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I got my first guitar in 1962. Michael and I formed the Fire Drake Skiffle Group. We had a lot of fun. (Photo: A.Gehring)
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In 1962, on the ferry to Dover, I played and sung with all the other students on their way to language camps.  » (Photo: NN)
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In December 1964 I played with The Tories all weekends in music clubs and youth centers - on this pic we played at Buschkrug-Casino, one of our favorite locations. (Photo: NN)
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In winter 1972/1973, I moved to  » fabrikneu, where music, filmmaking, arts and fashion worked together. (Polaroid: A.Riemer)
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In the 2rd year in fabrikneu, in 1974, I started to be a grammar school teacher. (Polaroid: A.Riemer)
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In summer 1974, ANGELIK RIEMER and I married. We had a huge wedding party in fabrikneu. (selfie)
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In November 1975 Angelik gave birth to our son CHRISTIAN. In 1976 we had moved into our new flat in Ansbacher Straße. (Polaroid: A.Riemer)
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In 1976, I bought a sound recording Super8 camera, a BEAULIEU 5008s, to shoot Claudia's  » SHAKE YOUR HIPS fashion show. (Polaroid: A.Riemer)
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In 1978, I re-started my music activities: I bought a white solid body FENDER Telecaster guitar and a MUSICMAN 212-65 amp. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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In 1986, I composed my first DIGITAL piece,  » BORN IN 1986, on a Philips MSX-2 game computer. (Photo: A.RIEMER)
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In 1990 I tried a MIDI guitar controller, a Yamaha G10 - but is was too slow for guitar picking. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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In 1997,  » SMALL ISLAND NEWS was my first DDD album using ROLAND VS-880. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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Retiring from teaching and travelling Japan again in 2007. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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2008 saw me using my first digital video cam, a SONY PC-120 miniDV cam. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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In 2008, I did a lot of digitizing of my Super8 films and older analogue video stuff in my new Studio Leipzi after we had moved to Leipziger Straße in 2004. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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In 2008, I bought a 1965er Hopf Allround, my guitar with THE TORIES! Hear it in  » STRASSENFRÜHLING of 2011. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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During the shootings for my  » Fo(u)r Arts Tokyo projects in 2009, FUMIO TACHIBANA took a portray of me with his huge plate camera. (Photo: F.Tachibana)
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2009 ended with showing  » SMOKN CHIMNZ (Fo(u)screens #7) in the group exhibition *CHRISMAS PALM* at FREIES MUSEUM BERLIN. (Photo: W.Müller)
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2010 saw me shooting  » TOKYO TOWER in Tokyo. On this photo I looked at it from the Akasaka side. (Photo: A.Riemer)
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In 2014 I met Toru in Kanda and we had a wonderful chat-eat-drink-afternoon. He cought me fiddling with my SX70. But I  » caught him too ! (Photo: T.Takahashi)
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Henriette and I travelled to Barcelona in 2016. I prepared 2 GoPros in a special body for 3D filming . (Photo: RoBo)
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Since 2016, I more and more used my iPhones to take photo and films. (selfie)
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After Angelik's death in January 2014, I found new warm love: HENRIETTE. We married in November 2017. (Photo: G.John)
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In 2018 Henriette and I did a 3-piece video film documentation on Japan. Invited to a calligraphy course, , we came very close to FUJISAN. (Photo: RoBo)


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