About me

1958 - born on the 4th of July to a little town in the north of East Germany
1970 - joining the wind orchestra of my school to learn how play the clarinet
1975 - moving to Jena (Thuringia) to become an optician

- joining another wind orchestra as well as several smaller bands

- playing for dancing
November 1977 to April 1979 I doing my military draft
1980 – I got introduced to the tenor banjo and played for one year with the Jenaer Dixielanders
1981 – one day before my 23th birthday, got my first 5-string banjo, brand: Musima

1982 – 1984 I started founding my first band
Dec.12, 1984 – first official performance of the Fox Tower Bluegrass Band
July 1988 – I became a freelanced musician
Nov.9, 1989 the Berlin wall fell – the world was open
August 1991 – the Fox Tower Bluegrass Band decided to have a break
1992 – my first trip to the USA – I took part in the Tennessee Banjo Institute
1996 – my first US Tour (with Andy's Breakdown)
1997 – the Fox Tower Bluegrass Band was back on stage
1998 – first US Tour of the Fox Tower Bluegrass Band, I got my Nechville Nextar Galaxy Banjo and play it ever since
1999 – We received the Best of Texas Award as the best international bluegrass band
2004/5 – I work as a translator for an American E-book company

since 2005 – I write crime novels and short stories – some are published as ebooks and print books
2014 – the first children story about the koala albino girl Pinky Flee was published and the children shows about her started – a CD will be released at the end of November
2010 – I was conducted in the “Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame” in Iowa, USA
besides Germany so far I have toured half of Europe, Australia, Mexico and several times the USA
to be continued

Projects I have also played or I'm still playin with:

A list of non German musicians I have toured with: