Erika Stürmer-Alex was born in 1938 in Wriezen (Brandenburg). From 1958 to 1963 she studied at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. In 1982 she moved to Lietzen (Brandenburg). From 1992 to 1995 she gave courses and was later a teacher at the Music and Art School in Frankfurt an der Oder. She won the Prize of the State of Brandenburg in 1992 and in 1993 a stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2015 she was honoured with the Brandenburg Art Prize for her life’s work. Stürmer-Alex lives and works in Lietzen.