Benjamin Kahlmeyer was born in 1982 in Marburg. After graduating from high school and completing his civilian service and a stay abroad in France, he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2003-2005. He went on to work at the community radio station Offener Kanal Berlin, supervising the youth editorial team. This was followed by a succession of internships at various commercial and feature film production companies, where he gained experience as a sound mixer, production assistant and codirector. It was also around this time that he first started to create and develop his own video work and film music projects. From 2005, he studied Documentary Film at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. He graduated in 2011 with his documentary "Meanwhile in Mamelodi".

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