Trivia

After graduation, he played professional soccer (for Westphalia Herne) for three years.

His wife Cecilia Kunz gave birth to twins named Hugo and Gretchen (January 2003).

Son of a miner.

Studied at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich from 1984 to 1989.

Spent some time at the London Royal College of Art.