Born in Langenhagen in 1975, studied physics in Erlangen and Hamburg. She took her PhD degree in theoretical elementary particle physics in 2004 and subsequently became a research student at Hamburg Media School. Her graduation film "Memoryeffekt" was screened in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2007. In 2001 she began working as a video artist for stage director Nicolas Stemann. With him she recently collaborated on a production of Schillers "The Robbers" at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.

Her second film, the documentary "Hans im Glück" (2009) dealt with the eventful life of Berlin musician Hans Narva and premiered at the Berlin IFF.
This was followed three years later by "Schilf – Alles, was denkbar ist, exisitiert", an adaptation of Juli Zeh's eponymous novel. In the thriller, Mark Waschke plays a physics professor, whose son is kidnapped and in the subsequent search for his child thinks to have found the proof for the existence of parallel universes.