Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed of singing, acting or just being crazy on stage. At that time I was experimenting with my parents' old camera, fooling around at family celebrations or doing a playback show with my friends to songs by Toto or Police for the camera, with tennis rackets as imitation guitars, lamp stands as microphone stands and wooden spoons and washing powder boxes put on a show as a drum set fake. In the end I also played real instruments and took singing lessons and emulated my idols like Michael Jackson, Sting or Toto by improvising with singing and piano. And thought this is it! That's how I want to play! That awakens passion in me and just makes me happy!
But then came a day that I will never forget for the rest of my life. I had finally gathered all my courage and presented my own self-composed and self-written song in music class at school. It was an absolute letdown. My classmates looked at me like cars. It was horrible, I wanted to sink into the ground, wanted out of class with a music focus and drop everything musical.
But in the end, my mother, with her sometimes very direct manner, also helped me to continue. She said, "Boy, don't do your homework, practice the piano!" As absurd and at the same time amusing this saying was for me at first, I also recognized the true core behind it. It is usually not decisive what kind of result we subjectively achieve at a certain moment. It is much more important that you keep going! Keep going and don't be discouraged by the first setback along the way! That's why I continued and was accepted as the only man out of about 130 applicants in my academic year for a musical degree in Leipzig played and then had a wonderful career with a wide variety of musicals (more on this under "Vita").
My impression is that there are many talented people who could follow a similarly successful path to their own personal dream if they would only go their way long enough. But there are also a lot of injustices in the family and in society that you have to deal with first, especially if you don't have anyone to support you along the way.
Like probably everyone, I too had to struggle with some injustices in my life, which often moved me a lot. That's why I see it as my task to make our world a bit more humane and peaceful through tolerance and equality in every respect through my music. Peaceful coexistence without envy or hatred can only develop in a place where people feel treated equally.
But then came a day that I will never forget for the rest of my life. I had finally gathered all my courage and presented my own self-composed and self-written song in music class at school. It was an absolute letdown. My classmates looked at me like cars. It was horrible, I wanted to sink into the ground, wanted out of class with a music focus and drop everything musical.
But in the end, my mother, with her sometimes very direct manner, also helped me to continue. She said, "Boy, don't do your homework, practice the piano!" As absurd and at the same time amusing this saying was for me at first, I also recognized the true core behind it. It is usually not decisive what kind of result we subjectively achieve at a certain moment. It is much more important that you keep going! Keep going and don't be discouraged by the first setback along the way! That's why I continued and was accepted as the only man out of about 130 applicants in my academic year for a musical degree in Leipzig played and then had a wonderful career with a wide variety of musicals (more on this under "Vita").
My impression is that there are many talented people who could follow a similarly successful path to their own personal dream if they would only go their way long enough. But there are also a lot of injustices in the family and in society that you have to deal with first, especially if you don't have anyone to support you along the way.
Like probably everyone, I too had to struggle with some injustices in my life, which often moved me a lot. That's why I see it as my task to make our world a bit more humane and peaceful through tolerance and equality in every respect through my music. Peaceful coexistence without envy or hatred can only develop in a place where people feel treated equally.
