Stéphane Riethauser

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".