Mario Brand was born in 1973 in a small town in Germany and grew up in an even smaller village. After school he studied a bit of science of theatre. Not coming to an end with that, he started working in a cinema and later on as a leader of the film projectionists. Another try: in 2010 he started to study "Photography and Media" at the University of applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany. In 2016 he finished his studies with the series "The Vile Maxim" earning a Bachelor Degree.