Free-lance director and author for WDR, 3sat and ARTE since 1988

Correspondent for “Ballett-Journal” (formerly “Das Tanzarchiv”) from 1980 until discontinuation in 2002

Correspondent for the arts section of Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf for ten years

Press officer for > “Verband deutscher Musikschulen,” Association of German Schools of Music, Bonn, for eight years. Outstanding project: Contribution to planning and organizing the > Erstes Europäisches Musikfestival der Jugend (First European Youth Music Festival) in 1985. More than 9,000 participants from 23 countries gave farewell concerts at the Olympic Center in Munich.

Dissertation: Bélá Bartók. The Miraculous Mandarine. From Pantomime to Dance Theater. Ulrich Steiner Verlag, 1985

Studies of musicology, theater, film and TV, and History of Art, at Cologne University. Graduate student of > Prof. Dr. Dietrich Kämper

Junior lecturer at the Municipal School of Music in Meerbusch for five years

Classical ballet instruction since age ten, also tranining in jazz dance and flamenco. Student of > Fe Reichelt, founder of the Tanzwerkstatt Düsseldorf, precursor of today's >Tanzhaus NRW, Dance House NRW.

Foreign languages: English and French; basic skills in Portuguese and Italian