Childhood and youth in North Hesse in a family with a musical background. School theater and choral singing, career aspiration opera singer.

Studied musicology in Frankfurt/M, singing lessons as a guest student at the MH Frankfurt

Assistant director opera and directing at the Staatstheater Kassel

Actor Poor Theatre Company New York

In Frankfurt: director and actor (radio, TV and theater),

Founder of the independent theater company EXP-Theater

Asian martial arts, zen meditation, taiji

Study trips London, Taiwan, New York, Hong Kong

Foundation of the Taichi School Frankfurt, from 2008 Taiji Academy

Training with Master K.H. Chu, London, master student, 1st European Master of the Yang style family tradition, books about Taiji and Qigong

vocal training with Dietburg Spohr

recitals and CDs with the Russian pianist Stella Goldberg

Since 2010 recitals with various pianists