Born in 1962. Studied drama, theater, and media at the University of Gießen. Assistant director and dramaturge for Robert Wilson from 1987–89 and artistic collaborator with Heiner Müller in 1989 (Hamlet/ Hamletmaschine, Deutsches Theater Berlin). In 1992–93 he received a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. He was a prizewinner at the Autorenwerkstatt des Literarischen Colloquiums in Berlin in 1994 and Artist in Residence at Podewil in Berlin in 1996. His music theater pieces have been performed at Staatsoper Stuttgart (Wozzeck-Kommentar, 1993), with ensemble recherche at the Gulbenkian Center in Lisbon (Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures, 1994) and Stuttgart’s Tage für Neue Musik (Words and Music, 1995), at Podewil in Berlin (Sextet with Klangforum Wien, 1997), and at the Berliner Ensemble (Faustus 53, 1998). In 1996 he did a theater production for the installation Camera Silens by Moonen & Arndt at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. “Documentary theater” on subjects including the Eichmann trial, the war in Kosovo, and suicide bombings. Performances at documenta X, the Berliner Volksbühne, the Goethe Institut Rotterdam, the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich, and elsewhere. In 2004 Voyeur by Jörg Mainka at Forum Neues Musiktheater, in 2006 fremd by Hans Thomalla and Schöner Götterfunken! Bilder einer Ausstellung einer Ausstellung by Alan Hilario as one of four operas of the NewMediaPocketOpera on occasion of the ISCM World New Music Festival 2006.