CHRISTIAN WEHRLIN
WRITER
Christian Wehrlin is a writer and producer born in Bern, Switzerland. After his studies in social anthropology (focus on visual anthropology, i.e. documentary film) and international law, he worked for over ten years as a location manager, location scout and production manager on feature films and commercials.
Christian wrote two episodes of the Swiss crime comedy “Tschugger” – the fourth season, adapted as a feature film, was the second most watched Swiss film of 2024. He is also a writer on “Maloney,” an adaptation of a radio play, co-head writer of “Unsere kleine Botschaft,” the first Swiss sitcom in 20 years, and contributed two episodes to the thriller series “Blind,” produced by Zodiac Pictures for SRF, scheduled to air in late 2026.
Many of his projects are developed as a duo with co-writer Pascal Glatz. With “Gold,” they participated in TFL Next 2023 at the Torino Film Lab, the Boosting Impact Programme of the European Writers Club, and received the Suissimage/SSA Screenplay Development Award. Most recently, “Gold” won the Co-Pro Pitching at the EFM Berlinale 2026 and was selected for the Co-Pro Pitching at Series Mania.
An alumnus of the Cannes Series Writers' Club and the ZFF Academy, he has trained at the Erich Pommer Institute, the Midpoint Institute, Raindance and the London Film School. He is a member of the European Writers' Desk and a board member of the Swiss Directors and Writers Association ARF/FDS, where he heads the legal advisory service. He writes in German and English.
Christian Wehrlin is represented by Carole Sonderegger.
TSCHUGGER
COMING UP
Unsere kleine Botschaft
Christian Wehrlin’s exciting new project, the sitcom “Unsere kleine Botschaft,” will be released in autumn. Come back soon to learn more or catchup, until then, on his latest project “Maloney” an the fourth season of “Tschugger.”
VARIA
IZZO / MARSEILLE
“Whether one becomes a policeman or a gangster is pure biographical coincidence.” So it is said in Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseille trilogy. The books are much more than just crime stories, they are socially realistic portraits of this incredibly complex city.
Izzo doesn't think in black and white, but gets as close to his characters as he does to the places they inhabit. I love him for that, and that's why I always have this sentence in mind when working on characters.
Christian Wehrlin