Timeline

1950

Born in Leipzig, Germamy

1954

Moves to Berlin’s Lichtenberg district, Berlin, Germany

1957 - 1972

School, college-prep high school diploma, apprentice film copier and repro photographer, military service, theater craftsman

1972 - 1977

Studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (College of Visual Arts), Dresden

1977

Freelance artist in East Berlin

1980 - 1983

Traveling

1980

Moved to West Berlin’s Kreuzberg district

1986

Work stipend from Berlin’s Senator for Cultural Affairs

1989

1st Berlin Summer Academy, co-founder and docent

1990

Guest Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (College of Visual Arts), Dresden

1992

Villa Serpentara Stipend, Rome; 1st Thuringian Summer Academy, co-founder and artistic director

1993

2nd Thuringian Summer Academy, artistic director Guest Professor at Pentiment, Hochschule für Gestaltung (College of Design), Hamburg

1994

Participant at the Konferenz Kunst und Politik (Conference on Art and Politics), Aspen Institute, Colorado Guest Professor at the Hochschule der Künste (College of Fine Arts), Berlin

1995

Work stipend from Berlin’s Senator for Cultural Affairs Participant at the Konferenz Kunst und Politik; 1st prize für Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe, together with C. Jakob-Marks, H. Rolfes, H. Scheib (not realized)

1996

Art prize of DRAGOGO company

1997

Director of artistic design at Vierseithof and of the Kunstförderverein (Association for the Promotion of Art) at the Kunsthalle Luckenwalde

1998

Participant at the Conference „Cultural Policies in Europe“ Vienna, Austria

2002

Art prize of VEAG company

2006 - 2008

Chairman of the Development Association of Kulturpark Berlin-Kladow

2010

Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany