Composer, arranger, guitarist, born in Polsnitz (Kreis Waldenburg, Lower Silesia, today: Wa?brych/Poland). He began to learn violin 1943 and guitar 1948 with Erich Bürger (1902-1994) in Berlin. At the Municipal Conservatory (Stern‘sches Conservatory) in Berlin he studied 1955-1960 guitar with Erich Bürger, piano and composition with Friedrich Metzler (1910-1979). Since 1962 he worked as freelance composer in Berlin. (Rainer Stelle)