maniac&me was active in Darmstadt and the Rhein-Main area/ Germany from 1993. As a vinyl-only DJ, he was mainly influenced by local DJs as Sven Väth, Roman Flügel and Ata. 2017 he moved to Berlin/ Germany and developed his interests in minimal techno, as played by Ricardo Villalobos, Herck or Dubfound. maniac&me is also part of Nachtflug Widerstand (a DJ team with Frankfurt based artist Kire) and Gns & Mnc (with the Berlin based DJ Gns.)