Patrick Vollrath was born in 1985 and raised in a small town in Central Germany. 2005 to 2008 Film and Video Training at ARRI Film & TV in Munich, Germany. He started his career as an editor.
From 2008 to 2015 Bachelor Film Studies in Directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts – Film Academy Vienna in the class of Academy Award and two times Palme D‘Or winner Michael Haneke. Patrick Vollrath has won several national and international prizes for his works. 2011 and 2013 he went to Cannes to be a participant of the Cannes Young Lions Competition.
In 2013 he was a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus.