Gereon Wetzel was born in Bonn, Germany, and earned an M.A. in Archeology from Heidelberg University. He worked as a language teacher and an archeologist in Spain before completing the documentary filmmaking program at the University for Film and Television in Munich, where he currently lives and works as a freelance author and filmmaker. His other documentary credits include HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL (2010), about the German publisher Gerhard Steidl; DIE REPRODUKTIONSKRISE (2008); CASTELLS (2006); and the short SPRECHPROBEN (2004).