Higher Education

Magister Artium History of Natural Science and Technology and History and specialization in Traffic Engineering from the Univ. Stuttgart

Professional Activities

Curator for crafts, woodworking, textile technology, machine elements and metalworking at Deutsches Museum, Munich

Proven science Assistant and research assistant Employee at the Institute for Mechanical Design and Transmission Engineering (IMK), research and teaching area of ​​technical design at the University of Stuttgart.

Freelance technology and science historian; Traineeship at the Deutsches Museum

Current projects:

• Digital exhibition project on the "fiberglass dress"
  Use of material models in the technical, scientific and museum knowledge transfer
  Material stories: materials - provenance research - from colonial contexts
  Exhibition project "Production"

Completed projects:

• New concept and opening of the new exhibition Kinderreich (opening 2022)
• Exhibition project "Light as a tool" - The laser in various applications (2008-2016)
• Collaboration and coordination/project management at the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum (Halls I and II; opening 2006)
• Collaboration on the special exhibition "Bavaria steam pot, Mahler's Eighth and the moon rocket - The hundred-year history of the historic exhibition halls (June 12th - September 28th, 2008)

• Kids’ Kingdom. In: Culture and Technology 2022, Issue 4: The new exhibitions, pp. 6-9.
• So that everything flows. Modern systems for controlling traffic flows. In: Culture and Technology 30 (2006), H. 2, pp. 26-30.
• The Technical University of Stuttgart as a recipient of foundation funds. On the importance and influence of industrial foundations in the development of aviation and automotive technology at the TH Stuttgart from 1909 to 1939. In: Flöter, Jonas/Ritzi, Christian (eds.): Educational patronage. Private action – civic spirit – cultural competence since the early modern period. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007, pp. 403-416 (= contributions to historical educational research 33).
• Meighörner, Wolfgang (ed.): Pioneers of industrial design on Lake Constance. With texts by Hartmut Seeger, Ralf Spicker and others. Friedrichshafen 2003. [Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pioneers of Industrial Design on Lake Constance", July 4th - October 12th, 2003, in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen].