Holding a ‘Diplom-Kaufmann’ in business administration (FU Hagen, 1991) and a PhD in journalism studies (TU Dortmund, 1999), habilitated in media- and communication sciences (U Leipzig, 2006), teaching at the universities of Frankfurt (Oder), Mannheim and Leipzig, founding the training program for television at University of Leipzig, substituting professorships at U Leipzig and U Koblenz.
More than 20 years of experience as a media professional (print, broadcast (audio, video, online), working as journalist and author and director, heading projects in media management and media development, expert in change management processes of media business.