1935
Born on September 15 in Teplitz-Schönau (today Czech Republic)
1953-1956
Studies at College of Applied Sciences in Potsdam (Fachschule für Angewandte Kunst in Potsdam); faculty of decorative painting
1956-1959
Enrollment at the Berlin-Weißensee College of Fine and Applied Arts (today Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee); faculty of stage painting under Arno Mohr and Gabriele Mucchi
1959
Escape to West Berlin, enrollment at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin-Charlottenburg (today Berlin University of the Arts); faculty of fine arts, change to the faculty of architecture under Julius Posener and others
1969-2012
Lives and works as a freelance journalist, architectural critic and photographer in Berlin
2012
Died on January 17 in Berlin