Born in 1964, grown up in North Germany, lived in Brazil between 1980 - 1982. In 1987, she stayed there with the "Canela", an indigenous people. In a tribal ceremony, she received her Indian name "Crowky" referring to an old myth of a young girl transformed into a buriti palm. As sign of her cosmopolitan personality, she speaks fluently German, Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, 1986 - 1990. Thereafter, she lived and worked as sculptress in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Since then, she received several art awards and regularly exhibited her work in various galleries, on art fairs, and in museums. She has been a regular attendee at the Darmstadt Secession of Arts, and a teacher in wood carving at the University of Darmstadt. Broad recognition earned her public exhibitions of large-scale sculptures at various locations in the Rhine-Main area. Since 2017, she lives and works in Berlin. Social activities are complementing her creative work.

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