Konrad Schlaich, Jahrgang 1995, wuchs in Berlin auf und studierte an der FU Berlin und an der American University of Beirut Anthropologie und kam bereits früh mit Film in Kontakt. Sein Interesse liegt beim Dokumentarfilm sowie hybriden Formen von Fiktion und Dokumentarischen. Er studiert seit 2020 Regie an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg.

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Konrad Schlaich was born in 1995 in Berlin, where he resides today. He is a director working in the fields of both documentary and fiction and will graduate from Filmuniversität Babelsberg shortly. In his childhood, he spent his days in a video store owned by his parents, where he learned a lot about the world of cinema from an early age. His professional trajectory started in journalism, where he focused on video journalism as part of a collective of activist filmmakers.
During his studies in Communication and Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Konrad movedto Beirut as an exchange student where he met artists and filmmakers working on experimental documentaries, inspiring him to get involved in documentary filmmaking himself.
Later, he entered Filmuniversität Babelsberg to study directing and he began to explore both the
worlds of documentary fiction filmmaking.