 During the invasion of the Red Army towards Königsberg she fled to Wilhelmshaven in the North of Germany with her mother.As a child of a midwife and a policeman she had no possibility to visit a university to study arts and therefore decided to learn the artisanry of a photographer.After a three-year traineeship at Oldenburg/Germany she traveled to numerous places in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland to work as a portrait photographer.