Wolfgang Groos was born in Kassel on April 22 1968. He studied production at the Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dfffb), and graduated in 2003. Already during his student years, he worked in several functions in film production, and was an assistant director on such films as Matthias Glasner"s "Fandango" (2000), Dominik Graf"s "Der Felsen" (2002) and Tomy Wigand"s "Das fliegende Klassenzimmer" (2003). His debut short "Wenn zwei sich streiten" (2004) won the Critic"s Prize at the Mexico International Film Festival. From 2005 on, Groos worked as a director for TV productions, and in 2009, he presented his first feature film "Hangtime – Kein leichtes Spiel". The following year, he completed his second feature with "Vorstadtkrokodile 3".