Tobias Röttger received a degree in Visual Communication from the University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Diploma), and spent one semester abroad at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Wallpaper* Magazine nominated him as one of the best design graduates, and he was a finalist for the Newcomer award by the German Design Council. For eight years he worked as a designer and art director for HORT, founded by Eike König, in Frankfurt and Berlin. Since 2013 he is running design studio Stahl R. He is a regular jury member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He also guest lectures at workshops, various colleges, and events both in Germany and abroad e.g. University of Art and Design Halle, University of the Arts Bremen, Bauhaus University Dessau and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Since 2018 he has been teaching regularly at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Film Academy Ludwigsburg.