Studied at New York University, Applied Theater Studies (B.F.A.). After first positions at the Bayrisches Staatschauspiel, at the stages of the city of Bonn and as production assistant for Fritz Rau (Tabaluga & Lili), he was responsible for the cultural programs of the German states in the German Pavilion as project manager at the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hanover.In 2001 he programmed the renowned festival “Park of the Senses” for the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music (DZzM). On behalf of the German-French Youth Office (DFJW) from 2002 to 2006 bi-national training of young artists in Bayreuth and Lyon. For the city of Mannheim, he curated the program “Theater im öffentlichen Raum” on the occasion of the city’s 400th anniversary, including original productions by Theater Titanick, Theater DEREVO and with Jürgen Kuttner and Tom Kühnel. From 2007 to 2011, managing director on the board of directors of the Neukölln Opera, co-responsible for the production of over 30 world premieres of Berlin’s “4th opera”. Since 2011 responsible for the areas of culture and new media at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, where he developed, among other things, the international workshop conference format “Mobilize”.