Director of the State Museum of Egyptian Art, Schoske studied in Egyptology, Classical and Christian Archaeology at the universities in Heidelberg, Hamburg and Munich from 1974 to 1982 and earned her PhD at Heidelberg University in 1982.
She first worked as Curator at the Museum and became the Director in 1989, where she was responsible for curating more than 60 exhibitions covering areas such as the culture, art and religion of ancient Egypt, the ancient culture of Sudan, the dialogue between ancient Egypt and contemporary art, and the literature of Thomas Mann. She has edited and published several articles and around 25 exhibition catalogues and also teaches at the universities in Munich, Augsburg and Passau.
In 2005, she organised in the planning of the new building of the Museum, which opened in 2013 and where she is responsible for curating permanent exhibitions and handling media-related issues and publications. Since 2013, she was appointed Head of the Museum’s excavation project in Naga, the capital of Sudan .