Sebastian Voltmer was born in 1981.  He began his studies at the Kassel Arts University in 2000 and then became the student of Professor Floris Neusüss in the photography field as well as of Professors Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein in the grafic design field.  He completed his studies as student of Professor Yana Drouz with the film “The Return of Mars – as close as never before since 56.000 years”. In 2003 he was the holder of a scholarship in fine arts at the Kingston University in London, and in 2004 at the Film Academy of the University of Music and Representative Arts in Vienna.

In 2000, Sebastian Voltmer was the regional and national prize winner of “Jugend forscht” (a youth research program) for his work “Astro-photography as a method to discover comets” and received, as such, an invitation from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

At the age of seventeen, he shot his first film entitled “The face of the MOON” for which he received the film prize for a special tonality at the “Landshuter open competition for film makers under the age of  24”.  Since then, he is devoting much more time at composing film music.  His second film “The face of the SKY” was integrated by the “Bayerischen Rundfunk” (bavarian broadcasting company) in their TV program “Space Night” and was presented by the Co. Telepool/Munich at the International Television Fair in Cannes.  At the end of 2001, he produced in Manchuria the film “Star dust over China – Leonids 2001” which was broadcasted by the Bavarian Television on 15 December 2002.

On 2^nd July 2005 he presented his own compositions (film music) in the german radio of “SR2” on the occasion of the Deep Impact mission (NASA) on comet Tempel 1.

His astro-photographs are being edited since 1996/1997 in numerous magazines, calendars and books, i.e. “Natur & Kosmos”, “Sterne und Weltraum”, “Interstellarum”, “GEO”, “FAZ”, “Sky and Telescope” (USA), “Ciel et Espace” (France).  Since January 2007, he covers the astronomy page of the magazine “Natur & Kosmos”.

His enlarged photographs can be seen at expositions since 1996, such as in 1999 at the “Gebläsehalle des Weltkulturerbes Völklinger Hütte” and at the “Geologischen Museum” in Saarbrücken, in 2002/2003 at the “Planetarium” in Stuttgart, in 2004 at the “Kulturfoyer” of the city Saarbrücken, in 2005/2006 at the “Theodor-Zink-Museum” in Kaiserslautern, in 2007 at the “Eurogress” in Aachen, in 2008 at the gallery “Kulturraum” in the cathedral of Speyer and subsequenly as a super large projection on the house frontages in the frame of the “Kulturnacht der Museen” (the cultural night of museums).



Filmografie

• 1999    Author of the film “Das Gesicht des Mondes” (The face of the moon), winner of the film prize for a special tonality at the “Landshuter Offenen Wettbewerb für Filmemacher unter 24 Jahren (Landshuter open competition for film makers under the age of 24).
  
  
• 2000    Author of the second film “Das Gesicht des Himmels” (The face of the sky), which was presented at the International Film Fair at Cannes by the Co. Telepool Munich.  Purchase of the film by the “Bayerischen Rundfunk” (bavarian broadcasting company) for the program “Space Night”: to be broadcasted on a weekly basis, 12 times per night, over a period of two years (first broadcast scheduled for 1 December 2002).
  
  
• Since 2001     Assistant cameraman for the SR/ARD channel, primarily for the elaboration of “Aktueller Bericht” (The up-to-date report).
  
  
• End 2001   Author of the film “ Sternschnuppen über China – Leoniden 2001” (Shootingstars over China – Leonids 2001), for which the “Bayerische Rundfunk” (bavarian broadcasting company) acquired the broadcasting rights.  The film was broadcasted on 15 December 2002.
  
  
• 2002    Author of a “Piktogramm-Animation” (pictograph animation) for the art project “über zeichen sprechen” (let’s talk about signs) / Kassel Arts University; was shown several times per day at all main railroad stations at the occasion of “Dokumenta 2002”.
  
  
• 2002    Presentation of the instructional films “Sternschnuppen über China” (Star dust over China) and “Das Gesicht des Himmels” (The face of the sky) at the “Kino im Fluss” (movie theatre) in Saarbrücken (“Cinefleuve” festival).
  
  
• July 2003    Author of the experimental film “Flickerfarben – Rotation I und II” (color compilation - rotation I and II) shown at the “Rundgang 2003” (tour) of the Kassel Arts University.
  
  
• 2003    Elaboration of  the real animation of the lunar eclipse for the american movie film “Twilight Men”.
  
  
• 2004    Author of the trailers and composer of the title melody for the broadcasting “Super Nova” (Okto/Vienna).
  
  
• Since 2005    Presenter of the broadcasting “Super Nova” on “Okto” (viennese TV cable 8) and author of several films for “Okto”:  “John Dobson”, “Sidewalk Astronomera”, “Total Solar Eclipse” and “Sternwarte Mariazella” (Mariazella star observatory).
  
  
• 2006    Studio shooting for the TV broadcasting “Narrenschau” (fools show) on “Südwestfernsehen” (southwest television) (approximately three hours) broadcasted on 25 February 2006, length of film 59 minutes and 19 seconds.
  
  
• January 2006    Film incentive for the project “Musikalische Spurensuche in den Alpen” (search for musical trails in the Alps) sponsored by the “Landesmedienanstalt Saar” (regional media institution of the Land Saar) in the amount of 18.000 Euros.
  
  
• November 2006    Production of a HDTV image video for the firm “Sintermetalle Prometheus”.  From 14 to 17 November 2006, presentation of the SMP image videos at the “Electronica 2006” fair in Munich.
  
  
• 2007    Daily movie projections from 31 June to 9 September 2007 of my instructional films in the Brussels Hall of the Eurogress in Aachen at the occasion of the exposition “Geheimnis Weltall” (the mystery of universe).
  
  
• July 2007    Movie projection of the films “John Dobson, the Sidewalk Astronomer” at the occasion of the “Rundgang” (tour) of the Kassel Arts University.
  
  
• June 2008    Super large astro-projection on the frontage of the “Galerie Kulturraum” at the Speyer cathedral in the frame of the “Kulturnacht Speyer” (cultural night in Speyer).
  
  
• February 2009    Presentation of the film “Wiederkehr des Mars” (the return of Mars) as the final exam at the Kassel Arts University, noted with “distinction marks”.