Marcin Wierzchowski

Poland

Marcin Wierzchowski

director, producer

Director and producer Marcin Wierzchowski was born in Warsaw in 1984. His parents fled Poland and emigrated to Germany due to the civil war-like conditions in their home country. At the time, Marcin was so small that he fit in his mother’s handbag.
Wierzchowski quit school at 17 and began working in a video store, where he watched countless films and decided to become a director. In 2012, he returned to school to earn his Abitur and subsequently began studying philosophy in Frankfurt am Main. In 2013, he moved to the Kunsthochschule Mainz to study fine arts with a focus on film under Professor Harald Schleicher.
He now lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Warsaw. As a director, author, video artist, set designer, and producer, he is currently working on his first works of fiction while