Biography
Katharina Huber was born in 1985 in St. Petersburg. From 2006 to 2012, she studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), where she created several short animated films, some of which screened at festivals. She also contributed animation work to the projects of fellow students. After graduating, she attended the Royal College of Art in London with a DAAD scholarship.
As an animation artist, she worked on the award-winning short documentary "Ein Aus Weg" ("Loophole") by Simon Steinhorst and Hannah Stragholz. She served as co-producer on the feature-length documentary "Out of the Gardens" (2018). Between 2017 and 2020, Huber created the 22-minute animated film "Der natürliche Tod der Maus" ("The Natural Death Of A Mouse") which received the German Short Film Award and the Jury Prize at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. At Vienna Shorts, the film won the main prize in the Animation Avantgarde competition, and Huber was also honored as Best Director.
In 2021, filming began in the Eifel region on Huber's first feature film, "Ein schöner Ort" ("A Good Place"). This idiosyncratic village study premiered in August 2023 in the international competition of the Locarno Film Festival, where it won both the Golden Leopard for Best Performance and the award for Best Emerging Director. At Film Festival Cologne 2023, the drama received the NRW Award, and at Filmfest Hamburg it was honored with the Hamburg Producer Award. The film was released in German cinemas in November 2025.