[1] He attended a school in Colditz, Saxony, where he founded an instrumental group and directed the choir.
[3] In 1960, he became an assistant and aspirant (with Wilhelm Weismann[1]), in 1964 a teacher and in 1968 a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig.
[3] From 1973 to 1976, he held the post of director of the Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [de].
[2] Following a request by the School's Honorary Commission, he was dismissed in November 1989 by the Senate of Berlin for Science and Research.
[2] Since the beginning of the 1960s, he has been composing orchestral, chamber and vocal music (cantatas, choral works, songs, arrangements).