1972-1976 // Study of social pedagogy in Düsseldorf and Essen (graduate degree in social pedagogy)
1976-1982 // Study of philosophy, Protestant theology, social sciences, and educational science in Bochum, Essen, and Duisburg (First State Examination)
1982-1983 // Research assistant at GH Duisburg in the field of philosophy. Research projects: didactics of philosophy / typescripts of letters by F. H. Jacobi
1983-2002 // Senior teacher at the municipal Krupp Gymnasium in Duisburg / Member of the Academic Examination Office for the First State Examination at the Duisburg/Essen Examination Office
1989-2018 // Teaching assignments in the field of philosophy and its didactics
at the universities of Essen/Duisburg/Siegen as well as at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter
1990-2012 // Subject advisor to the school supervisory authority of the Düsseldorf district government in Protestant religious education / curriculum development and curriculum implementation
1991 // Doctorate in philosophy
Title of the dissertation: J. G. Fichte’s popular-philosophical writings (philosophy of history, education, and religion); awarded by the University-GH-Duisburg in 1991
1993 // Collaboration on the publication of “Fichte-Studien”
2002-2017
- Director of Studies at the teacher training seminar in Essen (ZfsL) as subject seminar leader and head seminar leader (social sciences and general didactics / organization of pedagogical days for trainee teachers)
- 2002/2003 Training as a play educator at the Academy of Arts in Remscheid.
- 2015/2016 Training in person-oriented counseling with coaching elements (PobC)
2003-2015 // Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International J. G. Fichte Society and co-editor of Fichte-Studien and Fichte-Studien-Supplementa