1964 in Hilden, Germany

• 2000: Move to Vancouver, Canada, set up own workshop
• 1998-99: Instructor for glass engraving in the summer school Bild-Werk, Frauenau
• 1989: Own workshop in Helminghausen, Germany
• 1986-88: Development in glass design, FS Zwiesel, class Franz X Hoeller
• 1983-86: Apprenticeship in glass engraving, BFS Zwiesel

• 1998,99: Scholarships at the Pilchuck Summer School, Stanwood, WA
• 1995: Scholarship at the Creative Glass Center, Wheaton Village
• 1994: Foerderpreis of the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation
• 1993: Scholarship at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, Class Prof. Vladimir Kopecky
• Gold Medal, "Bayerischer Staatspreis"

• 2002: Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2001: Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany
• 2000: Ernsting Foundation, Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
• 1999: Glasmuseum Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic
• 1998: Ernsting Foundation, Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany

• 2003: Stained Glass: Exploring New Techniques and New Materials, Rockport Publishers, January
• 1999: Engraved Glass, Contemporary Artists by Marilyn and Tom Goodearl, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
• Corning Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
1988 (#9); 1991 (#12); 1992 (#13); 1994 (#15); 1998 (#19); 1999 (20); 2000 (#21)

• 2002: ST'art, Art Fair Strassbourg with JCC Galerie (Luxembourg)
• 2001: WG @ BE, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, OR
Contemporary Arts and Crafts from Germany, Deutsche Festspiele in Indien, New Delhi, Calcutta
International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan
ST'art, Art Fair Strassbourg, with JCC Galerie (Luxembourg)
• 2000: Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum am Ehrenhof, Jubilaumsausstellung des Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation Preises
Solo show "vessel 2000", Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Chapelotte Galerie
8th Triennale des Kunsthandwerks, Australia and Germany, Frankfurt, Sydney, Adelaide
Strassbourg, ST'art Art Fair with Galerie
• 1999: Annual Exhibition der British Columbia Glass Art Association, Vancouver, Library
Kamenicky Senov, Glassmuseum, 2nd Gravyrsymposium
Engraved Glass—International Contemporary Artists, London
Glassammlung Ernsting—Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld-Lette
• 1998: International Exhibition of Glass—Kanazawa, Japan
• 1997: MANU FACTUM 18th Landesausstellung NRW, Hamm
• 1996: Painted Glass, Bergbau- und Industriemuseum Ostbayern, Theuern
• 1995: MANU FACTUM 17th Landesausstellung NRW, Koeln
• 1994: Synagoga—exhibition of the class Vlad. Kopecky, Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
Portrait der Meister—Winner of the "Bayrischer Staatspreis" 1952—1994, Muenchen
Glass Engraving in Europe: Bergbau- und Industriemuseum Ostbayern, Theuern
• 1992: Neuland—special show of the "ambiente", Frankfurt
• 1990-91: Fifth Triennale des Kunsthandwerks—Frankfurt, Hannover, Leipzig
• 1990: Gestaltungswettbewerb Junges Handwerk in NRW—Aachen
• 1989: Jugend gestaltet—special show of the Int. Craft Fair, Muenchen
• 1988: Glas, Gestaltung, Glas—student's works of the BFS Zwiesel, Glasmuseum Frauenau