Stephane Riethauser was born in 1972 in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a
law degree from the University of Geneva. Over the years, he has been
working as a teacher, gay activist, photographer, editor, journalist,
translator, before becoming a television director. He is the author of
A Visage Decouvert, a photography book about coming out (Ed. Slatkine,
2000), numerous documentaries and reports for Swiss Radio Television
RTS (2003-2008) and "Le Temps Suspendu" (Frozen in time), 2007, a
documentary about Swiss painter Marius Borgeaud. Since 2009, he lives
and works as an independent filmmaker in Berlin. He is about to release
his first fiction short film "Prora".