She worked in theater in Nordhausen, among other activities as a puppeteer, participated in the ecclesiastical research center in Wittenberg, Germany. There followed an internship in the Zion Church in Dresden, participation in the concilliary process (work group for Eastern Europe), and in the ecumenical assembly for „Peace, Justice and Protection of Creation“.
In 1988 she begann her university studies in the theological seminar in Leipzig, which she left a year later due to pressure from the state. She was a member of the opposition circle “justice” in Leipzig, coorganized the forbidden 1989 Street Music Festival, contributed to the Leipzig Peace Prayers. With Gesine Oltmanns she took the protest out of the church into the public „For an open country with free people“,in the courtyard of the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Semptember 4, 1989.
On September 11, 1989 she was arrested and remained in prison until October 13, 1989, when she was released following the political events surrounding the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic. She was a founding member of the archive for the citizens´ movement in Leipzig.
Her exhibitions and projects in the past include:
„Return to Freedom“, as part of the events surrounding „Leipzig Remembers Fall 89“, Leipzig, Nikolaikirche 1999
Exhibition Les Issambres, France, Villa Begnis, 2000
„Art and Children“ with Citizens´Foundation, Herten, Germany, since 2000
„Il pellino“, Pella, Lago d´Orta, Italy, 2001
Light Project „Kite Flight“ in the Marktkirche, Goslar, Germany, 2002
Exhibition „Daring Freedom“, in Krzyzowa/Kreisau, Poland, together with the Foundation and Memorial Kreisau
Exhibition „Joy of Color“, Berlin 2003
Art project with the Essenheim Art Foundation, Essenheim, Germany 2003
Exhibition „Bilderwerke", Georgenthal, 2003
Exhibition "Das bunte Quadrat", Berlin Alexanderplatz, 2004
Exhibition "Freiheit wagen" , at Streitbörger and Speckmann in Bielefeld, 2005
Exhibition "Inno alla Libertà", Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati in cooperation with the Istituto di Cultura Germanica, the City of Leipzig, the City of Bologna and the Associazione Cultura e Arte del´700, Bologna 2005
Love Couple Project, beginning Februar 2006 in Cooperation with the Kunstverein Essenheim in Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt
Exhibition, Workshop and Lecture: "I Diritti Civili nell´ex Germania dell´Est - "Inno alla Libertà", Comune di Bologna, Quartiere Savena, Mai 2006
Exhibition "Love Couple Project", Kunstverein Essenheim, Juni 2006
Exhibition "Kunst auf Zeit", Berlin 2007
Open Studio, Berlin, Nov. 2008
Exhibitions in 2009: Berlin, Florence, Leipzig and Nordhausen
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