in East Berlin to an East German student and a Nigerian doctor. He has a migration background, but his migration amounts solely to his move from the GDR to the West. Toks first studied acting in Essen and New York. This is where the foundation for his understanding of “storytelling” was laid. Toks found his way to writing through acting. Between 2011 and 2015, he studied screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) and has been working as a screenwriter ever since. Today, his acting experience still forms an important basis for his work as an author and script consultant.
His debut film “Borga”, which he co-wrote with director and writer York-Fabian Raabe, received several national and international awards, including the Max Ophüls Award in four categories and the African Movie Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Toks is a member of the German Film Academy, where he organises the “Brain Room”, an internal event for Academy members to talk about film material and ideas. Since 2021, he has been a jury member of the ‘Screenplay’ section of the First Steps Award.
