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12/20/2015 - 12:29
Leben in der Deutschen Bahn

On Saturday the Hamburger Abendblatt published my big report: Living in the Germany Railway. An Experiment with myself. Three days and nights I travelled through germany by train. 74 hours, 5266 kilometres, 20 trains, a bavarian choir, two smashed Wagons, a police operation, a tired Wolfgang Kubicki, a forgotten suitcase, a crying girl, a damaged smartphone, a patchwork mother from the ministry of family, and only one single train running late - all that and much more you can read here: http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article206840799/Der-ganz-normale-B...

12/11/2015 - 15:21
New Pieces

In time for Christmas two new pieces of mine arrived from the Printing Company: Canarie, 12 Variations on an Old Dutch Dance Tune, for Recorder Trio, a real concert piece, and the long planned Sextet Version of Celebration! Just have a look at it and listen. From Canarie there already exists a Live Recording!
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!

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!