My work as an author, director and film producer is defined by the motto: "Pictures indicate the silence between words."
With this in mind, I strive for imagery committed to people and aesthetics for my documentary projects,
for which I am happy to use artistic means to make them metaphorically deeper.
I move in three thematic areas, which intersect in individual film projects:
1. contemporary history’s deep abrasions through the reconstruction of a person’s biography, which reflects historical events, the consequences of which extend into our time;
2. art history and contemporary history reflections based on the highly aesthetically-demanding filmic description of the history of the life and work of an artistically creative person,
in whose biography aesthetic development trajectories focus on content-related and formal statements, which extend beyond the day;
3. philosophical reflections using the documentary and aesthetic treatment of a topic that is highly relevant to the self-image of the people of our time.
- Since 1992
- Freelance writer and director:
TV and radio features; documentary films
(WDR, ZDF, SWR, BR, Radio Bremen, FAZ-TV)
- 1992 - 1994
- Trainee assistant director, ARTE documentary films
- 1992
- Intern and freelancer at Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung TV
- 1992
- Graduation with Master of Arts
- 1986 - 1992
- Masters degree at J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main:
German language and literature, philosophy, drama, film, and TV studies
- 1985 - 1986
- Studies at J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: Geography
- 16.3.1966
- Born in Frankfurt am Main
- 2021-2023
- PREHISTORIC MOTHERS - the evolutionary origins of maternity
Documentary film, 52 Min,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2022-2023
- „ORIGIN“
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 80 Min
Documentary film
- 2018-2021
- Great Apes - A story of the feeling moral mind
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 58 Min
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2014-2018
- The Silent Glow – Recovering the Present
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 86. min.
Dokumentarfilm / Kino
- 2014-2017
- School of Mindfulness
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 34 min.
- 2015/2016
- Hearing Voices
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2014/2015
- Heroes of Tomorrow
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2013
- My life without compromise
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 30 min.,
WDR / ARD
- 2012
- Pilot of Dreams – The Films of Andrzej Wajda
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2010
- Volker Sommer – I am an Ape
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 45 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2010
- Diary of a Commander of Prisoners of War
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 52 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2007 / 2008
- Blazing Feather. Discerning Heart. – Nan Cuz. A German-Indian Painter
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 45 min.,
Radio Bremen / ARTE
- 2001/2002
- Family secrets – the Tale of a Dangerous Liaison
Producer, director and screenwriter, doc. film, 63 min.,
co-produced by BR, HR, WDR
- 2000/2001
- Cornfields and Floral Wreaths – Etzel the Organic Farmer
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR
- 1996
- Being No one – The Self as a Motif and a Myth
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR
- 1995/1996
- The Individual and Simulation – From the Soul to the Consciousness
Screenwriter and director, doc. film, 45 min.,
WDR
- 2017
- The enemy within – coping with hearing voices
55 Min., WDR 5
- 2012
- Pilot of Dreams – The Films of Andrzej Wajda
55 Min., WDR
- 2010
- Between the lagoon and Cape Horn – the great odyssey of a small boy from East Prussia
60 Min., BR
- 2009
- Diary of a Commander of Prisoners of War
60 Min., WDR 3
- 2008
- Between inside and outside – From self-actualization and social involvement
25 Min., SWR2
- 2007
- Blazing Feather. Discerning Heart. – Nan Cuz. A German-Indian Painter
60 Min., WDR 3
- 2006
- Freed voices – former slaves tell their stories
25 Min., SWR2
- 2006
- Wisdom – New insights about an old virtue
25 Min., SWR2
- 2006
- Tattoo, Piercing, and Co. – Stories of pain, rituals, and identity
25 Min., SWR2