Life before Oomph!
school, leaving-examination, civilian service, study and a lot of party! the way to music: On diverse family parties in the seventies, I was "forced" to bellow up and down all imaginable elvis-songs with my father (guitarist, singer). It was a horrid English...
The way together
In 1989 we met on a local indie-festival in Wolfsburg. At that time, I bawled in a new wave-punk band together with Crap (who was exclusively at the keys). Flux was active in a new-romantic/avantguarde band working with diverse controls, keys and strings.
Away from the band`s everyday life
relaxing, studying psychology, reading, going in for sports, going to the pictures, cooking
Most terrific band-experience
1991: first record deal 1993: for the first time in New York, immediately in the legendary "limelight" 1993: duet with Nina Hagen 2000: eurokennes festival in france with eurythmicy, muse, nine inch nails, alanis morissette, slayer...
Worst band-experience
the mastering for the UNREIN-album
Models
I do not have any models. Of course there are many people I admire for their courage to stand up for their beliefs (steven biko, che guevara, mahatma gandhi, the historical jesus, mutter theresa, dietrich bonhoeffer and the "kreisauer kreis", martin luther king, the dalai lama, the brothers and sisters scholl and "die weisse rose", etc.).
Politics
As much power as necessary for people - as little power as possible for the individual.
Influences
the cure, killing joke, einstürzende neubauten, AC/DC, depeche mode, extrabreit, kraftwerk, the beatles, elvis presley, ABBA, karl orff´s works in the primary school
Records for eternity
All the classical records of Beethoven, Mozart and Ravel. Beatles (the white album) - nin (the downward spiral) - AC/DC (dirty deeds... ) - DAF (gold und liebe and DAF ) - ABBA (gold) - all the records of elvis presley - frank sinatra´s greatest hits - björk (post) - incubus (make yourself )- faith no more (king for a day... ) - metallica (the black album)
Books for eternity
anne sexton: liebesgedichte/verwandlungen - patrick süsskind: das parfum - jostein gaarder: sofies welt - marlo morgan: traumfänger - gitta sereny: schreie die keiner hört - grimms märchen - all the writings of marx and engels- all the writings of sartre and nietzsche - all the writings of brecht, benn, trakl and jandl - the bible - the koran - the columns of buddhism - Actually I like every religious book. In my opinion it is very spectacular if a book is relevant for several thousand years.
Films for eternity
Citizen Kane - Der Pate 1&2 - Schrei in der Stille - dancer in the dark - Der Dieb von Bagdad (1940) - Die 3 Musketiere (1948) - Nosferatu with murnau - Nosferatu with kinski - Ist das Leben nicht schön? with James Steward - Ed Wood with Johnny Depp - natural born killers - hitchcock`s Psycho - Was geschah wirklich mit baby Jane? with Bette Davis - Schindlers Liste - Indiana Jones-trilogie - Alien-trilogie - american history x - mission - Wie ein wilder Stier - Der alte Mann und das Meer with Spencer Tracy - dead men walking - all of stan + ollie - the pipi langstrumpf-films - das Piano - Life of Brian
Personal strong points within the band
the readiness to give always 100% if it is urgent
Personal weak sides within the band
impatience
The best advice one can give
... should be for nothing!
Most beautiful literature-quotation
Your care was my care, my care was your care. If you had not any joy, I also could not have any. (Berthold Brecht)
Most spectacular literature-quotation
piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiep!!!! (an dieser Stelle sehe ich mich außerstande, Brecht zu übersetzen)
Music is...
my life`s elixir. Of course music is not the world, but without music things would not be worth anything.
Source: http://www.germanmetal.com/bands/oomph/biographies/dero/dero.html
