A member of both the Bavarian State Opera and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for half a century, he focused on roles of the buffo genre and operetta.

He made recordings, appeared on radio and television, performed internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and worked also as an operetta director and a private voice teacher.

He turned to the buffo repertoire, such as Baron Lummer in Intermezzo by Richard Strauss, Benoît in Puccini's La bohème, Dr.

Among his opera and operetta partners were Christine Görner, Margit Schramm, Erika Köth, Sári Barabás, Dorothea Chryst, Liselotte Ebnet, Friedauer and John van Kesteren.

He appeared in Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen with Ingeborg Hallstein, staged in 1960 at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz by Arno Assmann.