Jörn Staeger was born in 1965 in Berlin. In 1991 he graduated in visual communications at the University of Arts in Hamburg. In 1994-1995 he was awarded with the DAAD Chicago/Illinois scholarship and the scholarship of the cabinet of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. In 2003 he gave courses at the University of Arts Hamburg. Currently, Staeger lives and works as a cameraman, filmmaker and painter in Frankfurt am Main.