2008-2015 Art History and Philosophy Studies at Free University Berlin
2013 Dffb workshop autobiographical storytelling with Ross McElwee
2007 Participant at Berlinale Talent Campus
2004 International Intensive Training in Non Violent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg, Switzerland
2000 Directing Actors Workshop with Judith Weston, Amsterdam
1997-2003 Film Studies at Filamakademie Baden-Württemberg, Diploma as Documentary Director
1996 Internship at Photographer André Rival
1996 Sculpturing Workshop at Free Art School Berlin
1996 Acting at "backstage", youth group of Schauspielhaus Hamburg
1995-1996 Apprenticeship as Carpenter
1995 Final Exams at Gymnasium Steglitz, Berlin
Rewards
2020 "Prädikat besonders wertvoll" for Free State Midpoint
2003 Best Student Film Award „Vassilis Maros“ for „Country No.1 - Fall 2001 in New York“
Kalamata International Filmfestival
2002 Nominee First Steps Award with „Country No.1 – Fall 2001“
2000 Bavarian Theatre Prize for „Pnima – In the Inner“ by Claus Guth for which I created
the Stagevideo
Fundings (selection)
2019 Cultural Foundation of Schleswig-Holstein for the exhibition accompanying the Film „Free State
Midpoint“
2010 Cultural Foundation of Schleswig-Holstein for the photo art book „bei Tante Herta –
Requiem für eine Hafenkneipe“
2018 Film Workshop Kiel of the Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Development Funding
for the film „Cut the Line“
2015 Film Workshop Kiel of the Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Production Fundin
for the film „Free State Midpoint“
2014 Film Workshop Kiel of the Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Development Funding
for the film „Free State Midpoint“
2012 Film Workshop Kiel of the Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Presentation Funding
for the filmclub M.1 Extra
2001 Media- and Filmsociety Baden-Württemberg Production Funding for „Country No.1 –
Fall 2001 in New York“ assiciated to „Young Documentary Film“ of SWR
Work as Director (selection)
Freistaat Mittelpunkt, Feature Documentary, 79 min, Moon Jar Film Production, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, 2019
Dorf of Sound , Documentation, 45 min, Live-Entry for the 255?1 Village Magazine of Hohenlockstedt, World Premier in November at the Arthur Boskamp-Foundation, 2019
Film Wanderungen, Interactive Documentary Form, 150 min, produced by Phenomen Berlin Filmproduction, Co-Director, guest at Perspektive German Cinema at Berlinale, 2018
Dorf of Sound , Documentation, 45 min, Live-Entry for the 255?1 Village Magazine of Hohenlockstedt, World Premier in November at the Arthur Boskamp-Foundation
Arte Short Circuit - Fall of the Wall, 9min, Magazine-Entry by Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck,
Kontrast Film, Arte, 2019
Was wurde aus Jugolawien, 45min, Documentation by Gloriana Severdija, produzed by
Randale Film, RBB and the Federal Foundation Aufarbeitung of the SED-Diktatur
Freistaat Mittelpunkt, Feature Documentary, 79 min, Moon Jar Film Production, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, 2019
The Bookshelf, Video-Installation, von Nicola Brandt, Swakopmund Namibia, 2018
Softness of Bodies", Feature Film, 90 min, von Jason Brady, produced by ZAK Film, Role: Policeman
Premiere at Los Angeles International Filmfestival, 2018
Fließende Grenze, Short Fiction, 15 min, by Joana Vogdt, produzed by Kinescope, Role:
Frontier Soldier, Premiere at Hofer Filmtage 2019
Nachtbesuch, Short Fiction, 15 min, by Joana Vogdt, produced by Miko Films, Role:
Taxidriver, 2018