... is a German philosophical writer, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, dramatist, theater & film director, cinematographer, award winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer and classical music conductor running several recording studios and ateliers around the world with notable stations and stopovers of work in Paris, London, Napoli, Berlin, Hamburg, New York, Los Angeles and many other places in the world.

He is the son of the German theater and film actress Karin Ugowski and the recently died theater and film director and actor Helmut Straßburger (stage lead in the Berlin Volksbühne and other theaters) .

His primary field of work has always been philosophical driven novel & stage/screen play writing since his very early years, even if some music connoisseurs might associate him superficially rather with international music successes. Followed by staging and directing own written motion-pictures and stage-plays. Not infrequently novel adaptations based on own works. Mentoring other artists, independent and relevant theater and film projects worldwide is another contribution he delivers since 2 decades to support stage and film art against a mainstream entertainment dominance which is missing the task of being an inspiration for society.

Known for his critical stance against careerism and against the allover omnipresent concept of success and fame in western societies and his - accompanying this - rejection of pubic figures and personality cult in the cultural sector, he refused and boycotted multiple success oriented collaborations and contributions over the decades. And many of his art works remained unsigned, undelivered, unknown or have been released under not assignable pseudonyms. – “… An artist isn’t automatically to be considered ‘good’, if established as well-known figure. And should not be turned into something public relevant if mainly driven by showmanship, image cultivation, self-actualization or personal fulfillment and even more not at all to be awaiting any applause. But rather about to inspire civilization, to advance and support mankind in any positive way. At best, or at least less corruptible, if the work remains nonassignable to any artist’s name.” (quote from an interview of 1996)

(Even our efforts as an artist's agency to publish this CV-related information here were met with great reluctance on his part. ~ un poco artist office)

Multiple invitations, open discussions and open offers for possible responsibilities and assignments in context of chairs in universities or in context and frameworks of artistic director- or leadership (which would put him in his father's footsteps) like for example in theaters or TV channel culture or art divisions abroad, he repeatedly refused so far on the grounds that, » as long as leading work in the cultural sector remains seen primarily as the megaphone to policy of cultural cutbacks and nepotism, his status as ‘efant terrible’ with unconventional ideas to save art and culture divisions, which means to save humanity, can do little to nothing. For him, being solution-oriented would not mean sacrificing people, but rather finding real solutions for and with people. (He is not surprised that the music industry is destroying itself. It was never about people or high art.) And since he is not career-oriented, he sees no chance of coming to terms with himself about, for example, laying off hundreds of people just to supposedly or allegedly save a division and be able to hold a position. Which would rather be tantamount to a massacre than a rescue of any cultural sector. Working in culture and art sectors would only be possible with committed, courageous people who do not have to fear losing their jobs. It is a calling, not a profession.«

His first written stage play has been translated in French and premiered and first aired in the suburban areas of Paris in the late 1980's as an independent social critical street production drama when he was just 15 years old. His work as a theater and film director and cinematographer can be assigned to a generation of independent film d'auteur and theater d'auteur deliberately ignoring the trend towards mass entertainment production protesting against it by creating new genres of theater and film art on a high level of artistic sophistication.

Resulting from an early certification of "perfect pitch" (absolute hearing) in the age of 3/4 years and a self driven classical music education in a school program for highly gifted, he is not only a violinist, pianist and multi-instrumentalist but award-winning composer, music director and orchestra conductor with studios running in several countries.  He always considered this field of artistic expression rather as an additional layer of "color" to his primary work in text and stagings. 

His works as a composer and music producer from Classical to Jazz music and crossover all other genres has not only found its way into records worldwide and his own theater and film projects. His music label and studio REQQORD music (formerly Slo'Jam) had several successful music projects all over the world and his compositions and productions have contributed to international and awarded Hollywood motion pictures. He even do not reject to conduct his own philharmonic orchestra compositions for the classical orchestra studio rehearsals and recordings if time allows him to do so.