Stephan Anspichler started his career training as a tourism businessman; however, his personal interests have always been guided by the word and image. Parallel to his formal training in business school, he worked as a free-lance writer for several regional and national newspapers, as well as for specialist magazines. After graduating, he decided to make the German Abitur, which gave him the opportunity to explore the world of theatre. He worked closely with the theatre director Didi Danquart, as well as the opera director Philipp Himmelmann, who inspired Stephan's own development as a director.

He attended film school in New York and there he began to realise his creative potential: his graduating film "York Street 1929'" has been accepted into a number of well-known film festivals and received awards in the Best Direction and Best Screenplay categories. Along with his other short film projects, including "Baton Boy", Anspichler has since shot a documentary about Lotti Latrous on the Ivory Coast in West Africa. He is currently involved in pre-production on a feature film and a further two documentaries.