a life formed by the sea:

• born 10 September 1946 on the German North Sea (East Frisian) Island of Juist
• childhood and youth in East Frisia on the German North Sea coast
• Comprehensive studies of a wide variety of sciences at the University of Hamburg: Physics, Chemistry, Oceanography, Zoology, Geology (major study areas :Ice Age and Marine Geology)
• 1973 Diploma in Geology
• 1979 Doctoral Examination as Dr. rer. nat. (Sc.D.)

  employment at the former Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut (German Institute of Hydrographics), today Bundesanstalt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (Federal Institute for Sea Navigation and Hydrography)and Geologisches Landesamt (State Institute of Geology), both in Hamburg.

Since the beginning of the 1980s gradual movement towards journalism

• 1983 post-graduate scholarship from Robert Bosch Foundation at Deutsche Presse-Agentur/German Press Agency (dpa) and the weekly paper Die Zeit
• 1984-1991 editor of the scientific service of dpa
• since 1991 freelance journalist, texts and photography
• during that time a number of scientific TV-features for Norddeutscher Rundfunk/North German Radio (NDR), among others Extinction of the Dinosaurs, Natural Catastrophies, Pollution of the Arctic)

Since 1993 I have lived with my wife for most part of the year in Tromso/Northern Norway and report by way of texts and photographs for German and Swiss media on people and places of the North, of sciences, nature, travels and free time.

I have been photographing since my childhood, initially in black and white in medium format, since about 1970 colour slides in 35-mm format, since 2003 only digital.

My first 35-mm equipment was a Bessamatic, later I moved from Yashica to Contax and Leica. Right from the start my centre of interest has always been the photography of nature. My favourite lenses are strong wide angles and long focal lengths.

My present equipment comprises of::

• one Canon EOS 5D and one Canon EOS 1 Mark III
• lenses from fisheye to 600 mm

Activities:

agencies:

• I take photographs for several agencies in Germany, Norway and Japan

Exhibitions:

• 1998 "Striking Arctic" together with Tromso fotoclubben on the occasion of the meeting of the Antarctic Treaty States in Tromsø
• 1999 "Arctic Moments" together with Tromsø fotoclubben at Alfred Wegener Institut für Polarforschung (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research) in Bremerhaven/Germany
• 2000 "Ice Edge" at the University of Svalboard/Norway: Biological research in the Arctic with the Norwegian Polar Institute
• 2000 / 2001 "Arctic dreams", exhibition in Tromsø
• 2001 / 2002 "Northern lights - paintings of the sun"
  in Polaria, Tromsø
• 2004 "Northern lights - paintings of the sun", Galerie molitoris Hamburg
• 2004 / 2005 "Northern lights - paintings of the sun", NABU Hamburg
• 2005 "Northern lights", Kuusamo, Finland
• 2006 "Northern lights", Merchweiler, Germany
• 2007 "A summer with red-throated diver", Hamburg, Germany
• 2007 "Northern lights", DESY Hamburg, Germany
• 2008 "Northern lights - sun´s art", HSH Bank Hamburg, Germany. Special conditions for sale of exhibition pictures.
• 2008 "A summer with red-throated divers", Tromso, Norway