1988 – 1999 Studies in History, German Literature and Language, and Philosophy at the universities of Augsburg, Tübingen, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Cambridge
1990 Study abroad at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani in Venedig and the Istituto di Cultura Italo-Tedesca Verona
1999 – 2001 Certified archivist training
Since 2001 Archivist at the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
Since 2003 Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Tübingen, the Archivschule Marburg (until 2007) and the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
Member of the Board of the Südwestdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung