Biography
Anika Decker was born in Marburg on August 1 1975. She studied literature in Munich before eventually taking a job in a production company and starting out in the film business. She garnered first-hand experience working in different departments, including stints as line producer and script supervisor, and completed an apprenticeship as TV producer in Cologne. Decker was part of the production staff of the reality format "Big Brother", worked on screenplays for the telenovela "Tessa - Leben für die Liebe" (2005/2006), and was author of a sex column in a skateboarding magazine.
By chance, she made the acquaintance of Til Schweiger, who hired her as a co-author for his comedy "Keinohrhasen" ("Rabbits Without Ears", 2007). With over six million admissions, the film turned out to be a tremendous box-office success and garnered numerous accolades, including the Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis, the Deutsche Comedy-Preis and the audience award at the Bavarian Film Awards. The sequel "Zweiohrküken" ("Rabbits Without Ears 2", 2009), again written by Decker and Schweiger, also became a popular hit with over four million admissions.
Decker went on to win the Austrian Film Award "Romy" for her screenplay to Detlev Buck's "Rubbeldiekatz" ("Woman in Love", 2011), a comedy about a man disguising himself as a woman set in the film industry.
In 2015, Anika Decker made her debut as writer-director with the feature film comedy "Traumfrauen" ("Dreamgirls"), which revolves around the romantic adventures and mishaps of four unlikely female friends. Like all the films penned by her, "Traumfrauen" was a great success with audiences.
Just one year later, Decker's second film as writer, director and co-producer, "High Society," was released. However, she was not quite able to match the success of "Traumfrauen" with it.
In 2018, she received a three-year exclusive contract from Constantin Film. The following year, she published her first novel: in the partly autobiographical "Wir von der anderen Seite", she processed her experiences following an artificial coma into which she had been placed in 2010 due to life-threatening blood poisoning.
In October 2020, Decker sued distributor Warner Bros. and Til Schweiger's Barefoot Films for disclosure of income from the films "Keinohrhasen" and "Zweiohrküken". In February 2022, she was legally granted this right before the Berlin Superior Court after both companies withdrew their appeal against a previous ruling.
In the same year, Decker's next film opened in theaters: "Liebesdings" ("Love Thing"), a comedy about a movie star who hides out in a feminist theater while on the run from the media. Elyas M'Barek and Lucie Heinze played the leading roles.