| since 2003 | Head of the Freiburg City Cultural Office, board member of several regional, supra-regional and national art foundations and cultural organisations |
| 2001 - 2003 | Deputy Head of the Stuttgart City Cultural Office |
| 1992 - 2001 | Head of the Visual and Applied Arts Department and the "Hamburg Public Art Program" at the Cultural Authority, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, curated and organised numerous exhibitions and public art projects with both regional and international artists |
| 1991 - 1992 | Head of the Visual Arts Department and the municipal art school, Langenhagen |
| 1990 - 1991 | Visual Arts Editor, magazine "PRINZ", Bremen |
| 1986 - 1992 | independent journalist and art critic, cultural reporter for the radio, artistic and curatorial practice |
Education |
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| 1990 | holds a degree in art education, German philology, philosophy (State Examination) |
| 1983 - 1990 | studied fine arts / art education, history of art, German philology and philosophy at University of Oldenburg and University of Fine Arts Braunschweig |
| 1982 / 1983 | studied history of art and journalism at the Free University Berlin |
Lectureships / University Service |
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| 2009 - 2010 | Freiburg University of Education: cultural policy, cultural management and cultural education |
| 2000 - 2001 | University of Hamburg: public art |
Lectures on public art, cultural development and planning, concepts of intercultural art work and cultural education
Essays and books mainly focusing on public art, individual artists and cultural development planning The following list contains the books, authorship and editorship: kunstkonzept.freiburg, Kulturentwicklungsplanung als Beteiligungsprozess (Ed.), Freiburg 2009
AUSSENDIENST, Kunstprojekte in öffentlichen Räumen Hamburgs, edited by Achim Könneke and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Freiburg 2002
AUSSENDIENST, Kunstprojekte in öffentlichen Räumen Hamburgs, Phase 1, Ed. von der Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und dem Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg 2000
Bogomir Ecker, Die Tropfsteinmaschine in der Galerie der Gegenwart 1996 – 2496, edited by Kunsthalle Hamburg und der Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Ostfildern 1999
Gloria Friedmann, Hier + Jetzt, Den Opfern nationalsozialistischer Justiz in Hamburg, (Ed.), Hamburg 1998
Die Kunst des Öffentlichen. Projekte / Ideen / Stadtplanungsprozesse im politischen / sozialen / öffentlichen Raum, edited by Marius Babias and Achim Könneke, Dresden 1998
Christian Philipp Müller, Kunst auf Schritt und Tritt, (Ed.), Hamburg 1997
Thomas Schütte, Haus des Gedenkens, KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, (Ed.), Hamburg 1996
Stephan Huber / Raimund Kummer, Hauptbahnhof-Nord, (Ed.), Ostfildern 1994
Clegg and Guttmann. Die offene Bibliothek, (Ed.). Ostfildern 1994
Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev - Gerz, Das Harburger Mahnmal gegen Faschismus, (Ed.), Ostfildern 1994
Vor ort - Kunst in städtischen Situationen I, Angelika Schirmer, Mischa Kuball, Ottmar Hörl (Ed.), Hannover 1992
Franz Erhard Walther, Der Oldenburger Block, Hamburg 1992