About myself

1958 – born in Demmin (north eastern Germany)
with 12 I joined the school orchestra to learn how play the clarinet
1975 – I moved to Jena (Thuringia) to become an optician
November 1977 – April 1979 – I had to join the army
1980 – I got an offer to play tenor banjo with the Jenaer Dixielanders for one year
1981 – I 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 time the US
to be continued

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

A list of non German musicians I have toured with: