Thomas Stuber was born in 1981 in Leipzig, where he also grew up.

After completing several internships and working in the film industry, he began studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2004, graduating in 2011 with a diploma in Media/Directing for the Screen.

In 2006, he won the Promotional Award of the Württemberg Film Industry for his short film Es geht uns gut. His 60-minute third-year film Teenage Angst premiered at the Berlinale in 2008. The film received the award for Best German Newcomer Film at the International Student Film Festival Sehsüchte.

His graduation film, the black-and-white short Of Dogs and Horses, was nominated for the First Steps Award, won the German Short Film Award, and received the Silver Student Academy Award (Student Oscar) for Best Foreign Narrative Film. The screenplay was based on a short story by Clemens Meyer. Together with Meyer, he went on to co-write the screenplays for Herbert and In the Aisles.

A Heavy Heart, Stuber’s first full-length feature film, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won three Lolas at the 2016 German Film Awards, including Best Film: Silver. In the Aisles had its world premiere in the Competition section of the 2018 Berlinale, was shown at numerous international festivals, and won the German Film Award for Best Actor.

Thomas Stuber also works in television. The Tatort episode Verbrannt, which he directed, was shown in numerous cinemas as a pre-premiere before its first broadcast in 2015 and won the German Television Crime Award. His TV film Ein Mann unter Verdacht premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2016. In 2020, Thomas Stuber directed all episodes of the Sky mystery-horror series Hausen.