2003 by Caroline Link won the Academy Award for "Best Foreign Movie". (Score: Nicki Reiser, Additional Music: J.Schmidt-H.)

(Regie Alberto Venzago, Prod. Wim Wenders) had a good festival run in Toronto, Tokyo, Locarno, Hof, etc and open very good in Germany and Switzerland.

is hughly successfull as feature film and a TV-series. The DVD went quadruple platinum!

Untill 2007 composition of over a hundred scores including 3 films by Jo Baier, 8 by Konrad Sabrautzky, 11 by Olaf Kreinsen, 6 by Diethard Klante and 3 TV-series by Berhard Stephan. Scores for Xaver Schwarzenberger, Torsten Fischer, Peter Schulze-Rohr, Heidi Kranz, Bettina Woernle, Dorothea Neukirchen and Susanne Zanke. Also 3 mountain-film documentaries by Malte Roeper and many award winning commercials for Nico Karo and Alberto Venzago.

Lectures on Music for Documentries and Commercials at the HFF München. Masterclasses for Composers in Salzburg. Also guest-lecturerat the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg (Music for Documentries), the Popacademy Hannover (Scoring) uand the HFF Konrad Wolf in Potsdam (Filmmusicbusiness).

Board member of the Composers Club Germany and delegate to the Deutscher Musikrat, also Member of the GEMA-Works commission and the German Film Academy.

1996 the feature filmby Caroline Link won an Academy Award nomination for "Best Foreign Movie". (Score: Nicki Reiser, Additional and Onscreen-Music: J.Schmidt-H.)

Until 1994 composition of about 800 jingles und titelmusic ´s for the german 1st TV channel :

ZDF-Deutschland-Journal,, Plus-Minus, Bericht aus Bonn (Jingles), , , Babylon, ARD-Exclusiv, Einblick, Globus, ARD Heute Abend, West3 Aktuelle Stunde, ARD Presseclub (Theme) Die Goldene Eins, , Umschau and ARD Sportschau

1989-94 Bass player with Klaus Doldingers Band Passport. Also concerts and touring with Charlie Mariano, WDR Big Band, Brian Auger, Alphonse Mouzon, James "Blood" Ulmer, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Billy Cobham and Wolfgang Niedecken. 1995-99 concerts as a soloist with the SWR Symphonic Orchestra under Michael Giehlen at the Salzburger Festspielen, the Berlinale, the Edinburgh Festival and in Paris, Köln and New York (Carnegie Hall).

1984-89 studiomusician and producer in Cologne.

Untill 1981 studies at the Musikhochschule Köln, then touring and recordings with Manfred Schoof, Michael Sagmeister and Friedrich Gulda.

With Klaus Doldinger at the "Jazz in the City" Augsburg, October 2003