Stefan Reichmann was born in 1951 in Rübenau, Erzgebirge. In 1973, he moved to Berlin and began studies at the Berlin University of Arts in 1976. Since 1981, he has been working as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. From 1986 to 1988, he was a masterstudent at the Academy of Arts of the GDR under the guidance of Werner Stötzer. He lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg.