René Schröter

Born in 1970 in the Bauhaus and airplane city of Dessau/GDR, grew up in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg area, one of the centers of political, cultural-historical and artistic Reformation. Attending polytechnic high school, the Abitur was rejected, I dreamed of a job with the merchant fleet of the GDR, travel, adventure, foreign cultures... Declined! Did I take my parents' request seriously and learned something decent -Toolmaker-, never practiced the profession, looked for a way to get the study permit, Autumn 89, everything became new, morality, money, society, political system. Collapse!! Rostock or Freiburg im Breisgau, where it didn't matter, just gone... Fribourg...... Orientation, search, capitalism - this is how it feels, lived civics lessons, first contact with analogue photography, built up his own photo laboratory, cool - to tell stories in pictures.
1996 Abitur in Leipzig made up, a Magister in Museology it should be, so that Ostia antiquity discover... everything turned out differently, between the application for a university place and the start of studies, the first photo assignment, that was it!!! Travel, adventure, foreign cultures!!! Why study, the freedom and creativity do not let go of me to this day. 1999 Change from photography to film, focus on documentary work. 2001 founding member of the 3DVA, 2003 founding member of the L_Einwand e.V., various seminars with Michael Eimler and Christoph Hübner. Places like the active Etna or the silence in Spitsbergen, scenic filming with creative colleagues, characters who tell exciting stories, the wildlife in the Cúc Phuong National Park or the frozen cold on the Aragaz, are combined with high-quality pictures, the films are shown, but in the heart remains what never works!!!