A.H. studied at University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany and Hamburg University where she later founded the off-gallery heimArt in 1987 with a group of likewise artists.

She moved to Berlin in 1985, where she worked first as a film journalist, for the Berlin state programme Sender Freies Berlin and later as part of the Programme Organisation and guest service at the Berlinale. From 1992 to 2002 she lived and worked both in Berlin and in China, operating for various television productions for Chinese TV stations in Fujian.

In 2000 she co-founded the photo agency Chinapix Ltd. in Hong Kong, together with international partners. Before she took over the management of the Hessen Film and Media Academy in August 2008, she was employed for five and a half years as the Organizational Manager of Filmfest Hamburg GmbH.

As an independent cultural manager she has furthermore realized various intercultural exhibitions, readings and small film series (mostly on Chinese topics).

• She helds courses and workshops in English and German at numerous Universities to enhance communicational skills such as negotiation, presentation and networking.
• She is author of a book about successful female negotiation strategies: "Denn Sie wissen, was Sie tun. Wie Frauen erfolgreich verhandeln." (in German language, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt)
• 2020-2022 Jury member for Hessischer Film- und Kinopreises
• 2019-2023 she served as elected lay assessor at the district court of Frankfurt am Main,
  
• She is a member in the English speaking Toastmaster Club Frankfurt,
  
• and active as well in 2 women's networks:
  the European Women’s Management Development International Network (EWMD) and the Digital Media Women (#DMWrm).
• In 2013 she was part of the advisory committee for the system accreditation of Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart.
  In 2024 part of the advisory committee for the system accreditation of Hochschule Macromedia