Lives in Berlin with his girlfriend, a bookseller.
Was trained to be a baker.
After a road accident in 1969, he became addicted to heroine and was
sentenced to jail ten times in the following years. In the 1980s, he
was successfully given therapy.
After being a member of German rock band "Amon Düül II in the early
1970s, he released a solo single called "Irgendwann wird alles besser"
("Someday everything will be better") (1992).