About me

I’m the youngest of three children and was born in 1968 in a small town at the Teutoburg Forest, Germany, where I grew up enjoying the loving care of my parents and the enriching society of my two siblings.

Even when I was a child, I was extremely interested in exploring the question “Why does the world look the way it does?” This is why atlases and globes were my constant companions and the former were always to be found under my bed. When it was already long past “lights out” time, I loved to forage through them and take another quick trip around the world before falling asleep.

Furthermore, I had already announced at the age of five that, “I’m off now to make my mark in the wide, wide world,” – whatever I actually understood that to mean at such a tender age. Other than greatly amusing my family, nothing came of it at first. Nevertheless, the fascination remained and consequently, I went on to study geography and geology and became particularly enthralled with mineralogy. Even back then, I could spend hours examining the multitude of colors and shapes, spellbound by the luminescent interplay of colors in a rock crystal, or delving into the exact geometry of a piece of pyrite, and all the while, simply delighting in their beauty.

A further passion of mine – travelling – led me professionally into the world of sales. At first, I journeyed in matters of tea, and later traversed all over the globe for years in the world of industrial packaging.

However, I did not encounter the impetus for my sudden (and late) professional about face whilst exploring the wide, wide world, but instead in a shop window right across the street from the flat where I was living at the time in Bern.

A serene, delicate, and oh so natural looking little bird was sitting right there, gleaming at me for all the world as if it had been waiting just for me. It was love at first sight. What appealed to me the most was the figure’s unpolished ruggedness. The unadulterated minerals set in this new context unfolded a unique effect.

A short time later, I was not only the richer for having an enchanting new “room mate”, and the address of its creator, but also with the inner certainty of where my next journey should take me.

Then everything happened very fast.

I packed my bags, said goodbye to my well-paying Swiss job, and began apprenticing in the atelier from Peter Würgler.

Meanwhile, I’m once again living in my favorite city of Freiburg, Germany where I’m working in a small atelier. Here, with ever growing enthusiasm I’m creating hand-made, one-of-a-kind works from unpolished minerals, and am thrilled anew each time one of them captures the heart of an admirer and sets off on its own journey into the wide, wide world.