Attended the Max Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna, Austria.
Plays the guitar and the flute
Currently resides in Bochum (North Rhine-Westphalia) where he is mainly
doing theatre work at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (August 2005).
Great-grandson of the distinguished Austrian composer Franz Schmidt (1874-1939), famous in Vienna for his four symphonies and his oratorio The Book with Seven Seals, based on the Book of Revelation.