PeterLicht is an author, playwright, musician, and singer. His song “Vom Sonnendeck” was an underground summer hit in 2001. Two years before the financial crisis, in 2006, he declared the end of capitalism with his work “Lieder/Buch vom Ende des Kapitalismus.” In 2008, he released „Die Geschichte meiner Einschätzung am Anfang des 3. Jahrtausends”, for which he received the Audience Award and the 3sat Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. In 2014, his book and the eponymous album "Lob der Realität" were published. For a time, he worked as a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2021, he released his eighth studio album, “Beton und Ibuprofen”, and his debut novel “Ja okay, aber.” As a playwright, PeterLicht’s works are regularly performed on prominent German-speaking theatre stages.