I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s as an average country kid in a village near Augsburg. I went to a village school, then to a rural grammar school, did community service and was briefly a car mechanic. I then studied in Augsburg to become a teacher. In 1999, I became a teacher in Neu-Ulm. I then went to Argentina to teach for a few years. I lived in Buenos Aires. I got married there and have been back in Germany since 2011. In 2013, I moved to Munich, where I still teach. I completed my doctorate in 2021 with a thesis on tango. Although I wrote poems in earlier years, most of them were written in the last few years, mostly involuntarily.