Born in 1965 in Glückstadt on the Elbe, studied theatre studies, film and television studies, art history and sociology in Berlin. During his studies he did freelance co-operation for film and television as a set designer's assistant and as set designer. He graduated with a thesis on production design in Woody Allen's films, then he worked for the Berlin International Film Festival and the German Film Awards. Since 2001 he has been curator of the Filmmuseum Berlin. Curator of media programs for most of the Filmmuseum's exhibitions since 2002, including monographic exhibitions on Heinz Rühmann, Fritz Lang, Ruth Leuwerik, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Hildegard Knef, and Romy Schneider, as well as theme exhibitions – Oscars in animation, psychology and film, angels in film, set design, costume design, and German film operetta.