Daniel Nocke was born in Hamburg in 1968. From 1994 to 1999, he studied screen play and animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His films as director and author include among others the animations films "Der Peitschenmeister", which won a Grimme prize, and "Die Trösterkrise", which was nominated for the First Step Award in 2000.

Nocke wrote the screen play to "Barracuda Dancing" which was directed by Stefan Krohmer, who attended director"s class at Filmakademie. Their graduation film for Filmakademie won Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best young director and the 2nd prize at the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis. Nocke and Krohmer continued their successful collaboration in the following years.

In 2002, their TV movie "Ende der Saison" won the Adolf Grimme prize in Gold. In 2003, Nocke and Krohmer made their movie debut with "Sie haben Knut" ("They’ve Got Knut"), which won best screenplay at Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik. Furthermore, director Krohmer"s and screenplay writer Nocke"s work includes TV movies such as "Familienkreise" (2003; Adolf Grimme Prize in Gold 2004) and "Ein toter Bruder" (2005).

Besides his work with Krohmer, Nocke continued to create animations films. In 2002, he finished "Der moderne Zyklop" ("The Modern Cyclops"). In the same year, Nocke received the Förderpreis of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in the category of film and media arts.