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| Born in Hamburg. Daughter of a lawyer and an art dealer | |
| 1976–1985 | International modeling career; after living in London, Paris, and Milan studied graphic design at the Kunstschule Alsterdamm in Hamburg for two years. Part-time work as an assistant producer in television |
| 1984–1986 | she travelled around the world |
| 1986 | Breakthrough as a photographer with a report on Herbert Grönemeyer on the cover of Stern magazine |
| 1987 | Birth of her son |
| Since 1988 | Numerous photo series of tennis legend Boris Becker (published in Stern, Max, L’Uomo Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair among others) |
| GABO has received several distinctions for her work including the Kodak Prize and the Italian television prize “Premio Vendere a Argento” | |
| 1989–2007 | Commissioned to do reports (including on AIDs in Uganda, rain forests, and German bars), advertising (including the German Euro, Dresdner Bank, the Post, Diademine, Gala Coffee, ZDF, Recaro), fashion (Yorn, Otto Kern, Joop, Joseph Janard), and especially magazine covers like Stern, Spiegel, L’Uomo Vogue, Rolling Stone and many more. Portraits (Kevin Costner, Eric Clapton, Natalia Wörner, Veronica Ferres, Nina Hagen, Heino Ferch, Moritz Bleibtreu, Franca Potente) among many other international stars |
| 2006 | Mid-life retrospectives at Gallery Camera Work, Hamburg, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna |
| Schloss Tuessling | |
| Akademie der bilden Künste, Wien | |
| 2005 | Camerawork Hamburg |