Born 1966 in Wiesbaden, Germany, she studied art history, archaeology and film studies and, in 1990, co-founded the film festival Wiesbaden “exground on screen”, today “exgroundfilmfest”,Hessia’s biggest film festival. She is running the festival as the director since today.

She also works for the DeutschesFilminsti- tut in Frankfurt; from 2001 until 2014 she was curating the student competition for the goEast-film festival and coordinating the festival’s training programme “goE-

ast-Young Professionals“ as well as the goEast project-market for young filmmak- ers from Germany and Central and since 2015 the Eastern Europe – the East-West Talent Lab. Since 2011 she is amember of the board of directors of the German short film association and since 2018 a member of the brand new cultural council of the city of Wiesbaden.