He hosts the video-podcast series Belles Lettres on German linguistics.
Upon graduating from school and completing an apprenticeship, Scholten worked in Scandinavia for several years as a typographer.
After this, Scholten studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München, with majors in Egyptology and historical linguistics, specialising in the language and literature of ancient Egypt.
In 2007, Scholten began writing crime novels under the title Kommissar Cederström.
Scholten founded the video-podcast series Belles Lettres in 2010[1] which focuses on linguistics and stylistics.