Theresia Anna Ficus studied stage design in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe and production design at the University of the Arts London and the Film University Babelsberg.
Her early work as production designer includes Dietrich Brüggemann's time-loop crime comedy TATORT: MUROT UND DAS MURMELTIER, winner of the Filmkunstpreis at the Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen 2018.
For Netflix she created the look of the first season of HOW TO SELL DRUGS ONLINE (FAST), directed by Lars Montag, which won the Grimme-Preis, the Deutscher Fernsehpreis and the ROMY. This was followed by the dramedy DAS LETZTE WORT by Aron Lehmann, starring Anke Engelke (Deutscher Fernsehpreis, Best Comedy Series), and the second season of BIOHACKERS. She also designed Florian Dietrich's feature debut TOUBAB, which won audience awards in Warsaw and at the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Her more recent work includes the series MUNICH GAMES by Philipp Kadelbach, the Netflix action thriller 60 MINUTEN by Oliver Kienle (Jupiter Award, Best National Film), the comedy SPIELEABEND by Marco Petry, the Netflix thriller BRICK by Philip Koch and David Dietl's EIN MÜNCHNER IM HIMMEL – DER TOD IST ERST DER ANFANG, which premiered at the Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen in 2026. She designed the third and final season of the internationally acclaimed Netflix series DIE KAISERIN, released in November 2026.
Theresia regularly works on international productions and has shot in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain, leading mixed German and international art departments. She is currently designing a spy thriller series set in the world of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), directed by Rick Ostermann and shot in Germany and Prague.
Theresia is a member of the German Film Academy and lives in Berlin.
Her early work as production designer includes Dietrich Brüggemann's time-loop crime comedy TATORT: MUROT UND DAS MURMELTIER, winner of the Filmkunstpreis at the Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen 2018.
For Netflix she created the look of the first season of HOW TO SELL DRUGS ONLINE (FAST), directed by Lars Montag, which won the Grimme-Preis, the Deutscher Fernsehpreis and the ROMY. This was followed by the dramedy DAS LETZTE WORT by Aron Lehmann, starring Anke Engelke (Deutscher Fernsehpreis, Best Comedy Series), and the second season of BIOHACKERS. She also designed Florian Dietrich's feature debut TOUBAB, which won audience awards in Warsaw and at the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Her more recent work includes the series MUNICH GAMES by Philipp Kadelbach, the Netflix action thriller 60 MINUTEN by Oliver Kienle (Jupiter Award, Best National Film), the comedy SPIELEABEND by Marco Petry, the Netflix thriller BRICK by Philip Koch and David Dietl's EIN MÜNCHNER IM HIMMEL – DER TOD IST ERST DER ANFANG, which premiered at the Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen in 2026. She designed the third and final season of the internationally acclaimed Netflix series DIE KAISERIN, released in November 2026.
Theresia regularly works on international productions and has shot in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain, leading mixed German and international art departments. She is currently designing a spy thriller series set in the world of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), directed by Rick Ostermann and shot in Germany and Prague.
Theresia is a member of the German Film Academy and lives in Berlin.
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