Born in Aachen.
First musical education at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt.
Degree in music teaching and concert examination at the State Universities of Music in Heidelberg/Mannheim and Karlsruhe.
Subsequently teaching recorder at the Evangelische Kirchenmusikschule Hessen/Nassau in Frankfurt a.M. and teaching at the Musikschule Bensheim.
Since 1984 employment at the music school of Akademie für Tonkunst.