MICHAEL KRUMMENACHER (Director & Co-Writer)

Michael Krummenacher was born in 1985 in Schwyz (CH). After shooting his first short films during high school in 2005 he attended the Filmmaking Intensive Workshop at Columbia University in New York City. In 2006 he began studying directing for cinema and TV-film at the University of Television and Film Munich. He met Peter Baranowski, with whom he established the company Passanten Filmproduktion in 2009. In the same year Krummenacher shot his first feature film HINTER DIESEN BERGEN, which premiered at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. His short film WENN ALLE DA SIND was nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2012. SIBYLLE is his diploma film at HFF München.

ANNE RATTE POLLE  (Sibylle)

Anne Ratte Polle, born in Cloppenburg, mainly works as an actress in large theatre productions. The utterly versatile actress has been living in Berlin since 2005. There she‘s had guest performances in the German Theatre, the Maxim Gorki Theatre and the Hebbel Theatre und was a part of the permanent ensemble of the Volksbühne. She became known to movie-goers with her roles played in WILLENBROCK (2005) by Andreas Dresen and in NIGHT SONGS (2004) by Romuald Karmakar.

GWENDOLIN STOLZ (Producer)

Gwendolin Stolz was born in 1983 in Tübingen. She received her diploma in cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim. During her studies she gained practical experience in the film industry. After her studies she worked as a marketing assistant for X-Verleih Berlin, before being accepted at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2010. At the time being she is developing her first feature film as a director.

SILVIA WOLKAN (Writer)

Silvia Wolkan was born in 1980 in Oberstdorf. After her baccalaureate in 2000 she studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She began studying scriptwriting in 2006 at the University of Television and Film Munich. SIBYLLE is the second script for a feature film after HINTER DIESEN BERGEN resulting from collaboration with Michael Krummenacher.

JAKOB WIESSNER (Director of Photography)

Jakob Wiessner was born in 1984 in Munich. There he studied art history, before beginning his camera studies at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2006. Since 2008 he‘s been working as an assistant and DoP for the Belgian video artist David Claerbout. SIBYLLE ist the second feature film after HINTER DIESEN BERGEN which Wiessner has created together with Michael Krummenacher.