Born in 1993 and raised near Hamburg, Sebastian started working as an actor from the age of 8. As such, he gained professional set experience early on. There, he discovered his enthusiasm for film and with his first films he won the Hamburg Young Talent Film Award and was nominated for the German Young Talent Film Award. In 2014 Sebastian started studying feature film directing at the HFF Munich and was able to deepen his filmmaking experience as an assistant director for cinema and television and a a freelance editor.