From 1980 to 1982, he was a music teacher at the Freiherr-vom-Stein Oberschule in Berlin-Spandau and from 1982 to 1986 a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig (H. Segler).
Filmmusik, Videoclip, Fernsehen" (Handbuch der Musik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, vol.
In addition to composition techniques and film aesthetics, cultural and social processes of production, reception and reflection of multi-media music, including the traditional methods of musicology, are inevitably moving into the centre of research with regard to music and multimedia.
For the volume "Musikpsychologie" of the five-volume Handbuch der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft, vol.3 edited by Helga de la Motte-Haber and Günther Rötter, he wrote the article "Musikpräferenzen.
[2] He worked on the state of research on educational music by Hindemith, de la Motte, Orff, Schnebel among others in the context of utility music and placed these compositions in the theoretical framework of the school ("Pädagogische Musik als ästhetisches Konzept" Augsburg 2002).