Alexa Karolinski

In 2019, Karolinski co-wrote and co-created the Netflix show Unorthodox (2020) with Anna Winger, a 4-part series about a young woman who flees Brooklyn’s Satmar community to start a new life in Berlin, based on Deborah Feldman’s memoir of the same title. It was directed by Maria Schrader and stars Shira Haas.

Karolinski’s second feature documentary, Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life), was an essay film about the different ways Jews and gentiles in Germany ritualize their historical burden. It was released in 2018 to great critical acclaim. Der Spiegel, called it “the German-Jewish work of its generation.”

In 2017, Karolinski directed the film Fashion at War: Crafting the Nazi Brand for Condé Nast's M2M.

In 2016, Karolinski started her ongoing art-video collaboration with writer/artist Ingo Niermann. Their film Army of Love premiered at the Berlin Biennale. It has since been included in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, MACBA, Castello di Rivoli, as well as CCCB and the Wiesbaden Biennale. Their second installment of the series, OCEANO DE AMOR, was part of a three month exhibition Auto Italia gallery in London, and will have its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in March 2020.

Starting in 2013, Karolinski started her long-running collaboration with the fashion brand Eckhaus Latta. The videos she produced and directed for the LA-based brand have been shown at the Museum of Art and Design, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, as well as Galerie Isabella Bortlozzi, in Berlin.

Alexa Karolinski (born 1984) is a German filmmaker, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. More recently, she co-wrote, produced, and co-created the Netflix series Unorthodox (2020).