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Douglas Wolfsperger was born December 25, 1957, as a German citizen in Zürich. He grew up in Friedrichshafen and in Konstanz at Lake Constance, started making his first super8 films as a schoolboy and became a trainee director at Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. In 1982, he moved to Munich where he participated in several productions at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film.
In 1985, he finished his first feature film "Lebe kreuz und sterbe quer". Since the early 1990s, he has also made numerous documentary films and portraits for SWF and WDR. For his feature film "Heirate mir! – Die Braut und ihr Totengräber" (1999), he hired the acting-inexperienced Verona Feldbusch for the leading role and thus caused a debate about pop culture. Alongside award-winning actor Ulrich Noethen, Feldbusch played a dubious Polish woman. In 2002, his film "Bellaria – so lange wir leben!" ("Bellaria – As Long As We Live!") was shown at numerous international film festivals and won several awards, including the Bavarian film award, the Ernst Lubitsch award of German Film Critics, as well as the Gold Plaque For Best Documentary in Chicago.
After a film about the famous comedian Max Hansen, "War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt?" ("Did You Ever Fall in Love with Me?", 2005) and a documentary film about delivery nurses and the phenomenon of the decline in the birth rate, "Der lange Weg ans Licht" ("Long Journey Into the Light", 2007), Wolfsperger turned to a very personal topic: Based on his own case, he dealt with the controversial problem of women who deny their former life partners any contact to their joint children after the end of the couple's relationship in his documentary film "Der entsorgte Vater".
In his next documentary "Doppelleben" ("Double Life"), released in 2012, Wolfsperger portraits two look-alikes of Angela Merkel competing against each other. Two years later, on 4 December 2014, the documentary "Wiedersehen mit Brundibar" premiered, a German-Czech co-production that won several awards. His next film, "Scala Adieu - Von Windeln verweht", about a Constance cinema that has to make way for a drugstore, also was awarded: At the Biberach Film Festival 2018, it received the Doku-Biber for Best Documentary Film.
To date, the father of two daughters lives in Berlin and at Lake Constance.