Stephan Burchardt was born in Goerlitz, Germany in 1983. He found his cinematic footing as a child playing around and shooting with his grandmother’s analogue camera.

Stephan continued to build his knowledge at the Film and Fernsehakademie Mitteldeutschland before moving on to attend the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.

In 2006 he officially started working as a DoP for various TV and feature films. At this time he was able to truly showcase and hone his unique voice. Stephan won the “German Cinematography Award” for the Conrad series in 2011 and received the “Kodak Camera Award” for his works in 2012.

He successfully completed his studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg with a degree in cinematography in 2013 while already having an enormous body of work.

Today, he is represented by the well-known agency “BITE Management” and works around the globe as a freelance DoP and photographer for established commercial agencies and production companies for which he shot several features and TV series like the amazon prime originals “DEUTSCHLAND 89”, the first German NETFLIX original series “SKYLINES” as well the first Austrian NETFLIX series “TOTENFRAU” and just finished the first German Disney+ series “SAM a Saxon” about the first black polive officer in the former GDR, to just name a few.