Born on 16 April 1974 in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony, German musician and author Thees
Uhlmann rose to fame as a founding member of 1990s and 2000s indie-pop staples
Tomte, who formed in Hamburg in the late 1980s and released their debut EP,
Blinkmuffel, in 1996. They scored a breakthrough album with "Hinter all diesen
Fenstern" (Behind All These Windows) in 2003 and experienced their first taste
of mainstream success a decade after forming thanks to 2006's Buchstaben über
der Stadt, before going on hiatus in 2008. Three years later, in the summer of
2011, Thees Uhlmann began carving o...