Born 1936 in Zurich/Switzerland.
Studied photography.
From 1956-1963 camera assistant on documentaries and features.
1964 camera assistant and cutter's assistant on the film, «Les Apprentis», by Alain Tanner.
Co-camera und cutter on the film, «Ursula oder das unwerte Leben», by Reni Mertens and Walter Marti.

2006 DIE VITUSMACHER (documentary)

2004 WÄG VO DE GASS (documentary)

2002 SCHREIBEN GEGEN DEN TOD

1999 EINE LIEBE ZUR CHEMIE
(TV portrait of Leo Sternbach) co-scriptwriter, direction
1984-88 SCHWEIZERMACHER 2 (follow-on project), scriptwriting
SWISS PARADISE, scriptwriting
1994 EIN KLARER FALL (feature)
1993 SCHWEIZERMACHER 2 outline, research work
1992 EIN TROMMLER IN DER WÜSTE (documentary)
(Award for Quality FDI)
1990 IGOR DER STARKE, scriptwriting
1989 LEO SONNYBOY (feature) (Award for Quality FDI, Prix du public, Festival International du film de Comédie Vevey)
1983 TEDDY BÄR (feature)
(Award for Quality FDI, Jury Award, Festival International du Film de Comédie Vevey)
1981 KASSETTENLIEBE (CASSETTE LOVE AFFAIR)(feature)
1978 DIE SCHWEIZERMACHER (THE SWISSMAKERS)(feature)
(Award for Quality FDI, Prix de la critique et du film d‘art et d‘essai à Chamrousse,
Film Guild Award of deutschen Filmkunsttheater)
1975-77 EIN WALZER FÜR MEINE MUTTER feature film script
DAS HAUS UND DIE ANDERN feature film script,
after a novel by Gerold Späth
HÖLDERLIN feature film script, after a novel by Peter Härtling, for Ullstein AV
MARIGNANO feature film script
1982 KONFRONTATION (feature) (Award for Quality FDI)
1973 various contributions as author and director for the Swiss Filmwochenschau.
1971 VITA PARCOEUR (short film) (Award for Quality FDI, Jury Award Sports Film Festival Oberhausen)
1968 EUGEN HEISST WOHLGEBOREN (feature)

T H E A T R E  P R O D U C T I O N S

1992 JEANMAIRE - EIN STÜCK SCHWEIZ by Urs Widmer.
Theater in der Bundesstadt, Bern.
1991 UND IIICH by Maria Pacôme, in the translation by Urs Widmer.
Hechtplatztheater, Zürich.
1990 ALLES KLAR by Urs Widmer. Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich.