Biography
Hendrik Löbbert was born in Bonn in 1979. From 2002 to 2007, he studied media design with a focus on documentary film at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. During an exchange year in 2005/2006, he studied video art and photography at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada), as well as film studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
After graduating in Weimar, Löbbert first worked as an editor and video producer for several TV production companies, including AVE Publishing (2007–2009), Argon Film (2008–2009), and WeltN24 (2010–2013). He also created a video campaign for Volkswagen in China. In 2014, together with Klaus Neumann-Ege, he founded the Berlin-based production company Non Fiction Society (later joined by Swedish producer Caroline Ektander).
Löbbert made his feature debut with the documentary "Grenzbock" (2015), in which he followed three hunters during a traditional driven hunt in Brandenburg. The film premiered at the Hof International Film Festival in 2015 and was released in German cinemas in early 2016.
In the following years, Löbbert produced numerous documentary projects and television reports, mainly for Arte, 3sat, and ZDF. Among them were medium-length documentaries such as "Das getäuschte Gedächtnis – Falsche Erinnerungen vor Gericht" (2016, co-directed with Klaus Neumann-Ege), which examines the conditions under which false memories can form; "Wissenschaft im Aufbruch" (2019, also with Neumann-Ege), about innovative approaches to pharmaceutical research; and "Käse auf Rädern: Nachhaltig, regional, mobil" (2022), portraying a mobile creamery. He also contributed to the documentary series "42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles. Werden wir mehr Drogen nehmen?" (2022), which investigated scientific studies on the possible benefits of psychedelics.
With "Memory Wars – Elizabeth Loftus und die Macht der Erinnerung" ("Memory Wars," 2024), a portrait of the scientist and expert witness Elizabeth Loftus, Löbbert completed his second theatrical documentary. After its world premiere at the CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen in March 2025, the film was released in German cinemas in September 2025.