Born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1984, he studied film and history of art in Berlin and Paris before taking a degree in directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). He has worked as an assistant for Werner Schroeter and translated and published a series of film criticism texts by French philosopher Jacques Rancière. His DFFB graduation film, "Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes", was selected for the 2017 Perspektive Deutsches Kino and went on to screen and win several awards at festivals around the world. His screenplay for "Blutsauger" has already won the German Screenplay Award and a Berlinale Kompagnon Fellowship.

Quelle: 71. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Katalog)