Studied history/combined studies specializing in contemporary history and Spanish (master's degree 1999); since 1992 culture communicator in various exhibitions (Lower Austrian State Exhibitions, Künstlerhaus, Museum Niederösterreich); 2000 Austrian Historical Commission; 2001–14 historian in the General Settlement Fund; since 2015 provenance researcher in the State Collections of Lower Austria employed by the Danube University Krems.
The Benedictine Abbey Göttweig, founded in 1083 by Bishop Altmann of Passau, was subjected to reprisals by the local Nazi authorities shortly after Austria's annexation to the Nazi German Reich in March 1938 and was confronted with dem