• 1979 Diploma in Law D.E.U.G., University of Paris I – Sorbonne (Université de Paris I - Sorbonne Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires, mention Droit)
• 1982 First State Law Examination, University of Mainz
• 1986 Second State Law Examination, Higher Regional Court, Frankfurt
• 1983 - 1985 Associate at the law firm of Franzen und Partner, Wiesbaden
• 1986 Associate at the firm of Guy & Gilbert, Montréal, Québec Canada
• 1986 - 1988 Lawyer for RTLplus in Luxemburg
• 1988 - 2000 latterly Director Legal Affairs RTL Deutschland, Cologne
• since 1994 Advisory Board Member of the Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH (VFF), the collecting society for film and television producers
• 1998 - 2001 expert on intellectual property for the European Phare and Tacis Programme in various Eastern European Countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine)
• since 2000 Attorney at the law firm Loitz in Cologne
• since 2006 Attorney at UNVERZAGT VON HAVE

Publications

• "So wehrt man sich gegen Ladendiebe – Arbeitsweise und Abwehr professioneller Ladendiebe" (How to protect yourself against shoplifters – the working methods and defences against professional shoplifters), BBE-Verlag, Cologne 1987
• "Eine juristische Gebrauchsanleitung für die Gestaltung von Sponsor-Hinweisen" (A Legal Instruction Manual for Creating References To Sponsors", TeleImages 1992
• "Publicité et Audiovisuel: La Réglementation du contenu du message publicitaire en Allemagne" (Advertising and the Audio Visual: the Regulation of Content in Advertising Messages in Germany” Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille Economica, Aix-en-Provence / Paris 1993
• "Vergleichende Werbung: Der neue Werbespaß" (Comparative Advertising: the New Advertising Jape), TeleImages 1999
• "Gesichtsdiebstahl und Namensklau - Testimonialwerbung", (Theft of Face and Theft of Name: Testimonial Advertising”) TeleImages 2001
• "Werberecht A-Z", "The A-Z of Advertising Law” Rundfunkwerberecht (Broadcast Advertising Law), Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2004
• "Untersuchung zur Entwicklung neuer Werbetechniken in Deutschland", (Study on the Development of New Advertising Techniques in Germany) Report for the European Commission, 2004

Lectures and talks  

• Various lecturing activities and talks, including:
• HFF –University of Film and Television, Munich
• Düsseldorf Polytechnic, Media Department
• School of Journalism, Cologne
• "Towards a European advertising regime", MedienForum (Media Forum) Berlin Brandenburg, 1995
• "How Will Relations between Cable Operators and Programme Providers develop in the Next Five Years?", European Cable Communication Exhibition, London 1995
• Copyright Protection of TV-broadcasts, Ukraine: “Practical Aspects of the Cooperation between Cable Operators, Programme Providers and Rightholders and Satellite Broadcasting and the Relation between Cable Operators and Rightholders", Kiev und Yalta, Ukraine 2001
• Cable & Copyright in the Digital Era, ECCA Conference, Prague, 2003
• Memberships
• Cologne Lawyers Association