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name: "Khyana El Bitar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/khyana-el-bitar"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:05:44.099549+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Khyana El Bitar

Writer. Born 1 January 1964 in Hanover, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1964, Hanover, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23653626, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/929388

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Babylon Berlin*](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md) (82)

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## Biography

Khyana el Bitar is a German screenwriter. Born in 1964 in Hanover, she studied society and economic communication at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, completed acting training in Berlin, Karlsruhe and New York, and studied directing and screenwriting at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1993.

She has written for numerous German television series and films, including three episodes of *Tatort* (2007–2017), episodes of *Wilsberg*, *Der Kriminalist* and *Alles Klara*, and twelve episodes of *Babylon Berlin* (season 4, 2022, co-written with Bettine von Borries). Earlier credits include the feature *Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung* (2006, with Matthias Keilich) and *Mitfahrer* (2004). She has also acted, appearing in *Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen* (2000).

El Bitar received the Grimme-Preis in 2017 for *Dead Man Working* and shared in the Crime Series of the Year award at the Deutsches Fernsehkrimifestival in 2023 for *Babylon Berlin* season 4. She lives in Berlin.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, verlagderautoren.de, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Der Thüringenkrimi - Gerechtigkeit* (2026), Writer
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Dead Man Working* (2016), Writer
- *Katie Fforde: Mein Wunschkind* (2015), Script
- *Die Pilgerin* (2014), series, Writer
- *The System* (2012), Writer
- *Alles was recht ist – Väter, Töchter, Söhne* (2011), Screenplay
- *Die Könige der Nutzholzgewinnung* (2006), Writer
- *Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women* (2000), as Marion
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, Writer
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Writer
- *Neues Land*, Writer

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