Academic researcher, writer and translator. PhD in Philosophy from Humboldt University, Berlin. His work focus lies on the interface between aesthetics and practical philosophy. He has been active an an advisor and educator. He taught at the Technical University of Berlin and he was Lise Meitner Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund and Principal Investigator of the project Music as life-affirmation. The value of music in life-philosophy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He has also cooperated with the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Next to his academic work, he has published two books of prose, poetry, and translations of German classics.