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Born 1952 in Berlin
- Began playing guitar at age 14
- 1972 played in various bands, rock music
- 1973 - 76 studied classical and jazz guitar at the Berlin "Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler"
- 1977 started playing jazz, free jazz and improvised music
- 1977 first solo performance
- 1977 - 86 member of various jazz or improvising groups in former GDR, and teacher at Musikhochschule
- Played with the finest jazz players in East Germany, including Konrad Bauer
- Led his own quartett with Volker Schlott (as, ss), Günther Bartel (b), Peter Gröning (dr)
- Played duetts with John Tchicai (sax), Joëlle Leandre (b) and Rudolf Dasek (g)
- Performed with various dancers, including Arila Siegert
- Toured in almost every European country
- 1986 changed domicile to Nürnberg, 87 to Köln
- Several recording projects as a leader which have earned international acclaim
- Several featured articles in various international publications
- Projects as a soloist, with different european musicians and American bassist David Friesen
- Wrote a lot of compositions, some are available in books: "Guitar-guitar" and "Departure" with David Friesen
- 1993 Afrika tour with flutist Michael Heupel (Goethe-Institut)
- Since 1989 plays special guitars with 39 frets made by the great guitar maker from Holland Theo Scharpach (Achterste Aa 14, NL 5571 Bergeyk)
- He also gives workshops for improvisation and special guitar techniques
- Developed a unique system to use the guitar body as a percussion instrument
- Composed music for an animated film
- 1995 played with Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- Worked with Rolf and Joachim Kühn
- At the Bauhaus Dessau he did the music for several dance projekts with Arila Siegert, Iris Sputh and Thomas Hartmann
- Living in Berlin since 1998
- Since the early nineties he also works as a photographer; the photographs were used for his own and for other artists CD-covers
- His photographs were exhibited several times as Uwe THEO Kropinski
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