Since 2010: Editor, Hamburger Edition
2008–2009: Editor-in-chief, Arche Literatur Verlag, Hamburg and Zürich, and Atrium Verlag, Zürich
2005–2008: Editor-in-chief, Atrium Verlag, Zürich
2001–2005: Editor-in-chief, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag
1997–2001: Freelance editor for the publishing houses Rowohlt Verlag, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburger Edition
Formerly a lecturer in German literature and language at universities and institutions in Hamburg, Prague, and Lille
MA degree in contemporary German literature, theater studies, and political science, University of Hamburg, and doctoral degree in German literature from the University of Hamburg (1999) with a thesis on the connections between number theory and writing systems (“Die De-Chiffrierung der Schrift oder Die transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit des Weiblichen im System der Zeichen”)