[2] After his abitur at the Staatliche Hilda-Gymnasium in Koblenz and his military service in the Heeresmusikkorps 300 he started studying philosophy, educational science and sociology at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

[3] After several internships and working as freelance contributor for a radio station as well as for the online magazine bumbanet.de he started training as a specialized journalist at Freie Journalistenschule in Berlin in 2008, which he successfully completed in 2010.

[4] At the beginning of the 2000s he started standing out in publications, so that he has so far featured in numerous poetry anthologies, among them the series Junge Lyrik[5] by Martin Werhand Verlag.

His poetry was also recognized in projects that got supra-regional attention, such as the event Poesie bewegt[6] in 2006/2007, organized by the Bremer Verkehrsbetriebe and the foundation Apollon-Stiftung with the art directors Renato Mismetti and Joachim Tuz, and the event Lesezeichen 2014, organized by the Förderverein Forum-Literaturbüro e. V. in Hildesheim.

[10] A third, fourth and fifth book of poetry was published in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 in the series 50 Gedichte[11] with the title Albtrauma, Kassiber and Alphasucht.