Born and raised in Bercht­es­gaden­er Land, Ger­many. After grad­u­at­ing from high school stud­ied polit­i­cal sci­ence and soci­ol­o­gy at the Philipps-Uni­ver­si­ty in Marburg.

Active for many years as bud­get direc­tor with an adver­tis­ing agency based in Frank­furt. Par­al­lel cre­ation of a cal­en­dar pub­lish­ing hou­se­in 2007. Earned sev­er­al awards at the Inter­na­tion­al Cal­en­dar Show in Stuttgart. In 2013, pro­fes­sion­al change focussing on the sub­ject of artis­tic pho­tog­ra­phy and mov­ing to Worp­swede. Since 2014 reg­u­lar exhi­bi­tion activ­i­ty. Found­ing mem­ber of the Worp­swede Photofes­ti­val »RAW« in 2015.

I under­stand myself as an autonomous, visu­al artist, live both in Wies­baden and Worp­swede and view the world as my work­place. I am the direc­tor of the »RAW Pho­to Tri­en­nale Worp­swede«, sinde 2022 artis­tic direc­tor of Wies­baden­er Foto­tage, mem­ber of the Pro­fes­sion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Visu­al Artists e.V. (BBK) and appoint­ed mem­ber of the Ger­man Soci­ety for Pho­tog­ra­phy e.V. (DGPh).