I was born in 1971 in Zwickau, Saxony, then German Democratic Republic. I studied Medieval History, Art History, Romance literature and language and a little bit Catholic Theology in Munster and Eichstatt. My prime research project was the Order of the Knights Templar, and so I wrote my thesis about the proceedings against the Order. I graduated in 2000 and published my findings finally in 2002. I live in Hamburg since 2003, together with my husband and my cat "Mr. Spock." Here I work as supervisor of the media center at the Institut of Art History. In my spare time I continue research in the