Born in Berlin in 1982, after various jobs and directing internships in the film industry she spent a year at the international European Film College in 2003. She took up studies in directing at the "Konrad Wolf" College of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg in 2005 and also works as a portrait photographer.

Her film "In deiner Haut" ("Inside You") was presented at Berlinale 2008 in the section "Perspektive Deutsches Kino". Her graduation film was "Am Himmel der Tag" ("Breaking Horizons", 2012).