Wolfgang Andrä (birth name: Bauer) was born on July 5, 1976 in East Berlin (then GDR). He trained as a radio and television technician until 2000 and then began studying media design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. There, legendary DEFA director Günter Reisch was among his teachers, whose assistant and master student he eventually became. In 2002, Andrä completed a directing internship with Andreas Dresen on the set of "Willenbrock." In the same year, he made his directorial debut with "Nelken für Reisch," a 35-minute documentary about Günter Reisch, on which he collaborated with his future wife Yvonne Andrä. While still studying, the two founded the artists' collective 1meter60 Film together with Stefan Petermann in 2002.  

After graduating in 2007, Andrä worked as a freelance editor for the production company Motionworks and broadcast station MDR; he was also responsible for editing several short films, some of which won awards. In 2008, he completed a directing residency at the German National Theater in Weimar for Matthias Reichwald's production of "Drei Schwestern."   

Also in 2008, Andrä founded the production company 1meter60 Film together with his wife Yvonne and Stefan Petermann. Although the company's focus was and still is on commissioned productions from the cultural, educational and social sectors, the Andräs also realized personal projects and feature films from the very beginning.   

He made his directorial debut with the short film "Nebenan" (2008), a social drama about a young mother who becomes an ear witness to child abuse in the neighbor's apartment. Together with his wife, he made the feature-length documentary "The Other Europeans in: der zerbrochene Klang" (2011), which follows a group of 14 internationally known Jewish and Roma musicians from Moldova. In 2011, 1meter60 Film was awarded the Thuringian Creative Radar by the Thuringian Ministry of Economics as one of the best creative companies in Thuringia. In the same year, Andrä was a fellow of the Thuringian Cultural Foundation.   

In 2013, the couple founded the distribution company 1meter60 Distribution. With "Pauls Schulweg" (2013), Wolfgang Andrä realized a documentary about the eventful first school years of a first grader. In 2015, he received the Grenzgänger scholarship from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Also in 2015, the Andräs began the project "WeimarLeben", a 20-year documentary long-term film series about special personalities from Weimar, from a landlady to a YouTuber to a city-famous senior citizen.   

In 2017, Andrä began work on his first feature-length film, the satire "Heimsuchung," about three neighbors of a row-house settlement who, in light of a new law, negotiate who should take in which refugee. The world premiere took place in 2019.   

In collaboration with Eyal Davidovitch, the Andräs made the documentary "Die jungen Kadyas" (2019), about a transnational choral project in which 25 girls from Israel and Germany are to perform songs together based on poems by Polish author Kadya Molodowsky. Due to the Corona pandemic, the film did not open in theaters until the fall of 2022.