Frieder Wittich, born 1974 in Stuttgart, already worked as a camera assistant for the Sat.1 TV channel while he still attended high school. In 1997 and 1998, he co-wrote the screenplays to the episodes "Auge um Auge" and "Mordlust" of the TV crime series "Ein starkes Team" together with Krystian Martinek and Neidhardt Riedel. In 1988, Wittich started to study film direction at Munich's Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) and successfully graduated from HFF six years later. His collegiate short film "Mosquito" won the Reel Frontier Award at the Arizona Festival, and his short film "Opus" won an award at the Bayreuth Film Festival. Furthermore, Wittich directed several commercials for well-known companies like McDonald's or Astra Beer from 2003 on. In 2009, Frieder Wittich finished his first full-length feature film, the coming-of-age story "13 Semester" ("13 Semesters").

Despite positive reviews and solid box office returns did it take six years before Wittich presented his next feature at the 2015 Munich Film Festival: The light-hearted road movie "Becks letzter Sommer" revolves around a music teacher who embarks on an eventful trip to Turkey accompanied by his best friend and a musical prodigy.