马莱科·韦格纳，Born in Borken in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia in 1983, she studied audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and documentary film directing at the New School in New York. She began making her own films as a writer, director and editor in 2005. In 2012, she founded the Petrolio production cooperative in Cologne with Hannes Lang and Carmen Losmann and has also been working as a producer ever since.