On the surface, I have a technical degree. Graduate engineer in aerospace engineering.
But man thought - and God laughed
Into the end of my studies burst the 68 movement, I became a part of it and a life with blinkers was no longer possible.
I was lucky enough to hear the un-heard, to discover the un-seen, to experience the im-possible and above all to be impressed, to try myself out and to learn.
Since the age of 16, music has been the thickest common thread, which over the years has also sprawled into other artistic areas.
1982
Who is that, anyway?
It`s Me
1966 : Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
"Music expresses what cannot be said and what is impossible to be silent about."
The love of my parents places a human being in a world ablaze with fire
9.2.1943
Hello World
Here I am!
1948/49
Blockade
West Berlin is to be starved out and I am fascinated by the "raisin bombers".
17 June 1953
After an appendectomy, my bed is pushed into the corridor to make room for the gunshot wounded from East Berlin´s Stalinallee
1959
I get my first drum kit and music becomes a common thread in my life ...
1961
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, concert at Titania Palace. I don't understand a thing, but Black Music got me.
27 October 1961
World War III ?
American and Soviet tanks face each other, ready to fire. We travel there by underground. "We'll take a look at it".
Autumn 1962
It is certain
I'm going to study aerospace engineering. But at first it's not rockets and moon flights, but "solid" mechanical engineering.
July 1965
A new professor ...
... and new contents "System Analysis", "Project Management", "Programming". Farewell to the nerd ?
2 June 1967
Benno Ohnesorg shot
The university becomes a wasps' nest, many are disturbed, confused, discuss, get moving
Me too
Spring 1968
Prague Spring
The baffled postman brings the German-language "Prager Volkszeitung" to our shared flat every morning.
21 August 1968
Shock
Warsaw Pact tanks put a bloody end to the Prague Spring.
Sept./Oct. 1968
Student trip to the USA
The moon rocket on the launch pad, shaking hands with Wernher von Braun, the begging child in Wall Street, the violence-laden atmosphere in the cotton mill in Alabama ... ?????
1969
Technology with a human face
This is what the discussions with futurologist Robert Jungk revolve around in lecture halls, shared kitchens and elsewhere.
1971-1976
Assistant at the "Verkehrswesen-Seminar"
Wrested from the professors: Students can work on their professional situation and explore the social causes and consequences of technologies.
22 February 1977
Gorleben
A nuclear repository with a reprocessing plant is to be built on 12 square kilometres in the Wendland region of Lower Saxony.
Summer 1977
Gorleben shall live
People from many places meet at summer camp and discuss actions. The concept of nationwide action days is developed.
End of 1977
Gorleben shall live us too
It's about changing our entire way of life: Food co-ops, environmental groups, urban-rural projects ....
3 May to 4 June 1980
Free Republic Wendland
Opponents of nuclear power set up a village of huts on the site of the 1004 deep borehole. The Wenden-Passport is valid throughout the universe as long as its owner can still laugh.
1978-1982
Research project Technical change and qualification
In the end, it's clear: science is not for me.
May 1982
Workshop with R.Flatischler
A disturbing and fascinating experience that turns my understanding of rhythm "upside down".
Autumn 1982
Moving to the Wendland
On a 160-year-old long abandoned farm, it's all about the elementary: Felling trees, harvesting fruit, milking sheep ... A healing arrival on the ground of facts ...
1985
"Hart an der Grenze"
Sound performance as part of an art journey in the Wendland.
26 April 1986
Core meltdown in Chernobyll
The radioactive cloud hits all of Europe.
1987
"Da müssen wir durch"
Music performances as part of an art event in the Wendland.
1989
Memento Mori It won't be more than life. Performance for voice and percussion with Brita Kärner
1989 - 1992
Training in Rhythm Pedagogy and Rhythm Therapy with Reinhard Flatischler and Wolf Büntig at ZIST Penzberg
9 November 1989
By the way ...
The Wall is gone!
1989 - 1992
Workshop Series Zen Arts with Michael Vetter
1993
For the sake of love
Move to Bavaria
1994 -2013
Teacher for percussion at the Camerloher Music School Murnau
