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➥ ABOUT
With 3+ decades of experience as production designer, creative director, art director, concept artist, cinematographer, set designer and gaffer, I have worked on some of the most famous and successful German animation movies, such as Heidi, Maya the Bee, Mia and Me, Laura's Star and Lars The Little Polar Bear, which have garnered numerous international awards, including the German Film Prize, the Grimme Prize, an Emmy Award nomination and the Gold Panda Award.
After leaving school and my electrical engineering studies at the TFH Berlin, my great fascination immediately turned to live action film, where I have enjoyed working for a decade as a camera assistant, property master, and gaffer for documentaries, well-known German TV series, features and news. With all this fundamental experience and my 5-year studies at the Private Art School Posin in Berlin, I left the live action sets nearly three decades ago and dedicated my passion and knowledge to animated film.
Ever since my first live-action film projects as a gaffer and camera assistant, I have been passionate about light, cinematography and environments. Up to this day, I love creating the most unique moments with very special light and shadow.
As a production designer, I was mostly also the art director. And so I have been fortunate to work with many great international teams in Europe, Australia and Asia, leading them remotely or on location and being inspired by them to realize my artistic vision from initial concepts to the final movie.
Currently I work as Production Designer and Art Director for Flying Bark Productions/Australia.
Since 2023 I have been an elected member of the German Film Academy.
Outside of film, I mainly work artistically with land art. I create temporary works that are usually exposed to the tides and often disappear again after just a few hours. So the process of creation and impermanence is in the foreground.
➥ Filmography • CGI
2023 - 2024 • Feature Film Project in development
2022 - 2023 • Flamingo Flamenco • Feature Film
2021 - 2023 • Heidi, Rescue of the Lynx • Feature Film
2021 • My Freaky Family • Feature Film
2021 • Bongo • TV season 1
2021 • Maya the Bee • The golden Orb • Feature Film
2021 • Tales from outer Suburbia • TV trailer
2021 • Canterville Ghost • Feature Film
2021 • Laura's Star • Live Action Feature Film
2019 - 2020 • Mia and Me • TV season 4
2021 • Mona Du • TV Pitch
2017 - 2022 • Mia and Me, Hero of Centopia • Feature Film
2017 - 2021 • Mystery Museum • TV season 1
2017 - 2018 • Lumi and Bo • TV shorts, clips, videos
2017 • Luis and the Aliens • Feature Film
2016 - 2017 • Ganesha • TV season 1
2016 - 2019 • The Worry Eaters • TV season 1
2015 - 2017 • Sherazade, the Untold Stories • TV season 1
2015 - 2016 • Mia and Me • TV season 3
2015 - 2016 • Maya the Bee 2 • Feature Film
2014 • Princess Emmy • Feature Film
2014 • Elly and the Ghostly Ghost Train • Feature Film
2014 • Mullewap, Eine Schöne Schweinerei • Feature Film
2012 - 2014 • Maya the Bee • Feature Film
2011 - 2013 • No-Eard Bunny an Two Eared Chick • Feature Film
2009 - 2010 • Laura‘s Star and the Dream Monster • Feature Film
2007 - 2009 • Laura‘s Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian • Feature Film
2005 - 2007 • Little Dodo • Feature Film
2005 - 2007 • Little Dodo • TV season 1 + 2
2003 - 2004 • Lars The Little Polar Bear • Feature film
2002 - 2003 • Laura’s Star • Feature film
2002 • School of Vampires • TV season 1
2000 - 2002 • Happily N'ever After • Feature Film
2001 • Moorhuhn Spots • TV spots
2000 • The Gnarfs • TV season 1
2000 • Nena • Pitch
2000 • Sherazade • TV Trailer
1999 - 2000 • The Abrafaxe • Feature Film
1998 - 1999 • Simsalagrimm • TV season 1 + 2
1998 • Werner • Volles Rooäää!!! •Feature Film
➥ Filmography • Live Action
1995 • Peter Lustig • Mittendrin • season 8
1995 • Nach Ihnen Herr Mandelbaum - George Tabori in Auschwitz • live action Feature
1995 • Frech wie Rudi • season 1 + 2
1994 • Peter Lustig • Mittendrin • season 6
1990 • Schimanski • Tatort • Unter Brüdern • Feature Film
1989 - 1998 • SFB Berlin • Feature Film • Documentary • News
