Education \ Work

Education

Doctorate Topografie des Laiendarsteller-Diskurses – zur Konstruktion von Laiendarsteller*innen im Kinospielfilm, reviewers Prof. Dr. Michael Wedel and Prof. Dr. Jens Eder, grade summa cum laude

Media Studies (HFF Konrad Wolf) Master of Arts (Die letzten Filmaufnahmen von Adolf Hitler – Qualitative Dimensionen ihrer Verwendung in Film- und Fernsehdokumentationen)

Cultural Studies (FernUniversität Hagen) Bachelor of Arts (Zur vergleichenden Untersuchung ‘moderner’ Erzähltexte und ihrer Verfilmungen unter dem Aspekt der Visualität – am Beispiel von Günter Grass’ Die Blechtrommel und des gleichnamigen Spielfilms von V. Schlöndorff)

Professional Development Program in Theatre Management at the Institute for Theatre Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Acting, singing and piano lessons

Abitur (German secondary-school diploma)

Work

since 2025  President of the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin.

2021-2025  Rector of the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin.

2019–2021 Project lead, The Cinematic Face of the Cities (Das filmische Gesicht der Städte), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). A post-doc project I secured funding for myself.

2019-2020  Head of the Research, Transfer and Start-up division of Film University KONRAD WOLF

2018-2019 11-01 Visiting professorship at Film University KONRAD WOLF

2016-2018 Vice President for Research and Transfer of Film University KONRAD WOLF

2012-2018  research associate in the degree programmes Digitale Medienkultur (B.A.) and Medienwissenschaft (M.A.) at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

2011-2012  student assistant to Prof. M. Wedel at the Academy of Film and Television

2011-2012  guided tours (German/English) through the exhibitions Babelsberg – Gesichter einer Filmstadt and Traumfabrik – 100 Jahre Film in Babelsberg at the Filmmuseum Potsdam

2011-2012  conceptual work and running of the workshops Filme machen ist (nicht) schwer and Filme lesen lernen at the Filmmuseum Potsdam

2010 06-08  exhibition tours Poesie der Bewegung media art ARS ELECTRONICA

since 2010  freelance script consultant for ZDF, NDR, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, nordmedia, Deutscher Drehbuchpreis, Boje Buck Filmproduktion, Fox International Productions (Germany)

2009 and 2011-2012  ZDF editorial department Fernsehfilm I (editorial assistance, interim)

in addition since 1999  working freelance as an actress as well as a speaker and presenter,
from 2012 mainly for academic/university events