between 1996 and 2000 (Cologne) studio with Kirsten Everwien, Anja Knust, Gabi Hasenkamp (illustration), Beate Leinz, Thomas Donga and Heike Tekampe (text) … 1996 (Cologne) freelance work for Birnbach Design, Bonn … 1994 (London) scholarship of the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft, work at Omnific Studios / Derek Birdsall, Alan Kitching, Pentagram / David Hillman, Phaidon Press / Stuart Smith … between 1990 and 1996 (Cologne) study of visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (diploma) … between 1987 and 1990 (Cologne) apprenticeship and employment as a bookseller at Wienand Publishing House … between 1968 and 1987 (Miami, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Herdecke, Stuttgart, Bergisch Gladbach) school … 1968 (Hamburg) born. In the same year the computer mouse was invented, the typeface Syntax was designed, Marcel Duchamp and John Heartfield died and the Ulmer Hochschule was closed.