Marius Wankel, born in 1996 in Heidelberg, is a drummer and improviser living in Berlin. After growing up within a musical family he started playing the drums and piano at a very young age. After finishing musical Highschool in Munich he began his studies in Jazz Drums at the University of Music in Würzburg and learned from Bill Elgart and Bastian Jütte. Through the years he archived several awards in youth competitions Jugend  musiziert and Jugend jazzt and was awarded twice by the HfM Würzburg. In 2018 he moved to Berlin to continue his studies at the Jazz Institut Berlin, which he completed in 2021. Since then he has been an active member of the jazz and experimental music scene in Berlin, playing in numerous national and international projects and received the German Jazz Prize in 2025 as part of the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra. Furthermore he is co-organizing the concert series Future Bash, which was awarded with the APPLAUS award in 2025.
Through his career he has already collaborated with artists such as Robyn Schulkowsky, Kit Downes, Myka9, Lotte Anker, Tony Buck, Andrea Parkins, Okkyung Lee, Toby Delius, Gerald Cleaver, Philipp Gropper, Robert Landfermann, Daniel Derro Regan, Roy Nathanson and Isaiah Barr.