[1] He was a member of the Roman Catholic fraternity Katholischer Studentenverein Arminia Bonn.
From 1968 onwards he worked as a director in Hamburg, before moving back to Munich in 1977 to become the General Intendant of the Bayerische Staatsoper.
[2] His productions were seen in all the major international houses: Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival.
In the 1980s and 1990s he interviewed a great many famous opera singers on German television, including Hans Hotter, Carlo Bergonzi, Otto Edelmann, Anja Silja, Astrid Varnay, Ingeborg Hallstein, Gundula Janowitz, Karl Ridderbusch, Birgit Nilsson, Irmgard Seefried, Martha Mödl, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hopf, Hans Sotin, Franz Crass and Josef Greindl.
He was one of the founder members of a society of the revolutionary thoughts on theaters and individual thinking and this was reflected in his works.