Erek Kuehn was born in 1974 (Suhl, Germany) and finished studying Design at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar in 2000. While studying he shot a lot of live action short films, which were mentored by Günter Reisch. After being 2nd assistant director to Joseph Orr and Christian Wagner, he joined the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg as assistant lecturer, and did finally set up for himself by creating "Randlicht Film" in 2004.