- Diploma
- „Maîtrise en économie appliquée, économie monétaire“ equivalent: “Diplom” in applied economics, monetary economics, Université Paris IX Dauphine, 1986-88, grant of the DAAD
- TOEFEL Test, Paris 1989
- “Vordiplom in Wirtschaftswissenschaften” bachelor in economics and management, Freie Universität Berlin 1985
- Cambridge First Certificate, Au-Pair in London, 1982
- Work-shops and studies in screenwriting
- Robert McKee in New York and Hamburg
- David Howard, Don Bohlinger and James Nathan, Berlin
- Frank Göhre, Wolfgang Kirchner, Hamburg
- Oliver Schütte, Kirsten Harder, Roland Zag, Karl Möller-Naß and Wolfgang Kohlhase, Berlin
- John Vorhaus, David Meredith, Stefan Dähnert for comedy, Ludwigsburg
- Anja Weber, Bettina Pfändner, Thomas Schrader for daily soap/telenovela, Berlin
- John Stuart Katz, York University, Toronto, Canada
- acting
- Susan Batson and John Costopoulos, Actors Studio, New York/ Germany
- Uta Hagen, H.B.Studio, New York/ Berlin
- Lenard Petit and Kevin Cottner, New York (chekhov)
- Slava Kokorin, Russia (chekhov)
- Keith Johnstone, Canada (improvisation)
- Karin Seven and her ensemble at the ACUD theater, Berlin
- mise-en-scène and documentary filmmaking
- Dough Davidson, York University, Toronto.
- Walter A. Franke, Patrick Caputo, ISFF/Grundy UFA, Berlin.
- special and visual effects
- Harrison Ellenshaw, Tim Rowell und Robert H. Grasmere, Los Angeles (Media II Programm, Berlin-Babelsberg).
born in Berlin 1963