News

12/01/2015 - 09:05
Zimtschnecken-Premiere

I wish to congratulate the fabulous Zimtschnecken Sörin Bergmann, Anne Weber and Vicky Fleer to their fantastic Premiere in Winterhuder Fährhaus on the 30th of November! For all that missed it:
The three sweet girls play it again on the same stage on the 22th of February. Hope to see you there! The fact that Volker Lechtenbrink spoke a text from me (the opening), I see as a highlight of my life!!!
By the way, I just finished my first theater play. Now first my friends first will read it ... and for the first time, the theater rights of a book of mine are sold. Premiere in autumn 2017!!!

11/30/2015 - 08:36
Double Concert

Really Proud: Today LaLeLu sings Christmas with LaLeLu in Schmidts Tivoli, probably the most successful programme I ever wrote (now running in that effizient year!), and in the Winterhuder Fährhaus the Zimtschnecken have their completely sold out World Premiere, and I also contributed some ideas and texts. I am extremely excited and wish to say Toi Toi Toi to Vicky, Anne and Sörin!

11/20/2015 - 10:11
Short List

Good News: "Ich hab dich rein optisch nicht verstanden" made it on the shortlist for the best book 2015 of the Lovely-Books-Price! And the best of all: You decide! Till the 24th of November you can vote for my book … here: http://www.lovelybooks.de/leserpreis/2015/abstimmungen/bester-buchtitel/...
I count on you!

10/29/2015 - 10:48
The new Cover!

My publishing house Ullstein just finished the cover for my latest (eleventh!) book The Thin Years are over: A sad fat fish, captured in a tiny aquarium, unable to move or swim, illustrating perfectly, who we men in the Midlife Crisis often feel: Squeezed, constrained, hopeless and separated from real life by a thick layer of glass… It will be published next spring!

10/29/2015 - 10:40
Two Premieres in three days!

Two Premieres in three days: On the 29th of October The DISTEL performed his 138th programme called "Deutschland für alle", including my Pizza Battle: Michael Nitzel, Sebastian Wirnitzer and Dagmar Jaeger will compete in a rap-contest who makes up the coolest Pizza. And on Saturday, the 31st of October, the fabulous eight-men-a-cappella-group Betont Männlich celebrated their 10th birthday in the Tollhaus in Karlsruhe, performing among others my songs Schizophren, Deutschstunde and the 300-Jahre-Karlsruhe-Birthday-Song City of Dreams. And on the 30th of November will be the first performance of the first programme of the Three-Ladys-Sing-and-Dance-Group DIE ZIMTSCHNECKEN in the Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg, for which I wrote the Conference. I am already looking forward to it!

10/29/2015 - 10:18
Singer Pur

Just arrived: The Singer Pur Adventskalender - as CD and as Music Sheet! Including my arrangement of Fröhliche Weihnacht überall.
I just finished my second african Recorder Quartet this year and am already composing the third one. By the way: One year ahead, on the 22th and 23th of October 2016 I will give my first african Recorder Workshop. And hope to get to know you all personally there!

09/21/2015 - 10:10
The Summer of Anthologies

Summer is over, and I would like to mention that I was part of three Anthologies: In "Urlaub mir der buckligen Verwandtschaft" (edited by Dietmar Bittrich) I tell in the story "Der Kreditkartenbetrug", what happens, if you make a vacation with your brother and his horror-children. In the "Hängemattenbuch der Liebe" I answer the question, what why you never should ask your partner, if he still loves you, nor a couple, where they got to know each other. And in the WR-Anthology "Dachkammerflimmern" I show a Comedian in his desperate attempt to find a new artists name. Have fun reading!

09/21/2015 - 10:00
Ajo Oloyin in Allensbach

On the coming Saturday (26.9.) at 5pm the Youth Recorder Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg under the conduct of Bettina Haugg-Scheu will perform my Ajo Oloyin in a concert in the Gnadenkirche Allensbach. I will use the opportunity to visit the beautiful Bodensee area and I will attend the concert. I am looking forward to it!

09/07/2015 - 08:51
20 Years of LaLeLu!

What a night! Laeiszhalle sold out, two and a half hours of singing, two times Standing Ovations, and for the very first time Sonja, Sanna, Tobi, Jan, Frank and me sing together on stage. Simply wonderful. Thanks for the 20 years, thanks for the great concert!

08/10/2015 - 08:04
Workshop

I wish to thank Irmhild Beutler and Sylvia Rosien and the 46 participants of their Recorder Workshop in Ratzeburg for the concentrated and wonderful work on Ajo Oloyin - and the permission to make a recording. Soon the recording will be published on this site!

The Konstanz Recorder Orchestra will play Ajo Oloyin on the 12th of September in Aalen, and on the 26th of September in Allensbach!