Lives in Weimar with his longtime companion Anna Wittig.
Besides his acting career, he has been a successful singer since his
first stage program "The Best of Dreigroschenoper" in 1993.
Ironically, he had worked as shop-assistant at the Kaufhaus des Westens
(KaDeWe), a Berlin department store, before becoming a member of the
Cabaret des Westens (CaDeWe), a cabaret (1978).
Moved with his family from Paris, where his parents had ran a
delicatessen, to Berlin in 1971.