Born in 1971 in Berlin. Studied political science and Eastern European studies at the Freie Universität Berlin as well as film and television economics at the College of Film and Television HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1993 he founded his first production company Memphis productions where he produced and directed short films and documentaries. In 1997 he founded the directors label „grube & dierks“ together with partner Uwe Dierks and continued to direct documentaries. In 1999 together with partners Andrea Thilo and Uwe Dierks he is co-founder of BOOMTOWNMEDIA, where he is responsible as head of development and production and continues working as author and diretor of several documentaries and music-programs. For his last cinema film RHYTHM IS IT!, he received the German Film Award 2005 for best documentary and the Bayerischer Filmpreis 2004.

Born on 5th June 1967 in Bensberg near Cologne, he learned to play the piano, saxophone and percussion
and to use the synthesiser for composing at the age of 5.

1980 ‘Sternklang’ (Star Sound) and his first concert appearance, together with his father,
the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen

1981 ‘Donnerstag aus Licht’ (Tuesday made of Light) at the Opera in Milan, likewise with his father
1986 ‘A’ levels and concert appearances with his father throughout the world

1992/94 together with Karlheinz Stockhausen he produced electronic music for two operas from the LIGHT cycle, before finishing working with his father in 1996

Since 1982 co-operation with his brother Markus in various ensembles (KAIROS / APARIS / POSSIBLE WORLDS); many CDs under labels like EMI; ECM, LARGO; music for drama and films as well as two
commissions from the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne

KLAUS WALLENDORF gewann mit 16 Jahren den Bundeswettbewerb »Jugend musiziert«. Über verschiedene Stationen in Deutschland (z. B. als Solohornist beim Bayerischen Staatsorchester) und in der Schweiz (dort als Solohornist des Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) kam er im Jahr 1980 als festes Mitglied zu den Berliner Philharmonikern. Daneben musiziert Klaus Wallendorf bereits mehr als 25 Jahre im Consortium Classicum. Seit 1985 Ensemblemitglied von German Brass, bestimmt er dessen Konzertauftritte als Hornist und Conférencier wesentlich mit. Außerdem betreut er die Berliner Philharmoniker und einige ihrer Kammermusikensembles als »Gelegenheitsliterat, Gebrauchslyriker, Moderator und halboffizieller Entertainer«.

Photojournalist and filmmaker born in the last century, he is now living in Zürich.
Photo-stories about Nicaragua and Beirut, the deforestation on Borneo and feuding tribes in northern Cambodia. Books about the revolution in Nicaragua, the life of child prostitutes in the Philippines, the Yakuza (the Japanese Mafia) and numerous other publications in the form of picture books.

For years a member of the photo-agency Magnum. His photos have appeared in magazines including Life Magazine, National Geographic, Stern, Geo, Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent Magazine, and Time.

In 1988 on travelling through West Africa he came for the first time into contact with the mysterious power of voodoo and met one of Africa’s top voodoo priests.

Four years later he produced a photo-story about voodoo in Africa for Geo magazine. This led to regular trips to Benin and to a continual documentation of events with a film camera. Beside the series of photos and an exhibition, there arose at the same time an experimental documentary film ‘Voodoo – Mounted by the Gods’ in co-operation with Wim Wenders.

Honoured with the ROBERT CAPPA AWARD | CP Award
New York Film Festival AWARD IN GOLD 1998
New York Film Festival AWARD IN SILVER 1997