| Influences | Music:
Marc Bolan, David Bowie,  Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter, Mott The Hoople, Roxy Music, T. Rex, Electric Mayhem, The Shadows, Slade, Suzi Quatro, Sweet,  Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Sam The Sham & the Pharaos, Spencer Davis Group, The Byrds, The Move, Idle Race, Electric Light Orchestra, Queen, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls,  Bob Dylan, The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles, Beach Boys, The Doors, Jim Morrison & Ray Manzarek, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Nazareth, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Golden Earring, Scorpions, UFO, Heart, AC/DC (with Bon Scott), Thin Lizzy,  Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Robert Johnson, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Eddie Cochran, The Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The Rattles, The Equals, Hot Chocolate, Focus, Manfred Mann, MME, Dave Edmunds, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, The Jam, The Clash,  The Stranglers, The Damned, The Police, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Dire Straits, Carolyne Mas, The Specials, Stray Cats, The Fleshtones, The Cramps,  Chris Isaak, Fleetwood Mac & Peter Green, Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Lowell George, Gary Moore, George Thorogood, Santana, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Patti Smith, Van Morrison, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Can, BAP, Westernhagen, Die Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte, Vasco Rossi, Litfiba, Mitch Ryder, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Bee Gees, Neil Diamond, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Eagles, Little Feat, Robert Palmer, UB40, Mink de Ville, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Pogues, Tito & Tarantula, The Cure, Guns 'N Roses, The Alarm, U2, Suede, Ash, 4 Non Blondes, Wallflowers, Travis, Shivaree, No Doubt, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, White Stripes, Placebo, The Fratellis, Mika, Beethoven, Schubert, Brecht/Weill, Guy Stevens, Tony Visconti
Movies:
Dr. Strangelove, Zardoz,
The Time Machine,  Ben Hur, Once Upon a Time in the West, Lawrence of Arabia, Barry Lyndon, The Wind and the Lion, Barbarella,
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Quadrophenia, Blues Brothers, The Doors, Wild at Heart, Back to the Future, 2001, The Fifth Element, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Name of the Rose, Schtonk!, The Untouchables, Braveheart, Lubitsch, Fellini, Pasolini, Kubrick, Kieslowski, Kusturica, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Jack Arnold B-movies
Television:
Raumpatrouille Orion, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, The Muppets Show, Rome, Desperate Housewives
Games:
Chess, Skat, Monopoly, Risiko, Diplomacy, Trivial Pursuit, Kreml, Sim City, Pirates, 1602, Civilization II, Crusader Kings, Rome Total War, Orion, Birth of the Federation
Books:
Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Polybios, Will and Ariel Durant, Barbara Tuchmann, Casanova, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, R.L. Stevenson, Rider Haggard, K. May, C.S. Forrester, H.G. Wells, E.A. Poe, J. Conrad, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jules Verne, H. de Balzac, A. Dumas, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, A. de Saint-Exupéry, Charles Bukowski, M. Kundera, F. Nietzsche, George Orwell
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