Born 1950 in Singen (Germany). 1970-76 studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between (masters: Peter Brünning, Joseph Beuys) 1972 As a member of the League Against Imperialism and the Vietnam Committee of the Kunstakademie, sentenced to 7 months with a 3-year suspension; Commencement of agitational art – works on paper 1977–81 Landscape and cemetary gardener in Büderich near Düsseldorf 1980 Presents his shadow cuttings for the first time in Bochum 1981 Work for the FIU (Free International University) 1982 Documenta 7: “I killed Anne Frank” 1988 German Pavilion of the 43rd Venice Biennale: “House of Weaponlessness” 1991–95 AB (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) “Disorderliness equals its Measure or Proportion”, Zürich, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Budapest, Antwerp, Sarajevo, Belgrade 1997 Pictures of Germany – Art from a Country Divided, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2000 Art for Everyone, From DEM 5 and Up, Museum Marl, Marl 2001 Carved in Wood, Museum Bochum, Bochum Schnittlinien. Ludwig Museum Budapest