After studying History of Art, Film and Television and Anthropology work as a Film critic and author of almost 20 books about cinema and actors. In the Eighties co-founder of a production company which produced special interest programs for German TV, in particular for Voice of Germany.
In the late Eighties co-founder of second company for post- and film-production. Co-writer and director of several documentaries, the most known ones about two German stars, Götz George and Mario Adorf.
Since 1992 commissioning editor in the cinema department of ARTE in Strasbourg, since 1994 head of this department. In the year 2000 move to German TV ZDF to direct their ARTE film department (ZDF is one of ARTE’s shareholder and actually acquires and co-produces movies for a broadcasting on the French-German cultural channel).
Jury member in Sarajevo, Guadalajara, Sao Paulo. Export for EAVE and ACE.