Short biography
1943
born in Borken, district of Kassel
1944
Suffered from meningitis Lost hearing
1951-1959
School for the deaf in Homberg/Efze
1959-1960
School for the deaf in Friedberg/Hesse
1960-1963
Apprenticeship as a technical draughtsman at the company Druckgußwerk RHEIN-MAIN in Frankfurt am Main
1963-1967
Company Apparatebau Klinger KG in Wiesbaden
1967-1970
Company Stahlbau Hammer GmbH in Mainz-Kostheim
since 1968
Married to Margit Fricke, née Schneider
1970-1999
Global company HOECHST AG in Frankfurt
1999
into early retirement
as of 2000
Freelance artistic activity