1955 Born in Germany
1979-84 Studied pottery at Horst Kerstan
1985 Own studio, built an anagama-kiln
1987 Travelled to Korea and to Japan to visit many ceramic sights
1992 Built a new anagama-kiln, fired big plates
1996 IWCAT-workshop at Tokoname, Japan
1999 Invitation for Woodfire-Conference, Iowa University, Iowa, USA
2002 Invitation for Aomori Woodfire Festival 
2004 new anagama-kiln
2004 Woodfire- Conference, CO-College Cedar Rapids, USA
2005 Invitation to Korea
2008 Exhibition with Jun Isezaki and Jeff Shapiro
2009 Visits Jun Isezaki in Bizen, Japan
 

Awards
1990 Award, City-Ring Singen
1991 1.price, Contemporary Ceramics, Offenburg
1992 State Award of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Award of Karlsruhe
2002 Price of the state Hessen, Frankfurt
2003 Diessen Ceramic Award
2004 Bavarian State Award, Munich

 

Public Collections
Stadt Tuttlingen
Landkreis Tuttlingen
Kunstsammlung der Veste Coburg
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
Regierungspräsidium Freiburg
Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart
Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth, Sögel
Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen
Keramion, Frechen
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Kassel
MAK, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Neue Sammlung
Sammlung Freudenberg, Weinheim
Sammlung Welle, Paderborn