Maximilian Hecker is a German musician from Berlin, known for ethereal pop or dream pop music, similar to Radiohead, Sigur R�s, Tom Baxter and Nick Drake. He himself describes his songs as �melancholy pop hymns�. Hecker grew up in Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia. He learned to play the piano, the drums and the guitar and did his A levels at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in B�nde in 1997. Having finished his alternative civilian service at Klinikum Schwabing in Munich, he started training in nursing practice at the hospital Charit� in Berlin in 1999. 

July 26th, 1977 in Heidenheim an der Brenz (Age 47)