Annette Beger was born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1972. She studied acting at the Berliner Schule für Bühnenkunst, completed a classical voice training in Essen, and earned a diploma in cultural management at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW). Annette Beger founded the Kommode Verlag in October 2010.