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Peter Meister was born in Bonn in 1987 and grew up in Bensheim. He studied film, literature and philosophy in Mainz during which he completed assistantships and internships in the film and TV sector, among others at the public braodcaster ZDF, and worked as an assistant director at the theatre. Also as a student, he began making his first short films in 2008. "Parkplatzliebe" ("Parking Love") received the Award of Excellence at the Canada International Film Festival. Together with Frédéric Hambalek, who had already produced all of Meister's short films, he founded the production company Kabakon Film & Medien in Bensheim in 2015.
Meister's absurdly funny short film "Es war feucht, dunkel und roch nach Holz" ("It Was Damp, Dark and Smelled Like Wood", 2015), which depicts the last twelve minutes inside the Trojan Horse, won audience awards at the Festival Filmz in Mainz 2016 and at the Shorts at Moonlight Short Film Festival. "Horizon" (2018), about three starving men on a lifeboat, was awarded Best Regional Short Film at the Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt 2018 and also won the audience award there. In the 25-minute "Menschenjagd" (2018), Meister tells of the encounter between a right-wing vigilante and a black man, which ends differently than expected. At the Hessian Film Awards, the dark comedy won the prize for Best Short Film.
As a scholarship holder of the Drehbuchwerkstatt München, Meister developed his feature film debut "Das schwarze Quadrat" ("The Black Square"), a bizarre comedy about two crooks who steal Kasimir Malevich's famous painting "The Black Square". In summer 2018 he received the Tankred Dorst Prize for the screenplay. Filming took place in spring and summer 2020.