From 1981 to 1997, he worked in Tübingen (in the bookstore Gastl) and in 1997/98 in Berlin as a scientific assortment manager (for philosophy, philology and social sciences), bookseller examination in 1985.
He also published on the composers, musicologists, philosophers and writers Jean-Philippe Rameau, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Anton Reicha, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gertrud Kolmar, Karl Marx, Eduard Grell, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Theodor Hagen, Philipp Spitta, Hermann Kretzschmar, and Leo Blech.
He works as an indexer of older German-language music journals for the Répertoire internationale de la presse musicale (RIPM),[3] Baltimore/USA, since 2012.
He advocates a unified, inherently multidimensional musicology and a conception of music history beyond epochal divisions and normative aesthetics.
About Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: About Felix Mendelssohn: About Gustav Jacobsthal: About music theory and the history of science: About individual musicians: About Cultural Criticism: