Born 1942 in Zurich, Switzerland.  Speaks German, English, French, Italian Spanish, Hebrew, Russian.

Writes poetry in German and Hebrew. Is a member of the “LYRIS” group (Israeli poets writing in German).

Works as musician, painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet in Jerusalem.

1949 – 1961      Primary and High Schools, Zurich, Switzerland

1967 – 1971      Voice studies at the Music Academies Berne, Basle and Jerusalem

1972 – 1992      Participated in international master classes in Europe and Israel

1982 – 1985      Music Therapy studies at the Institute of Remedial Therapies, Jerusalem

Since 1971 has been teaching voice and gave voice workshops.  From 1983 worked as music therapist in special education schools with severely handicapped children.

1992 – 1996      Joseph Hirsch, Jerusalem                                  Drawing

1993 – 1997      Jan Rauchwerger, Tel Aviv                                 Painting

Spring  1995     Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China                Trad. Chinese Painting

Autumn 1998     Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem          Print Techniques

2007 – 2010      Jerusalem Art Center, Jerusalem                     Museology

"DIE FRAU MIT DER LOTOSBLUME", Documentary, rain-Stein-Verlag Berlin                          2020

“HERBSTBRAND”  and “ROSTIGE ZEITEN”, rain-Stein-Verlag Berlin                                          2010, 2011

Selected poems in German and Hebrew have been published in anthologies in Germany and Israel.

Literary Price "STIFTUNG KREATIVES ALTER"', Zürich                    Oktober                                          2022
Literary Price “Baumstiftung”  Berlin, Germany                             May                                                 2016

Artists Village Schöppingen, Germany                                             June/July                                         2012

POETRY EVENINGS:  

Société Genevoise d'Études Allemandes, University of Geneva              March                                  2023

Berlin, Brandenburg, Kassel and at the Jerusalem Goethe Institute                                       2003 – 2016

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:   (selection)

Primobuch Gallery, Berlin, Germany                                       2022

Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv                                                     2019, 2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2008

Zaritzky Artists House, Tel Aviv                                                  2017, 2011

Primobuch-Galerie, Berlin, Germany                                        2016

Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem           2014, 2009, 2005, 2003, 2001

Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany                        2012

Espace 10 Gallery, Jerusalem                                                     2012

Stiftung Schloss Gollwitz, Brandenburg, Germany                 2011

Ghetto-Museum Theresienstadt, Czech Republic                  2010

Tel Aviv Opera House, Tel Aviv                                                  2009

Targ Music Centre, Ein Karem, Jerusalem                               2003, 2001