Born in the south of Germany, Anna gathered her first filmmaking experience through various workshops and internships with production companies in Berlin, London and Dublin. From 2007 – 2010 she studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where she made several shorts and discovered her passion for documentary filmmaking. In 2010 she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and from 2011 – 2018, she was a student of documentary film at the University of TV and Film in Munich where she graduated with the documentary feature Lovers of the Night.