Born 1983 near Hamburg/Germany. David made an apprenticeship as media clerk at Studio Hamburg Production. From 2008 to 2013 followed the film production studies at Berlin Film school dffb, including the production of many shorts, for example SUCCESS by Micah Magee and BERLIN TROIKA by Andrej Gontcharov. Alongside he worked as producer in advertisements just as line producer and production manager for several productions, for example at the German shooting days of SLEEPING SICKNESS by Uli Köhler and the latest feature film WESTERN by Valeska Grisebach, which was shot in Bulgaria.

He is producer of DUST ON OUR HEARTS by Hanna Doose, that won in 2012 The First Steps Award just as the Directing, Production and Audience Award at Munich Film Festival. WHISPERS BEHIND THE WALL by Grzegorz Muskala is his graduate film at the dffb, that received a nomination for the Grimme Prize and a nomination for the No Fear Award for his work as producer. He is one producer of Sebastian Schipper's VICTORIA and the joint work on the silver bear and German film award winner was the start of the partnership with Sebastian at Missing Link Films, where he acted as producer and managing partner. After the joint follow-up project, the German-Franco co-production ROADS, he joined Komplizen Film.

Since 2016 David has been a member of the Producers Network ACE (Atelier du Cinéma Européen).