Yatri N. Niehaus was born in Berlin and has since lived in numerous places around the world. In 2009 he applied with his film AnneLaureExposée to the University of Television and Film in Munich, where he has since been studying in the class of cinema and television feature film. There he made two short feature films, most recently the 30-minute mystery thriller Karim. His filmography also includes computer-animated in-house productions as well as commercials. In 2012, he was awarded the Hofbräu Trophy at the International Festival of Film Schools for his commercial Immer Sonntags and was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation. In 2013, Yatri Niehaus received the Climate Protection Award of the City of Dortmund for a commercial aimed at raising awareness for water consumption. Yatri’s first feature film, the documentary Stella Polaris Ulloriarsuaq, premiered at the LA Film Festival and won the Unesco World Heritage Award. He now lives back in Berlin, and has expanded his filmography to include dance films, commercials, and music videos. In 2017, his text Erben was presented in the reading Die Gelegenheit at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.  In 2020/21 Yatri N. Niehaus participated in the writing workshop Unconventional Signs – neue postmigrantische Theatertexte hosted by Ballhaus Naunynstraße and wrote his first theater text Abdruckkörper. The production is his debut as a theater director; the production opened the 2021 series Unconventional Signs – new post-migrant theater.