2000-2005 Schweiger studies visual arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste, UdK) under Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter
2002 trip to Iceland as a student
2002-2003 one-year stay in Iceland: exchange student at the Reykjavik art academy Listaháskóli íslands under conceptual artist Tumi Magnússon and landscape artist Anna Guijónsdóttir, who lives in Hamburg; six-month stay in Akureyri
