Born 1976 in Berlin, began to study Sinology in 2001 at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Free University of Berlin. Between 2010 and 2014 he spent his time evenly split between Asia and Germany. In 2010 he worked at the German Pavilion during the Expo in Shanghai, in 2011/2012 he worked as a journalist and translator in Beijing and Taipei and in 2013/2014 he moderated the bus tour “Hier kommt Deutsch“(“Here comes German”) organized by the Goethe-Institute in the context of the German-Chinese year of language. From 2014 to 2017 he has been living in Shenyang and was the director of the Goethe-Language Centre at the Northeastern-University. Since summer of 2017 he is working as a contract teacher at the Goethe-Jinchuang Language Center Shanghai.