Born in 1957 in Vienna, studied at University of Music and Performing Arts, Department Film and Television, Vienna.

Awards:
Main Diagonale Award (Best Austrian Documentary 2006/07)
Advancement Award for Cinematic Art 2009
Diagonale Award (Best Cinematography, Documentary Film 2009/10)
"Big Stamp" for the best regional film 2010, Int. Filmfestival ZagrebDOX, Croatia
IFFI-Award 2016 for Best Documentary, Prize of the Town of Innsbruck, Austria
Winner of the "Critical Eye-­‐screening", Lume Int. Filmfestival, Brazil, 2011
best cinematography, 4. Int. Documentary Drama Filmfestival, Saratov, Russia, 2007
'Personale' (retrospective),Diagonale 2010