He has been lecturer of musicology at the University of Marburg, and journalist for Opernwelt, the leading trade journal for opera.
He completed studies of musicology at the Free University of Berlin with a work about Gustav Mahler's Lieder.
[2] He has published in various musicological journals, and has been active as a music critic, among others for the Berliner Zeitung[1] and the Neue Musikzeitung.
[1] Lücker lives and works as a composer, musicologist and freelance journalist for rbb Kultur [de] in Berlin.
[3] In 2018, Lücker's career at the Konzerthaus Berlin was ended after a controversy surrounding a parody shred video.