Screen Play Writing

"Verbes videre, Vivre in fabulis"

Creating stories and bringing them to live has always been a fascination of mine. From poetry to scientific presentations, having a good story to tell and knowing how to capture the audiences' attention is as challenging as rewarding. One particular hobby that helps me develop my storytelling skills are table-top roll playing games (TRPG).

Dungeon and Dragons miniature figures in the middle of battling a frost giant.

Dungeons and Dragons might be the most famous TRPG. It allows the player to dive into a medieval fantasy world filled with magic, strange creatures and knights in shining armor. By working together and honing their skills, they can fight the various evil forces in their world. To create such a world for the players requires a lot of preparation. Idealy, it should be filled with interesting challenges, puzzles to solve and a captivating story the players can experience. The story needs to be intriguing, well-thought-out but at the same time flexible to whatever the players actually do. And let me tell you, they will definitely deviate from whatever you had planned for them. Creating stories in this environment is exactly how it should be: challenging and rewarding

Cover of the Dungeon and Dragons story The Hunter and the Hunted written by Sven Kiefer and Vanessa Sennrich.

During several years of playing Dungeons and Dragons, I created many worlds and crafted many stories. Some smaller ones, like the story of a monster riddled world were brave adventurers hunt monsters called "The Hunter and the Hunted". Or the story of soldiers stationed at an outpost who need to protect the surrounding villages called "A Vally in Peril". To help you out, I have created some example characters to dive right into a one shot. Dragons adaptation of "Die Hölenwelt Saga". This work is still ongoing but feel free to contact me to learn more!

During the anthology Around Distant Suns, I had the pleasure to work together with Guy Woods. Together we created the radio play "Cloudgazing". In it, Mary meets a strange cloud which leads to unexpected discoveries. Working together with Guy thought me a great deal on screen play writing which was interestingly different to what I did before. I hope to have similar opportunities in the future.

SEADS

SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design) is a transdisciplinary and cross-cultural collective of artists, scientists, engineers and activists.

Metafuturism

A group of interdisciplinary projects with the goal to tackle future problems already today.

Entrance to the MEME in 2020

MEME (Massive Exoplanet Meme Exposition)

Together with 3 friends, I co-founded the MEME. Every year in January, the MEME presents memes all around exoplanets, astrophysics and student life.

ARIS

ARIS is the rocket team of ETH Zuerich. In 2019, I was the payload team leader and together we won 2nd place.

TeamDerpalert

A game development team that started from a high school project. Several groups worked on the design, coding and screen play.

Astrowoche

A week on Diavolezza at 3000m trying to observe stellar clusters during a snow storm.

SYPT (Swiss Young Physicist Tournament)

The SYPT is a annual competition where high school students have to prepare, conduct and present a physics experiment.

Around Distant Suns

A collaboration between writers and exoplanet scientists to create short stories, poems and radio plays based on contemporary research.