Philipp Grüll is the author of numerous documentaries for Germany’s public broadcaster Das Erste/ARD and the German-French channel ARTE. He has profiled high-ranking politicians such as Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz on their path to the German chancellorship. His work has focused on right-wing terrorism and international arms trafficking. He was also involved in major international investigations such as the Xinjiang Police Files on the repression of Uyghurs by Chinese authorities. His ARTE production “Wanted”, about the hunt for the world’s most wanted arms dealer, has been broadcast in over a dozen countries since 2023; the English version has reached more than ten million streams. His accompanying SPIEGEL-bestseller “The Chinese Phantom” (written together with Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer and Christoph Giesen) has been translated into five languages and published in the USA, UK, and Australia, among others. Philipp Grüll is also a guest lecturer, including at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). His work has received multiple awards — most recently in 2025 the Civis Prize and the international AIPS Sport Media Award and nominations for the Grimme Award and the German TV Prize.