Astrid Schult, born in Bad Naunheim on 23.4.1979, she attended the Waldorf school in Bad Naunheim until 1995, taking her final school examinations at the Rudolf Steiner School in the Berlin district of Dahlem in 1998. She spent a year in Canada in 1998/99, where she worked at a community centre run by Mennonites. She took up studies at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in 2003.

Source: 57. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)