Andreas Coerper, born 1955 in Düsseldorf, studied at Hamburg"s Akademie der Bildenden Künste and worked as a freelance artist after his graduation. Over the years, he repeatedly came into contact with film. Thus, he returned to this medium after he had turned away from visual arts and mainly worked for TV productions on satirical formats like the NDR TV show "Extra 3". There, he collaborated with artists like Helge Schneider, Wigald Boning, or Martin Sonneborn, and developed his own particular brand of satirical short films that were not least influenced by his most individual style as a speaker of voice-overs.

As regards content, Coerper specialized on medium-length TV documentary films that portray German middle-class everyday life in a gently satirical way. "Heimatkunde", his first film for the movie screen, worked in a quite similar fashion: in the film, he accompanies Martin Sonneborn, editor in chief of the satirical magazine "Titanic", on his walking tour along the city limits of Berlin. With "Die Partei", a documentary film about the political party of the same name that was originally set up by "Titanic", Coerper finished his second feature-length film for the movie screen in 2009. He co-directed the film together with his partner Susanne Müller under the abbreviated name SMAC.