Lena Falkenhagen works as a Professor of Game Art and Design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Essen and a Narrative Director for video games with impact. Her latest game is „The Darkest Files“ with Paintbucket Games (Berlin), a game about Nazi crimes being persecuted after the fall of Nazi Germany.
In 2023, her game together with Paintbucket Game studio „Beholder 3“ won the German Computer Games Award for „Best Serious Game“, which in 2022 was awarded with the German Developer Award for „Best Story“ and „Best Game Beyond Entertainment”. In 2010, she was awarded the DeliA-award for her historical fiction novel „Die Lichtermagd“.
She is the national chair of the Association of German Authors (Verband deutscher Schriftsteller*innen (VS in ver.di)), on the board of administration of VG Wort, is political speaker of German Literaturkonferenz in the German Culture Council and co-founder of Phantastik-Autoren-Netzwerk (PAN) e. V.
