Even as a small child, I was fascinated by looking at the night sky and wanted to know everything about it. When I was in school, I received a simple telescope as a gift and finally could bring the moon closer with its crater landscapes and even see Saturn and Jupiter, albeit small and blurry.
Music is my second passion, and I have also made it my profession: I am a professional pianist and componist specializing in jazz. I perform concerts with various projects that have taken me to many countries around the world. I have appeared on radio and television, and my music can be heard on numerous CDs. I also teach piano at universities and music schools.
I didn't start photography until 1998 when I wanted to try out a new hobby, and I mainly focused on portrait photography. It wasn't until the end of 2020 that I attempted to photograph the moon through my Newtonian telescope and since then, I have been dedicated to astrophotography, capturing from my suburban Bortle 5 backyard in Hannover (northern Germany!
I still vividly remember hanging a large poster of the Horsehead Nebula in my room as a teenager in the 1980s and marveling at it. The fact that 35 years later I would be able to capture it myself from my backyard shows how far technology has advanced since then. Nevertheless, I still consider every astrophotograph I take as a little miracle!
Website
http://www.astrophoto-hannover.de/
Job
Musician (Jazz Pianist & Composer) and Jazz Piano Teacher
