Benjamin Heisenberg lives in Lucerne as director, author and visual artist. After receiving his degree in sculpture, Heisenberg studied feature film at the HFF in Munich until he graduated with the screenplay for his feature film Schläfer. Heisenberg's films have been invited to the Cannes International Film Festival, the Berlinale Film Festival and have won the Bavarian Film Prize in the category Best Newcomer Director and the first Austrian Film Prize in 2011. Together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutli, he founded the film magazine Revolver in 1998 and is still co-editor of the magazine today. Together with his brother Emanuel Heisenberg and Elisophie Eulenburg, Heisenberg produced an art in architecture work entitled Brienner 45.