Paulina Lorenz studied film, music and visual culture at the University of Hildesheim and Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut screenplay credit was Faraz Shariat’s debut feature Futur Drei / No Hard Feelings (Jünglinge Film, 2020), a film that gathered an exceptional array of festival recognition: the First Steps Award for Best Feature Film, the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film, the Gilde Film Award for Best Film in Young Cinema, and the Cinema Award of the CIVIS Medienstiftung.

Her subsequent writing credits include episodes of Druck Season 6 (Bantry Bay/ZDFneo, 2020), Writers Room contributions to Doppelhaushälfte (Iconoclast Films/ZDFneo, 2021), the series Zeit Verbrechen – Love by Proxy (X-Filme Creative Pool, dir. Faraz Shariat, 2023) — which received the FernsehKrimi Preis for Crime Series of the Year in 2024 — and two episodes of Krank Berlin (Real Film/Violet Pictures/Apple TV+/ZDFneo, directors Fabian Möhrke and Alex Schaad, 2023), which received the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Best Drama Series in 2025.

Her most recent credits include episodes of the RTL+ series Euphorie (Zeitsprung Pictures, 2024) and Wake Up (U5 Filmproduktion/ZDF, directors Mia Maariel Meyer and Tim Trachte, 2025).

In 2015 she founded production company Jünglinge Film alongside Faraz Shariat, which centers queer-feminist and postmigrant perspectives in storytelling and produced work such as Futur Drei / No Hard Feelings, the feature film Staatsschutz / Prosecution (2026), that won the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award and received several awards for the series Schwarze Früchte / Black Fruits (ARD /2024). Paulina is based in Berlin.