Bonr in Lahr/Black Forest on 14 March

Grammar school, piano lessons (W. Siebler), juvenile compositions

Studied music in Freiburg (music theory with E. Doflein), attended the Kranichsteiner Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Varèse, Adorno, Leibowitz, Křenek, Scherchen, Boulez, Henze, Stockhausen)

Studied theology, philosophy ans musicology in Tübingen (Barth, Bultmann, Bloch)

Serial compositions: "Versuche" for various ensembles (Analysis, Stücke, Fragment, Compositio)

Parso in Kaiserslautern, marriage (with Camilla Riegger), 2 children (Andreas, Bettina)

Phonetic, spatially structured music: "Glossolalie" for speakers and instruments, "Das Urteil" Spatial music for ensemble

Visible, process-like music: "visible music" for conductor and one instrument, "reactions" for one instrument and audience, "Nostalgie" (for solo conductor), "Anschläge-Ausschläge" (trio), "Ki-No" Night music for projectors and listeners

Religious education teacher at the Wöhler School in Frankfurt on the Main

Organic music as direcr expression: "Maulwerke" for articulatory organs and reproduction devices

Second marriage (Iris Kaschnitz)

Religious education and music teacher in Munich, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neue Musik at the Oskar-von-Miller Gymnasium, Munich

Educational music for "amateurs": "Schulmusik" ("Blasmusik", "Gesums", "Kontrapunkt", "Harmonik", "Stuhlgewitter", "Zahlen für (mit) Münzen")

"Tradition" - "Re-Visionen"; retrospective views forward - previews backward: "Canones" ("In motu proprio", "Diapason") for ensembles, "B-Dur-Quintett", "Lieder ohne Worte" for voice and two instruments, "Bagatellen", "Auguri" for piano, "Inventionen" for violincello solo, "Zwischenfugen" for organ, "Sinfonie-Stücke" for orchestra, "MISSA" for soloists, two choirs, orchestra and organ; "Sinfonie X" for contralto voice, large orchestra and live electronics, "Revisionen" : "Bach-Contrapuncti", "Beethoven-Sinfonie", "Webern-Variationen", "Wagner-Idyll", "Schubert-Phantasie", "Janáček-Moment", "Mozart-Moment", "Schumann-Moment", "Mahler-Moment", "Verdi-Moment"

Professor of experimental music and musicology in Berlin

Spatial and mobile music: "Drei-Klang" for three ensembles, "Orchestra" for mobile musicians

Worked with the experimental theatre group "Die Maulwerker", extended journeys abroad (lectures, concerts): USA - Canada, Japan - Korea, Yugoslavia - Greece - Israel, Latin America

Psychoanalytical music ("emotional realism"): "Pan" for flute, "Marsyas" for shawm, "Circe" fur harp, "Thanatos-Eros" for orchestra, "Sisyphos" for two instruments, "Languido" for bass flute and live electronics, "Jo" for guitar, winds and percussion

"Körper-Sprache" for 3 to 9 performers (1980)

Experimental theatre for voices and gestures: "Laut-Gesten-Laute" ("Fantasien", "An-sätze", "Redeübungen", "Weisen", "Gedankengänge"), "Zeichen-Sprache" (6 Poems for 4 heads, 2 trunks, 8 legs, 1 body, 7 arms, 3 fingers)

Ecological music: "Jowaegerli" (Scenic cantata based on Alemannic texts by J.P. Hebel), "Raumklang X" for orchestra

Further works of spatially structured music: "Monotonien" for piano and live electronics, "Das Urteil" (after Kafka), realisation of the project of 1959, "Gehörgänge-Anvironment" (Project 1972), "raum-zeit y " for musicians on revolving stools (Project 1958-60), "St. Jago" (Scenic cantata after/on Heinrich von Kleist)

Lahr Cultural Prize, member of the Berlin Academie of the Arts, member of the Free Academy of the Arts, Leipzig

Multi-spatil music:
"Museumsstücke I ", "MoMA, Museumsstücke II " for flexibel voices and instruments, "Numbers" for solo vocalist, "Schau-Stücke" Body etudes for voice and gestures, "Worte-Töne-Schritte" Musical story for voice, synthesizer and percussion

Vocal music:
"Motetus I " for two choirs, "Lamento di Guerra" for voice and organ, "Amazones" for five female voices, "Kaschnitz-Gedichte" for voice and piano, "Quintessenz´" for vocal quartet with piano, "Mit diesen Händen" for voice and violoncello

Instrumental music:
"Toccata mit Fugen" for large organ and percussion, "Lamah" for string trio with voice

Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

Further journeys: Latin America (Montevideo, Bueños Aires, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro), Madrid, Switzerland, Rome

World première of the opera "Majakowskis Tod-Totentanz" in Leipzig, first performance (partly world première) of the oratorio "Ekstasis" for soprano, percussion solo, five choirs ans orchestra in Cologne

Heart attack, bypass surgery

Further sacred music:
"Motetus II ", "Magnificat" for schola, chor and percussion, "Missa brevis", "Psalm 139" for voice and percussion, "Aschermittwochsmusik" for schola, choir, organ and percussion, "David-Project"

European Church Music Prize of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd

Further experimental theatre:
"Y2K" (at 1.1.2000) for voices, "Harley-Davidson" for 9 motorcycles and trumpet, "N.N." for flexible voices and instruments, "Flipper" for pinball machines, voices, performers, instruments and tape, "Fontanta-Mix-Musik" for 2 performers, 2 instruments and tape, "Zimzum-Musik" Project for string trio, voice, synthesizer and projection

Further chamber music:
"Verschattungen" for bass clarinet, viola and tape, "Anfänge..." fur guitar (saxophone, percussion ad lib.), "Bachmann-Gedichte" for voice, saxophone and percussion

"Lebensblätter" (Signatur 33) Art book on life and work

World première of "Ekstasis" at Musica Viva in Munich