Susanna Zdrzałek was born in 1989 in Piekary Śląskie. When she was one year old, she moved with her parents to Germany. As a child she held her own radio broadcasts in her room, and as a thirteen-year-old she began writing for a local newspaper. After her matura exams she started studying journalism and political studies in Dortmund. She was a trainee at the office of the German television ARD in New York and the ARD office in Warsaw, where she later studied and simultaneously worked as a journalist, reporting from various regions in Poland. Zdrzałek was a reporter for the German public television ZDF and a journalism coach in Ghana as well as Shanghai. Currently she is a reporter and editor for the public television WDR. She lives in Düsseldorf. “GRENZE/GRANICA” is her first documentary film.

Filmography:
GRENZE/GRANICA (2015)