Jonatan is an independent filmmaker and animator. He was born in Göttingen, Germany in 1987. He is studying Visual Communication at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach. Since 2014 he is a guest student at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the animation class.
His animated short „MAISON SONORE“ was screened on a large number of international festivals, like the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2012. The film “ECHO” by Merlin Flügel, which Schwenk made the sound design for, had it’s world premiere on the 63. Berlinale (2013). Schwenk also animated the stop-motion-sequences for the Wanimated short “THE OLD MAN AND THE BIRD” (directed by Dennis Stein-Schomburg), which made it into the official selection at the Berlinale in 2015.