“How come I build tonearms and turntables? Well, this question can be easily answered based on my professional values, which, coupled with my passion for analogue listening pleasure, inevitably lead to today's result.

So let's start with my childhood on our familiy farm. There, together with my father, I always had to find technical solutions when, for example, a harvesting machine went on strike. Well, as far as the topic of "finding technical solutions" is concerned, I have cultivated this in the course of my professional life and have been able to bring it to a high level of development.

But back to my youth. My values started in the technical branch of junior high school. After graduating, I learned the trade of technical draftsman/today product designer. There I learned how to create standardized technical drawings. After the apprenticeship, I continue my school education at the technical college. I graduated from high school and studied mechanical engineering at Coburg University of applied sciences and arts.

During my studies, I was shaped by the innovation strategy WOIS by Prof. Dr. Linde, who accompanied me until I did my diploma thesis. Also Prof. Dr. Linde himself and his passion for a strategic approach and the handling and development of ideas into a viable product are still groundbreaking for me to this day.

After graduating, I worked as a engineer designer in the field of extrusion technology. In later professional life I worked as a design manager for an office technology manufacturer - which gave me insights into the industrial production of articles that are manufactured in large quantities. For more than two decades now I have been working as a design engineer for the Waldrich Coburg machine tool factory, which manufactures very large machines for machining equally large precision components. > This link leads to a video where you can see one of my professional projects at Waldrich Coburg. I was involved in the development of this machine.

With such precision machining of a workpiece in the micrometer range, the same physical effects are decisive for quality as with the playing of a record. The requirements in precision mechanical engineering, which I am confronted with as a designer engineer in my everyday work, are identical to those in the construction of analog technology such as turntables and tonearms. So my professional values are ideal not only to develop turntables and tonearms, but to be able to further develop them.

So it happened one day that I came into possession of a turntable that was missing the tonearm. After extensive study of the subject, I was spurred on to construct one. After the work was successful, looked good and sounded great, the next step followed: I constructed another tonearm, which can also be placed on an existing mass drive. It's just fun to develop things like that. Designing is my total passion!

My wife Alexandra finally made the suggestion to found a company out of it. As a freelance interior designer, product- and graphic designer, she wanted to create something together. Working with her makes it twice as fun to develop new products. Not only her design expertise is important to me, she, like me, has in her studies with Prof. Dr. Linde worked together and that's why we speak the same language, so to speak, when it comes to brainstorming.

So the idea of founding the Ars Machinae brand was born from all the activities. The name means something like "The art that comes out of the machine" or "The art of creating a machine".

We hope to be able to bring joy to many people with our products.”