Born in Esslingen am Neckar in 1970. Active for over 30 years as a cartoonist, copywriter, colourist and as a publisher with his publishing house Gringo Comics. Publications as a cartoonist in MAD and Zack, among others, complete comics of his own: "Fack, die Henne", "Ferdinand und Edgar" and "Kurt". "Kurt" appears weekly as a comic strip online in the Gringo Logbook. As a colourist, he has coloured comics by Aragones, Don Martin, Prohias, Al Jasse and Duck Edwing, among others. Plus countless albums.