Philipp Käßbohrer, born in 1983 in Biberach an der Riss, was trained as a media designer for image and sound at SWR before studying Film and Television at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
In 2012, together with Matthias Murmann, he founded the production company btf (bildundtonfabrik) which is based in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.. As a showrunner, executive producer, writer, and director, he has realized a wide range of projects with btf, including fictional series, TV shows, documentaries, films, art projects, commercials, and music videos.
btf’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including 13 prestigious Grimme Awards and 11 German Television Awards. Recent productions include the fourth season of the Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), the fiction series Späti (ZDFneo) and Perfekt Verpasst (Amazon Prime Video), TV shows such as Die Carolin Kebekus Show (ARD), MAITHINK X (ZDFneo), and Neo Ragazzi (ZDFneo), as well as the documentary FC Hollywood (ZDF).
