Amélie Vrla

Amélie Vrla was born in 1983 in Paris, to a French mother and a Czech father who grew up in Senegal. After living in Paris, Luxembourg, and briefly in New York, she has been based in Berlin since 2012, where she works as a writer, script doctor, translator, and death doula.

In 2013, she published the literary essay "ROMAIN GARY, EMILE AJAR : REGARDS CROISES", followed in 2015 by the short stories collection "ELLE REPONDIT : BERLIN, BABY !” ("Berlin,baby!") In 2024, this collection was translated into Serbian and published by Partizanska knjiga, with the support of Kultur | lx.

In 2025, Amélie Vrla wrote the screenplay for the animated short film "THE STAR", funded by the Film Fund Luxembourg. Directed by Jiyun Jeong and produced by Doghouse Films, the film explores the subject of perinatal grief through the eyes of a five-year-old girl.

Together with Susanne Hertel, Amélie Vrla co-created and co-wrote the series "ZËMMER ZE VERLOUNEN" (Room for Rent), broadcast in 2017. She also developped and co-wrote various feature films that received both the Direct Aid for Authors and the Production Selective Financial Support (AFS) from the Film Fund Luxembourg.

Her poems and articles have been published and broadcast in various media (Fair Magazine, Mondoblog, Le Jeudi, Tageblab, Le Petit Journal, Café Babel, RFI’s L’Atelier des médias, Radio Muckefunk, the Lesebühne of the Berlin Women Writers’ Network...).

"ENFANTER UNE ETOILE QUI DANSE" ("Giving Birth To A Dancing Star") is her first novel. It is published by Hydre Éditions and L'Harmattan.

She is currently working on the sequel to this novel, "MERES ORPHELINES" (Orphaned Mothers"), which received the Aid for Artistic Creation grant from the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture.

As a death doula, Amélie Vrla is a volunteer at the Vivantes Tempelhof hospice in Berlin. She also facilitates creative writing workshops, multi-sensory meditations and sharing circles about end of life and grief.