Trivia

Considering himself a "depressive and burned-out author", he retired from writing in 2006.

Received Germany's Cross of Merit in 2005.

Former son-in-law of Maria Schell and Veit Relin.

Attended acting lessons in Munich and at the famous Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna.

Being a member of the German communist party DKP in the 1970s, his plays often portrayed people in a social misery. The premiere of his plays "Heimarbeit" and "Hartnäckig" were disrupted by neonazi activists (1971).