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After the media underestimated his talent and considered him a comedian making nonsensical and simple jokes, his performances as tragic looser Dittsche on _"Dittsche" (2004)_ and Nazi minister Goebbels on Stauffenberg (2004) impressed the critics.

Was one half of comedy music duo "Die Doofen" with Wigald Boning.

Occasionally tours with a stage program also starring Bastian Pastewka.

Drummer of the German country band "Texas Lightning" since 2005. Their single "No No Never", which made them Germany's entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, reached #1 of the German charts in May 2006.

His longtime companion Annabel gave birth to their son Jonathan in 2001.

Served an apprenticeship as theater painter at the Hamburg State Opera from 1975 to 1978.

His father worked as journalist, his mother was a painter.