Born in Stuttgart in 1973. Studied modern German literature, art history, and comparative literature at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen and at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Assistance to gifted students and dissertation grant from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, dissertation prize of the Universität Tübingen for her work “Goethes Musiktheater.” In 2004 research assistant and librettist for Lucia Ronchetti’s opera Last Desire. In 2003–4 she had a grant from the Forum Neues Musiktheater, Stuttgart. In 2003 she was an editorial assistant for Prestel-Verlag and intern at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. In 2004 she participated in Infinito nero and also in 2004 Dramaturge for Last Desire at the Forum Neues Musiktheater.