Stefan completed two semesters of law before studying production in the feature film department at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and graduating with honors. As a GWFF and VGF scholarship holder, Stefan also studied at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He is an alumnus of the European TV Drama Series Lab and the Showrunner Exchange, where he was mentored by renowned creator/writer/showrunners Glen Mazzara, Peter Blake and Craig Wright. In 2000, he founded Dreamtool Entertainment. Since then, the company's motto has been: "Teamwork makes the dream work". Dreamtool's first TV movie, the multi-generational comedy "Prince Charming - My First Boyfriend, Mother and me", was nominated for the prestigious Adolf Grimme Award and won two German Television Awards as well as a Bavarian Television Award. Dreamtool then left its mark with TV event movies with budgets of up to eight million euros, such as "Bermuda Triangle North Sea", "Kung Fu Mom - Agent with Kids" and "Heroes". The RTL treasure hunt trilogy "The Charlemagne Code", "The Spear of Destiny" and "The Hunt for the Amber Room" was even shown in Chinese cinemas. TV dramas such as "Shadow Kids", "Another Life Twice", "Neither Fish, Nor Fowl", as well as feature films such as "Sisters", "Heimatfilm", "Porno!Melo!Drama!" and the English-language WWII drama "Joy Division" are proof of Dreamtool's genre diversity. In the cinema, Dreamtool attracted attention with the children's book adaptation "Little Miss Dolittle", which sold half a million tickets in Germany and was distributed by SONY. Whether it's the award-winning ZDFneo series "Summertime Madness", the ZDF two-parter "Hotel Barcelona", the "Barcelona Crime" series for ARD or Annette Frier as an autistic woman in the ZDF series "Ella Schoen" - Dreamtool always delivers successful and compelling content. The multi-part, award-winning film adaptation of Siegfried Lenz's bestseller "The Turncoat", directed by Oscar-winner Florian Gallenberger and starring Jannis Niewoehner, Rainer Bock, Bjarne Maedel, Katharina Schüttler, Ulrich Tukur and many others, can be streamed on ARD and has been watched by over 23 million viewers linearly and online since its premiere. Dreamtool recently landed a brilliant series launch on ZDF with "Dr. Nice". Twelve more 90-minute episodes of the series are currently in production and development. Dreamtool is part of the Beta Group from industry veteran Jan Mojto. "We are here to entertain — your heart and your brain" Stefan outlines the company philosophy.