Born in Munich, Germany in 1980, he worked as a gardener in 1998/99 on the Lochdochart Estate in Scotland before completing his school-leaving exam in Munich in 2001. From 1999 to 2011 he was a lighting technician at the Bavarian State Opera whilst concurrently studying documentary film at the University for Television and Film Munich from 2003. He then worked as an advertising producer before taking up a degree in Physics at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2013. He has been working as a freelance producer, screenwriter and director since 2014.

Source: 68. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)