| Date of birth | September 11, 1950 |
| Place of birth | Halle/Saale |
| 1969 | High School graduation (Max-Klinger-Schule Leipzig) |
| 1969-73 | Study of physics at the University of Leipzig |
| 1973-76 | Research scholarship University of Leipzig |
| 1974 | Diploma in Physics "Zur Phononeninstabilität beim Metall-Isolator-Übergang" |
| 1977 | Doctor of Physics "Beiträge zur näherungsweisen Lösung des Hubbardmodelles für die Beschreibung eines Metall-Isolator-Überganges" |
| 1987 | Facultas docendi in Theoretical Physics |
| 1990 | Habilitation "Rauschinduzierte Übergänge in physikalischen Modellsystemen unter Einfluss diskreter stochastischer Prozesse" |
| 1991/92 | Guest Professor at the University of Bochum, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Winter semester) |
| 1993 | Guest Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Institute for Theoretical Physics (February/March 93) |
| 1993-96 | Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Leipzig and of the Council of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences |
| 1996 | Extraordinary Professor, University of Leipzig, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| 2005-3/2016 | Speaker of the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| 4/2016 | retired |