1976  Born in Stuttgart. Initial musical training with the Stuttgarter Hymnus Boys Choir and Dorothee Gloger

1993  First national prize in the competition "Jugend musiziert" (once again in 1995)

2001  Schwetzinger Festpiele: "Bacon 1561-1992" by Manuel Hidalgo

2002  Brucknerfest Linz: San Giovanni Battista in "Salome" by Alessandro Stradella

2003  Festival Arts and Ideas, New Haven: "Phantom Palace" by Hilda Paredes

2004  Scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

2005  Post-graduate studies in voice at the Music Conservatory in Karlsruhe (Prof. Donald Litaker)
          Semperoper Dresden: Title role in "Der gute Gott von Manhattan" by Adriana Hölszky
          Festival de Música Contemporánea, Buenos Aires: "Fabula" von Oscar Strasnoy

2007  Schwetzinger Festspiele and Theater Basel: "Der Alte vom Berge" by Bernhard Lang
          Wiener Festwochen: "Zauberflöte" in a staged & arranged version with puppets (Thalias Kompagnons)

2008  Opera de Paris, Theater Graz and Opera of Oslo: "Melancholia" by Georg F. Haas
          Biennale München and Biennale Venedig: "Arbeit.Nahrung.Wohnung" by Enno Poppe

2009  Salzburger Festspiele and Staatstheater Stuttgart: "Judith" by Antonio Vivaldi / Friedrich Hebbel

2010  Nationaltheater Mannheim: Title role in "Montezuma - Fallender Adler" by Bernhard Lang
          Staatstheater Stuttgart: "Pnima " by Chaya Czernowin
          Scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude