Katharina Zeitler was born in Munich, Germany in 1979. After an internship she studied from 2000 to 2003 at the Academy of Photographic Design in Munich (Fachakademie für Fotodesign).From 2003 to 2005 she lived in New York, where she pursued her work and her own projects.
After two scholarships in India and in Chile she moved to Berlin, where she is currently working as a freelance photographer.