Born in Berlin in 1959, she studied directing and screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin and subsequently worked as a freelance director and writer for cinema and television. She took part in the Berlinale in 1999 with her film "Zwei in einem Boot". In 2002 she began working as a freelance lecturer in camera acting and film history at the film acting school Filmschauspielschule in Berlin, and in 2008 began lecturing at the Film Institute of the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Source: 62. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)