Born in 1959. After her Abitur apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller. From 1982 to 1987 she studied art history and new and Middle High German literature in Heidelberg. 1987 to 1994 employee at the gallery of the city of Sindelfingen. 1993 Doctorate. Since 1994 director of the Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. Publications on 19th and 20th century art.