Employment history

actually freelance author, curator and art advisor

since 2011 initiator of the concert series B.E.N.K (Bad Emser Neue Klänge) dedicated to contemporary classic music organized with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie for Bad Ems

05.2004-06.2012
Art and operational Director of the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, in addition to mentioned tasks, responsible for the artistic planning, the support of the artists, the international representation of the residency through numerous exhibitions, the development of co-operations world wide and the editing of all publications.

since 08.1999
Operational director of the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral in charge of the personnel, the budget, the organization of all activities of the artist residency and of the fellows.

1988-
Examiner for Art History (contemporary art) for schools.

04.1996-07.1999
Assistant Lecturer for contemporary art at the Institute for art at the University of Koblenz -Landau, Campus Koblenz.

01.03.1191-31.12.1996
Founding Director of the Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz.Responsible for the oversight of the construction of the museum, the formation of the collection in accordance with the wishes of the collector Prof. Ludwig, the planning of a coherent exhibition programme and its realization as well as associated activities and educational services.

10.1990-02.1991
Author of "Ex Aequo", a catalogue with 24 Swiss artists commissioned by the Confoederatio Helveticae on the occasion of the 700-Jubilee of Switzerland

08.1989-09.1990
Curator at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de la Ville de Fribourg.

05.1986-05.1989
Deputy Head at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

09.1985-04.1986
Assistant at Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna

10.1984-08.1985
Art expert, Nordstern-Versicherungen, Vienna

1983
Freelance translator French-German for the Sessler-Verlag Munich-Vienna

1979-1982
Head of Department and expert for sculpture and decorative art at the auctioneer Galerie Koller, Zürich; scientific assistant for research about "Mittelalterliche Schatzbestände aus alten österreichischen Sammlungen" for the Academy of Science, Vienna

09.1974-11.1977
Scientific assistant for the publication P.E. Schramm / H. Fillitz, "Denkmale der deutschen Könige und Kaiser", Munich 1978 mandated by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich

09.1966-05.1967
Secretary at American Optical Company, Basle