Europa, Jupiter. Until then... movies.

Born 1974, Peter wanted to become an astronaut, but at the age of eight a movie forced him to become a filmmaker instead: STAR WARS. Carefree about his set future, school (computer science) was a breeze. Along the way he discovered the darker corners of film an literature: H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and James Cameron were closer to him than any bits and bytes.

At university he devoured some semesters of physics and astronomy to graduate later in real estate management (project thesis “Infrastructure of future spaceports”) and private banking (diploma thesis “Low budget film financing in Austria”). During his studies he shot the short film satire ARAFAT VS SHARON, the atmospheric mindfuck horror SKRYPT and wrote the screenplay of his debut feature, the survival horror comedy ON EVIL GROUNDS, a co-production of Viennese Novotnyfilm and  his newly founded KOP11, supported by the state of Lower Austria.

2007, after some awards (best director, best film) and 20 film festivals, ON EVIL GROUNDS - - showcasing his trademark style and vision -- had left a lasting impression with horror fans and festivals around the globe that Hollywood was quick to recognize his full potential and he ended up signing with Zero Gravity Management in Los Angeles.

In 2009 Peter switched management and was among the talents who rounded up the initial client roster of then newly launched management company Shoreline Entertainment Management. After its closure in 2013, Peter followed his longtime manager, Björn Puckler, and has since been with Puckler Media & Consult, an international consulting and management company.

2010 he was invited to FOCAL Production Value (Budgeting Workshop, Oslo, Norway) and Siggraph Conference (Los Angeles, USA) to showcase the 3D-previsualisation of his fantastic action-romance screenplay UNTITLED LOVESTORY, whose development was funded and supported by the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI), Vienna Filmfund and the state of Lower Austria.

2012, funded by the Austrian Film Institute, his body horror screenplay WE ARE CHINESE was invited to take part in the EKRAN master class at  Wajda Filmschool (Warsaw, Poland; tutored by director legends Alexander Sokurov, Wojciech Marczewski). He also attended Digital Strategies (financing, marketing & distribution seminar, Erich Pommer Institute) and held workshops about filmmaking/screenwriting/previs (ITSEM Universidad Mexico, University of St. Pölten, Austria).

Since 2014 Peter has frequently been collaborating with Endemol Shine Beyond (among others the Hyundai Youtube and Techniker Krankenkasse campaigns) and in 2015 he started developing the French-German crime series BORDERZONE and was part of Holger Karsten Schmidt's writing team developing the sci-fi series MARS for Lucky Bird Pictures (Germany).

2017 Peter wrote the 10-part mockumentary webseries KING OF WESTBERG (Endemol)  and was co-writer on the 12-part mystery/comedy animation series ANTARKTIKA (UFA Lab) -- both for  Funk (ARD/ZDF). He also wrote and co-directed YOU DIE! for Turtle Entertainment, an esports event promotion clip for the popular game PUBG.

From the end of 2017 and deep into 2021, Peter started to collaborate with Degeto/ARD and has been developing and writing screenplays for the primetime crime series DER AMSTERDAM KRIMI (6 features, Zieglerfilm Köln) and DER BARCELONA KRIMI (1 feature, Dreamtool).

2019 Peter co-created and penned the screenplays for the 6x45min dramedy series SPÄTZLE ARRABBIATA (SWR, Polyphon Pictures) and started devoloping the science fiction series DARKSKY (27Films), an adaption of the novel by German scif-fi writer Bernd Stöhr.

2022 Peter started adapting DIE DJURCEVIC UND IHR METZER, a hilarious crime novel by Austrian bestseller author Thomas Raab. The feature DER METZGER TRAUT SICH is the first in a series of features with Austrian supertar Simon Schwarz as the titular Metzger. Produced by Satel Film for ServusTV.

In 2023 Peter teamed up with Satel Film again and wrote the 10th anniversary feature movie of the popular crime comedy series DIE TOTEN VON SALZBURG for ORF/ZDF.

Peter commutes between Vienna and Cologne and has several German and international projects in various stages of development.

When he isn’t writing or shooting, Peter, who still loves horror and scifi, devours books about physics and artificial intelligence or plunges himself into the weightlessness of the underwater world to satisfy the astronaut boy until he can finally go to space.

Selected festivals of ON EVIL GROUNDS: Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (winner best director and best film), AFFF Amsterdam Fantastic Film Fest (nominated for Silver Melies for best film), Fright Nights Carinthia (winner best film), Fantasia (Montreal, Canada), BIFFF (Brussels, Belgium), Morbido Filmfest (Mexico City), Max Ophüls Festival (Germany), Ravenna Nightmare (Italy). Diagonale (Austria).