Saralisa Volm has several careers: As an author, she examines women’s roles As an actress, she dares to go to extremesas a producer she realizes Films about sexual identity and as a director she has now shot her first “Tatort”. We met the 40-year-old in the office of her production company Poison in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

THE TIME: Ms. Volm, you have a successful year behind you. Your TV movie Until the truth was awarded at the German Television Prize, and in the new year it will be your first Crime scene broadcast: Nightshade. For many directors, this is an accolade on German television.