Alexander Schulz
*24.9.1966

1989-1993: Applied Cultural Studies, Lüneburg
1985-1997: Bookings for cultural centres and music festivals in Hamburg
1987-1992: Several jobs, e.g. assistant director at Thalia Theater, Hamburg
1992: Foundation Inferno Music Publishing/Editions at BMG UFA, managing director
1993: Foundation Jam Records, managing director
1998: Foundation Inferno Events GmbH & Co. KG for corporate events (Unilever,
Lufthansa, and others) und public events (Hamburger Theaternacht, Nacht des
Wissens, Reeperbahn Campus, and others), managing director of currently 12 employees
2006: Foundation Reeperbahn Festival GbR (Shareholders: Karsten Jahnke
Konzertdirektion GmbH und Inferno Events GmbH & Co. KG), managing director of currently 10 employees

Dahmen has studied classical percussion at the Musikhochschule Rheinland in Cologne and Aachen. After his studies, he was Dahmen freelance musician in Aachen (Rufus Zuphall) and was part of a jazz-rock group with Theo Jörgensmann, Hendrik Schaper and Micki Meuser in Cologne and in Hamburg as of 1980. During this time, there were numerous recordings and concert tours Publications (Kraan, Lake, Eberhard Schoener feat. Sting, Nervous Germans, Gianna Nannini, Nina Hagen, Jack Bruce, Gary Brooker, kangaroo, Sarah Brightman).

From 1983 to 2003 Dahmen was a lecturer in popular music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He was also Head of Yamaha Music Station in 1988 and from 1994-2003 Speaker of the pop course, a contact course for Popular Music University.

Dahmen 2003 became artistic director, managing director and professor of the Popakademie in Baden-Wuerttemberg in Mannheim and Vice President of the German Music Council.