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Alison Kuhn was born in Saarbrücken in 1995. From 2013 to 2015, she trained as an actor at the Film Acting School Cologne (FAS Köln) and appeared, among other roles, in a leading part in the award-winning feature film "Grey Hat" (2015). As an author, she received the federal award for young poetry, “Lyrix,” in 2017. The following year, she began studying directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, where she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in the field of Art/Design/Film from 2020 onward.
During her studies, Kuhn made her feature-length debut with "The Case You", a documentary about five actresses (including Kuhn herself) who took part in a casting process marked by systematic sexual and physical abuse. The film received several awards, including the Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis 2021 and the megaherz Student Award at DOK.fest Munich.
Kuhn's 15-minute short film "Fluffy Tales" (2021), about a model who suddenly finds herself trapped in a bizarre role during a photo shoot, screened at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival and was nominated for the German Short Film Award. As part of German Films' Next Generation program, it was also shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2022. Her half-hour fiction film "Schwarmtiere" ("The Swarmers," 2022), centered on an unconventional boarding school student, was nominated for the First Steps Award and screened internationally, including at the AFI Fest of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
Also in 2022, Kuhn wrote and directed an episode of the eighth season of the youth series "Druck". In early 2023, while still a student, she directed the miniseries "WatchMe", which follows a couple, a mother, and a body positivity activist who all earn their living through an online platform for pornographic content. Kuhn completed her master's degree at the Film University Babelsberg in 2024.
At the end of 2023, Kuhn began shooting her first feature fiction film, "Holy Meat", an absurd comedy about a Swabian community attempting an ambitious staging of the Passion of Christ. "Holy Meat" premiered at the Munich Film Festival in June 2025 and was released in cinemas in January 2026.
Earlier, in October 2025, the coming-of-age thriller series "Schattenseite" ("Shadow Leaks") aired, for which Kuhn directed two of the six episodes. Also in October 2025, she began work on her second feature film, the coming-of-age story "Die Matriarchin" ("The Matriach"), scheduled for release in 2026.