Worked as a Bicycle Tour Guide, Gardner, Construction Worker, Office Assistant, Steel-Mill Worker, Radio Program Director and studied Political Science before he started as an actor at the local theater company in Tirol.
Was lucky to get through the shoot of his second feature film The Silent Mountain (2014) after a lightning strike hit the set (nine people were injured), a mud slide pushed an entire battle field set into a nearby river and then his star and protagonist, who is in nearly every scene, got sick.
Takes part of the directors programme at the American Film
Institute, Los Angeles.