Sabine Heller was born in 1956 in East Berlin. Her apprenticeship as a carpenter was followed from 1976 to 1981 by studies in ceramic design at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1984 to 1989 she lived and worked in the artists’ community at Burg Goldbeck in Brandenburg. Since 1989 Heller has run a workshop with Tomas Grzimek in Sieversdorf in the Oderbruch (Brandenburg), where she lives today.