Saskia Marka (née Rüter; born 1975) is a German film title designer, known for her work on the TV series Babylon Berlin, The Queen's Gambit, Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86 and Deutschland 89.^[1]

Marka studied communication design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design (Muthesius Kunsthochschule) in Kiel. After receiving her diploma there, she went on to study Film & TV Design (today: Motion Design) at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg in 2000, which Marka also completed with a diploma in 2003.^[2]

Since then she has been working as a freelancer and has designed title sequences, opening and closing credits for many German and international films and television series. Marka also designed the artwork for several German feature films and series. In 2010, she became the first German title designer to receive the Certificate Of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club of New York for her title design for the German feature film This Is Love.^[3]

Marka achieved international fame with her work for the television series Babylon Berlin (2017), The Queen's Gambit (2020), Deutschland 83 (2015), Deutschland 86 (2018) and Deutschland 89 (2020). Her opening credits for the TV series Deutschland 83^[4] were among "The 10 Best Opening Credits of 2015" of the website Vulture.com.^[5] The title sequence for the TV series Babylon Berlin, created by Marka, "was named Art of the Title’s number one title sequence of 2018".^[6] In 2019 she was nominated for the SXSW Film Design Award (the jury prize for Excellence in Title Design) at the SXSW Film Festival for her title design of the series Babylon Berlin.^[7] In 2021, Marka won the SXSW Film Design Award and received a Bronze Cube at the 100th Annual ADC Awards^[8] for her end title sequence for the series The Queen's Gambit.^[9] This sequence made it also into the "Top Picks of 2020" by industry website Art of the Title.^[10] In the same year, she also received an Emmy nomination for her work on The Queen's Gambit.^[11]