- 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.
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