After graduating from high school in 2013, Moritz first worked on various television and cinema film sets as well as in child psychiatry. The following summer he then began studying psychology in Düsseldorf, to which he staged various theater evenings and short films in parallel and finally also worked therapeutically in a clinic. The master's degree was followed by working as an assistant director and internships in TV and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as well as his application for the study of feature film direction at the HFF Munich in 2021. Moritz also works as a freelance filmmaker/videographer.