Vetter was born to a Turkish father, Cahit Cubuk, and a German mother.[1] After studying in Worms, Buenos Aires and Madrid (with a focus on European Business Management among others) Vetter started working as a trainee at the production company Bavaria Film in Munich and graduated in Media Studies and Practice at the University of Tübingen in 1994. Since 1994 he worked as a freelance editor, writer and director at SDR in Stuttgart, in 1998 he went to SWR in Baden-Baden, to work as a freelance documentary filmmaker for culture and society.
Vetter's autobiographical documentary My Father the Turk (2006) was awarded the Prix Europa for documentaries.[2] In June 2007, his documentary Traders' Dream was released in German cinemas, a global report on the phenomenon eBay, produced in cooperation with Stefan Tolz.[3] Vetters feature documentary The Heart of Jenin, a film about the Palestinian Ismail Khatib, won the German Film Award 2010 for Best Documentary. Upon completion, Vetter founded the Cinema Jenin e. V., which has the goal to rebuild the cinema Jenin in the West bank that has been closed since 1987. Since 2008 Vetter has regularly been travelling to Jenin in order to promote the project; at the same time he made a film about the project, which was presented in 2012.[4] Simultaneously he filmed the SWR documentary Hunger.[5]
Vetter lives in Tübingen with his wife and two children.[citation needed]
Filmography
1998: Hardy B. – Psycho gram of a lifer
1999: Life is wonderful – Former pop singers Leismann now touring through construction markets