From 1959 to 1964 he was chief conductor of the DEFA Symphony Orchestra Potsdam-Babelsberg and from 1964 to 1967 of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.
In April 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a soldier and transferred to the Luftwaffe, where he first played in a music corps in Nordhausen and later an orchestra at the pilot school in Silesia founded.
[2] After End of the War, he studied conducting, composition, piano, viola and singing at the Sondershausen Conservatory from October 1, 1945.
[3][4] In the 1960s and 1970s he composed the music for several DEFA Indian films with Gojko Mitić in the lead role (Spur des Falken, White Wolves, Ulzana, Blood Brothers and The Scout).
From the 1970s to the 1990s he wrote new music for reconstructed silent films, among others: The Golem: How He Came into the World and The Last Man, the latter commissioned by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Society.