Konstantin Ferstl
Konstantin Maria Ferstl, born in 1983 in the Bavarian Altmühltal, lives in Munich, Rome and in the Hallertau. As a descendant of sailors and tobacco planters, he has a hereditary predisposition to melancholy and addictive behavior. Studied directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich, his debut film Trans Bavaria, a road movie in a stolen butcher's van, was released in 2012 and won several awards. For the essay film Finis Terrae with philosopher Alain Badiou, a cinematic search for the lost utopia, he shot in over twenty countries around the world - including North Korea. He was scholarship holder of the Drehbuchwerkstatt München as well as the Writing Workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation. For the manuscript of Die blaue Grenze (Rowohlt Berlin 2023) he received the Literaturstipendium der Landeshauptstadt München in 2019.