(Exhibition Catalogue „ohne Grund“, Editor: galerie sybille nütt)
1972
Born in Borna near Leipzig
1987 - 1990
Night school at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (Dresden University of Visual Arts), class for painting and graphic
1993 - 2000
Studies at TU Dresden (Dresden University of Technologie) in subject architecture
1996 - 1997
Erasmus Scholarship at Universitad Polytechnica de Catalunia/ Barcelona, class with Prof. Enric Miralles
1997
Practical training for construction management at UFA “Kristallpalast” Dresden with COOP Himmelb(l)au, Vienna
2000
Diploma at TU Dresden (Dresden University of Technologie) at Prof. Gerald Staib: Die Dekonstruktion der barocken Falte – Ein neues Gebäude für den Neumarkt in Dresden (Deconstruction of the Baroque Fold – A New Building for the Dresden Neumarkt)
2000 - 2003
Project architect with Behnisch & Partner, Stuttgart
- At new construction of Akademie der Künste Berlin (Academy of the Arts, Berlin)
- At competition „Ozeaneum Stralsund“
2003
Formation „Atelier Michael Beckert“ (“Studio Michael Beckert“)
Studio scholarship “Villa Serpentara” in Olevano Romano, awarded by the Akademie der Künste Berlin (Academy of the Arts, Berlin)
Studio scholarship of the state Lower Austria in Krems, awarded by the „galerie stadtpark krems“
2006
Marriage with Susanne Fragel in Vienna
2007
Birth of son Franz Martin in Vienna
Member of the Architekten- und Ingenieurkonsulentenkammer Wien (Vienna Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineering Consulting)
Guest member of the Architektenkammer Sachsen (Saxon Chamber of Architects)
Doctorate at the ETH Zurich:
Grundlagenanalyse und exemplarische Konzeption einer
kommunikativen Raumform in der Architektur. (Basic analysis and exemplary conception of a communicative room design in architecture.)
Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt and Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund