Andreas Hykade was born in 1968 in Altoetting. From 1988-1990 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, followed by studies at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy from 1992- 1995. Since 1992 he has been working as a freelance filmmaker and since 2000 as a professor of Animation at the School of Arts and Design Kassel. His films include: "The King is Dead" (1990), "We Lived in Grass" (1995), "Ring of Fire" (2000), "Tom & the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam & Honey" (series, since 2003), "The Runt" (2006), "The Bunjes" (2007), and "Love & Theft" (2010), among others.

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