Born 1940, Berlin. School education in Bremen, university education in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin, studied Sinology, with Japanology and Journalism as subsidiary subjects. Worked on a dissertation on the novel Nieh-Hai Hua by Tseng-P’u (1905) until 1969.
1975: Graduation as external student from Folkwangschule, Essen. 1969—1973 member of Stern editorial in Hamburg. Since then self-employed.
Since 1981 contract author for publishers Little, Brown & Co./New York Graphic Society, Boston, Mass. Professor for Media Design at the HBK Braunschweig.
Lived abroad for 12 years altogether, in Italy, Australia and the USA. In 2002 organised major retrospective of Hajek-Halke at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
