Anke grew up on a farm in Northern Germany where she studied Agriculture. She immigrated to Canada in 1985, where she and her husband Harro built up a farm near Kincardine, Ontario. For the last thirty years

their farming consists of Organic Production. In 2005, Anke was introduced to Pottery after a bad car accident. She took classes with Ruth Dalton in Ripley. Pottery was her new passion and it felt

like therapy. After her health improved it was back to farming with little time to play with clay and she almost stopped. Fortunately, that all changed when, in the summer of 2017, she took part in a throwing camp at Haliburton School of Art and Design. At first, Anke made functional pieces but gradually became more curious about the aspect of the abstract and artistic side of the ceramic world after studying under Christopher Reid Flock, at Mohawk college.