In my work I incorporate a sharp social critique, which focuses on social and cultural traumas rather than on private issues. This is the dark side of our consumer society we all live in. To be exeedingly comical, burlesque, dark humor has the subversive edge. I like grotesque aesthetics. My works are very close to filmstills, like modern theater and when I´m painting I slip into a role to imagine and create the strange creatures I paint in my work. Sometimes the same idea pops up less unchanged year after year. In my paintings I have comic characters and stereotypes which enable me to assume a persona – a role while painting. The titles of my pictures are elements of the painting, the words function as a visual element. I studied in Nürnberg, free painting, made an education in Bayreuth for Theater Stage. I often make Installations with puppets and costumes to have a Theater with my paintings. It is much fun to create an installation.