About me


     


30/9/62 Born in Schlema (GDR), just opposite to the strongest uranium mine in the world
1979 - 1981 Trainee as a maintenance engineer
1979 - 1991 Songwriter, lyricist, guitar player, performer
1982 - 1986 Gardener at a cemetery and undertaker
1984 - 1986 Student of religious social work in Potsdam (unfinished)
Since 1987 First publications in anthologies
1991 - 1993 Trainee as a creative social therapist
Since 1991 Art projects:
Rock music with Thomas Ihl
Literary music program solo
Composer/ Musician in a freelance theatre company
"Sound Images" - Installation of living pictures out of music
"Little Big Noise EARchestra", Trash Art Music
Since 1994 Freelance trainer for music therapy and perception training
International music project "Long Ears - Easter Island"
1994 - 2000 Several long journeys in the South Pacific
1995 First CD published:
"Rapa Nui - Music and Natural Sounds"
1997 - 2000 Music therapist in psychiatric hospitals in Halle and Leipzig
Since 1995 Slide-music-shows about Easter Island
1997 Participation in the 3rd International Convention on the Cultural History of the Pacific in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA)
1999 Research trip to New Zealand, lectures
1999 - 2001 Publication of three more World-music-CDs
2000 Research trip to Patagonia/ Tierra del Fuego, lectures
Participation in the 4th International Convention on the Cultural History of the Pacific in Big Island/ Hawai'i
Photographic exhibitions in Leipzig, Santiago de Chile and Hawai'i
My pictures of Easter Island shown in US-TV

2001
Preparation of new projects and trips to Panama, Mexico
Publication of the Travel Story "Extreme Osterinsel"
2002 Publication of the second book: "Mir brauchn kaa' Südsee", Interviews
Preparation and production of the first Guitar-CD
2003 Publication of the first Guitar-CD "AudioAnomalie"
2004 New projekt: Big Cities Latin Amerika, first step:
Research trip to Panama City and Mexico City, lectures
Publication of the Maxi-CD "Mata Ki Te Rangi" with Thomas Ihl
Big Cities Latin Amerika, second step: Buenos Aires, Montevideo (with a second trip to Tierra del Fuego until january 2005); lectures
Some photographic exhibitions in Germany
2005 Research trip to the Azores, lectures
Publication of the second Guitar-Double-CD "TransPacific"
including "The Panama Canal Reconstruction Suite"
Preparation of the first Rock-Song-CD
2006 Research trip to Russia, Lituvia and Poland, lectures
Publication of the 9th CD "EreignisHorizont" (german rock songs)
2007 Photo trip to Malta, lectures
Publication of the 10th CD "Parallel Universe Edition"
2008 Preparation of the 11th CD "Brachial Meditation"
Photo trip to Moscow, lectures
Research trip to Chile: Atacama desert
2009 Research trip to Chile: Cities of the North, lectures
Photo trip to New York, lectures
Photo trip to Hong Kong/ China, lectures
2010 Research trip to Tahiti, Tuamotus and Marquesas Islands, lectures
Photo trip to Santorini/ Greece, lectures
2011 Photo trip to Vienna/ Austria, part 1 + 2
Research trip to Nepal: Kathmandu + Lukla, Everest, lectures
2012 Photo trip to Vienna/ Austria, part 3
Photo trip to the Bretagne/ France
Photo trip to Santiago de Chile, part 8