| * 6. März 1948 in Heidelberg, † 9. März 2016 in Paris | |
| 1962-1965 | offset printer apprenticeship. |
| 1966-1971 | studies at the free academy arts and crafts school and college in mannheim (applied graphics with prof. wolf magin, painting and sculpture with prof. hans nagel). |
| 1969-1972 | theater photographer fort he national theatre mannheim/germany. |
| 1971 | assistant for graphic arts and prints at the free academy and crafts school in mannheim. |
| 1971 | takes over hans nagel´s studio and sets up a photographic studio in mannheim (tullastrasse 14). concentration on photography. advertising commissions, magazine photography and freelance work. |
| 1975 | travel abroad and first photographic stagings. |
| 1978-1981 | works again as photographer for the national theatre mannheim. |
| 1983 | moves with his family to paris; opening of a photographic studio (52, rue pernety). |
| 1983-1991 | work published internationally in advertising campaigns on magazine covers and as photographic illustrations. |
| 1984 | in parallel to photography, the resumption of painting and drawing activities; increasing attention to freely chosen photographic subjects. |
| 1988 | opening of the rural studio „le couche“ in the south of paris. |
| 1990 | turns his back on commercial work. in addition to photographs, produces paintings, drawings, objects, video and texts. |
| 1991 | inclusion of digital experiments in pictorial concepts. |
| 1995 | enlargement of the „le couche-studio“. |
| 1999 | professor of photography and interdisciplinary image concepts. lived in paris, le couche and cologne. |