I was born in 1975 in Böblingen, near Stuttgart, and grew up in Mengen, a small town in Baden-Württemberg. Horses have always been my passion and my constant companions. So, of course, my horse had to move with me when, after graduating from high school in 1994, I decided to do an internship in the editorial department of the Schwäbische Zeitung in the town of Wangen im Allgäu.