Arabella Bartsch has many passions as a filmmaker. With a master's degree in TV journalism she started working as a director for documentaries as well as commercials and music videos. In 2020 she shot her first narrative piece- a comedy series called DEADLINES for zdfNeo, which was recognized very quickly as one of a kind in German television. Arabella Bartsch was nominated as Best Director and DEADLINES as best comedy series at Deutscher Fernsehpreis. After that, she directed the series DRUCK (season 7)- a coming of age drama series for FUNK in 2021. Her lead actor Eren M. Güvercin was nominated for Deutscher Schauspielerpreis 2022 in the category Younger Generation for his performance in the series. In 2021 Arabella also directed a documentary about Dunja Hayali, HER STORY, for Sky, which was nominated for Deutscher Kamerapreis in the category documentation / docu-series. In 2022 Arabella was the lead-director the first season of LOVE ADDICTS, a comedy series for Amazon Prime (episode 1-4).
2023 she directed PAULINE as a lead director (episode 1-3) for Disney+ which will be released in 2024.