Studies:

English / French literature, Cinema in Munich, London, Montpellier, Paris. (M.A.)

Languages:

German – French – English – Spanish

Professional Experience

Since 1972

free lance filmmaker for German TV

1972

organizer of the first Festival of New German Film in France

1973

member of the Jury at the Film Festival in Tours

Since 1974:

writer / director / producer

Promotional and industrial films for such firms as CAMEL, IBM and ARRI

1986

founder of the production company UTOPIA FILM producing large format documentaries and fiction till 2010

1992

extended stay in Los Angeles

1994 – 1998

member of the Board at the VDD (German Writers Guild)

1996

founder of the “Starnberg-Russland-Hilfe”, a private organization bringing food, medicine and cloths into deserted
regions of Russia by trucks

Since 2004

member of DEUTSCHE FILMAKADEMIE (German Academy of Motion Pictures)

2007

first novel published

2011

second novel

Teaching Experience

during the years 1990 – 1995

several seminars at the Munich Film School (HFFF)

2003

lecturer at the “Filmakademie Ludwigsburg ”

2004

visiting lecturer at several film-schools and universities in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

2005

film symposium organized by UCLA / Los Angeles, lectures at the Goethe-Institut / Los Angeles and San Francisco

2006

guest-professor at the “University of California ” – Berkeley

2007

workshops and Seminars in Porto and Lyon

2009

concept of a new film school in France : “AICA – Académy International de cinema et de l´audiovisuel ” – commissioned
by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy