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Work experience
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Since 2001
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Freelance
project development, script
editor and author
for feature films and
documentaries
Translator for English to
German (three publications)
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1997–2001
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Project
development and script editor
for feature films and
documentaries
for TAG/TRAUM,
Cologne (Gerd Haag and Thomas
Schmitt)
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1996–1997
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Script editor
and project
development for feature
films
for Storyline
(Annette Reeker), Cologne
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1995–1996
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Research
and script
editor for Claude Nedjar,
Paris
Intern in the
development department
for GMT,
Paris
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1991–1995
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Assistant to
the producers for CalypsoFilm,
Cologne
(Uwe Franke and Werner Possardt)
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1991
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Management
assistant
for M.G. Herl Armaturenfabrik,
Cologne |
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Further education |
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Screen writing
classes with:
Bobette Buster; Brenda Chapman
(Animation); Frank Daniel and James
Nathan; Keith Cunningham and Tom
Schlesinger; Uli Limmer; BEth
Serling (Adaptation); Jürgen
Wolff |
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Systemic
work for screenplays based on the
work of therapist Bert Hellinger
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ARCHIDOC
workshop (MEDIA) with
documentary project of my own, 2006
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German-French
Masterclass at the Film
Academy Ludwigsburg and La
Fémis,
Paris, 2001
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Docs without
frontiers, European Film
College, Ebeltoft, 2000 |
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Production
management TV, Bertelsmann
Scholarship, Cologne, 1999 (script
development, calculation and
controlling, management, rights and
financing) |
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Guest
student at La Fémis,
Paris
production class (Alain Rocca),
1995-96
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Education |
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2007-2008
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MA in
screenwriting at the
National Film School (iadt) in
Dublin, Ireland
(First Class Honours)
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1988–1991
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Diploma
as business management assistant
after apprenticeship at M.G. Herl
Armaturenfabrik, Cologne |
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1988
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University
entrance
diploma, A.B. Stettensches
Institut, Augsburg |
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Languages
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German
- Mother tongue
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English – fluent |
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French - good |