Before she went to art school, she took part in a drawing group in her hometown led by the artist Erika Stürmer-Alex.

In her core curriculum, she studied with Günter Hornig, who was an inspiration to a number of influential performance artists in East Germany[1] and who gave his students room for creative experimentation despite the conservative climate of the academy.

[1] These included her fellow students and upcoming artists like Christine Schlegel, Marie-Luise Bauerschmidt, Sabine Gumnitz, Monika Hanske, Cornelia Schleime, and Angela Schumann.

In 1992, she received the Marianne Werefkin Prize [de] from the Berlin Women Artist Association.

She developed "an artistic activation of the body in the interest of female self-assurance and empowerment"[2] and would call "into question traditional representations of femininity as well as the basic difference between internal and external perception.