Biographie

2016
Release of “beide” EP and album “Doppelstern” on monika, touring
2015
Finishing “Doppelstern”, Choir Work “Fragen an das Licht” for the Zero retrospective/ Martin Gropius Bau + Atonal Festival Berlin
2014
Recordings for “Doppelstern”, Musical Direction Radioplay “Qualitätskonrolle” by Rimini Protokoll, Production of “Stille Vann” – female Bandproject by barner 16
2013
Musical direction for “Qualitätskontrolle” by Rimini Protokoll, Staatstheater Stuttgart
Choir work (“California”/HKW, “Virtuosity”/Kammermusiksaal Berliner Philharmonie, etc.)
2012
Release of the album “Sweet Silence” and live shows
Musical direction and choir work for “Lagos Business Angels” by Rimini Protokoll, HAU 1, Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2011
Project “only my pen tolerates my choices”; live performance of poems written by afghan women, published at the “Afghan Women Writing Project” (http://awwproject.org) in Amsterdam, directed by Krystian Lada (Visuals: Lida Wilkosz)
Choir work for “Das Bergwerk”, by Michal Walczak, at the Grillo Theater in Essen, Germany
2010
Release of my “best-of” album “Fan No. 2” on Monika Enterprise & touring
2008
Release of “bm” on Monika Enterprise & live shows
2007
Choir conductor at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” (House of World Cultures), Berlin
Recording of “Paper of Pins” and concerts with Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead and Stefan Schneider
2006
USA Tour with The Mountain Goats
2005-2006
More releases on Monika, e.g. with Robert Lippok and September Collective
2003-2004
World Tour with Maximilian Hecker – organized by the German Goethe Institut, 34 concerts worldwide (Journal 1, Journal 2)
2002
Recording with Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot)
Foundation of September Collective – an electronic improvisation project with Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot) and Paul Wirkus
1999-2002
Touring in Europe, partially with To Rococo Rot and Blumfeld
More releases on Monika (s. discography)
1998
Release of “Vermona ET6-1” – my first record on Monika Enterprise, Berlin
1996
First solo recordings
1994
Move to Berlin, first solo performances in the so called Berlin “livingroom-scene”, founded by Joe Tabu. The concerts took place in his living room in Prenzlauer Berg, which was the beginning of a whole “livingroom-movement”
1992
Formation of my first band Ooze
Formation of Nautic United – a network of 9 musicians, where everyone played in at least two different bands; release of a selfdistributed compilation; various shows in Germany
1991-1992
Founder of the Hamburg based Accapella-Band Just 4
1991
Popmusic-Course at the University for Music and Fine Arts in Hamburg
1971
born on the 19th of March in Hagen/Westfalen, Germany