1959 born in Solingen, Germany
1977-1979 apprenticeship as a craftsman
1980 secondary school for design, Düsseldorf
1980-1982 working as a craftsman
1982-1988 study at German Film-and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
since 1988 freelance producer, director and editor (Taris Filmproduction)
since 1977 singer/writer in the band S.Y.P.H.
1985 guest of David Lynch in the production of »Blue Velvet« in Wilmington, U.S.A.
1986 second-unit-director of »Wings of Desire« (Wim Wenders)
1989 award of county North Rhine-Westphalia
1990 German documentary young talent award (ex aequo)
1993 marriage with Maja Weiss / birth of son August Adrian
1993-1995 committee member of the film-foundation Lower Saxony, Germany
1996 retrospective of seven shortfilms in German TV-Station WDR
1999 director of a monthly weekend primetime show for TV Slovenija
2000 Co-Producer and Editor of the first full-lenght feature of Maja Weiss
»The Guardian of the Frontier«
2001 birth of daughter Larissa
2002 participation on the re-release of »Blue Velvet« (David Lynch) on DVD through MGM
with documentary film-images and a photo-gallery
2004 release of S.Y.P.H. Do-CD-anthology
2005 retrospectives in Linz and Vienna, Austria
since 1982 participant on numerous festivals, - Berlin, Oberhausen, München, Hamburg, Osnabrück, Dresden, Duisburg, Oslo, Rotterdam, London, Bilbao, Trento, Los Angeles,
Bombay, Dublin, Warschau, St. Petersburg, Marseille, Lausanne, Vallodolid, Kassel, Glasgow, Portoroz, Sarajevo, Drama, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Trieste, Clermont-Ferrand,
San Jose, Aspen, Toronto, Gyor, Huesca, Badalona, New York, Ghent, Vila do Conde,
Hot Springs, Sheffield, Uppsala, Amiens, Vicenza, Tampere, Manchester, Seattle, ...