I have been writing ever since I once learned this technique, and inventing stories - to my parents' chagrin - long before that. Unfortunately, it did not occur to me always for many years; I happened to suffer from fits of creativity which I had to neglect compared to the efforts I put into my studies and my job.

Those fits have paid off finally: my first big novel project Der Tribun (The Tribune) earned me a contract with the Literary Agency Andreas Brunner (formerly Literary Agency Diana Voigt), Vienna, to whose regular clients I may count myself now.

In September 1999, I joined a writers group who fortunately cooperated via means of the internet, and I was involved during one of the most decisive periods of their evolution: the 42erAutoren, a mailing list still active whose members discuss poetic and prosaic texts once a week, grew into an association named 42erAutoren e.V. - Verein zur Förderung der Literatur in which - after a one-year-break - I work as a member of the managing board. The association was originally founded to pay webspace for a site which I signed responsible for those days. But by forming this organisation the core members of the group became quite close. We started thinking about new and pretty high-flown ideas like organizing lectures, planning and projecting a series of anthologies, contacting publishers and agents, a professional staff for editing texts, an authors' school ... And in slowly succeeding we are proved right.

Summer 2002 I joined Quo vadis, an association of writers of historic fiction in German speaking countries; other members are Titus Müller, Sabine Wassermann, Karola Hagemann and Ilka Stitz - alias Malachy Hyde, Brigitte Riebe, Kari Köster-Lösche, Tilman Röhrig and many more.

Besides I am a member of another writers group called Projekt Phoenix.

On this site, you can find three short stories of mine (in German), Freundin (A Friend), Kanakenbrut (Wogs' Brood) und Sonntagsspaziergang (A Sunday Walk) as well as a synopsis of my historic novel Der Tribun (The Tribune) and some book reviews (in German) which have been published elsewhere as well.