German guitarist, keyboard player, songwriter, composer, singer and an actor, born November 30, 1952, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In 1965, he co-founded the Beat band "The Tigers", which eventually changed its name to "The Sentries". In 1967, parts of the band merged with a band "The Ugly Things". This new band was named "Agitation" and Lüül became one of the guitarists of this band. In 1969, the band was renamed to Agitation Free, as there was a second band with the name "Agitation" in Berlin.
After the split of Agitation Free in 1974, he stayed in Paris, was active as street musician and joined Ash Ra Tempel and recorded several albums with them. Ulbrich got known with Nico (3) and became her lover and musician. He supported her tours as live musician. Also, both were touring in the USA and had a concert with John Cale at the legendary CBGB.
She became -after their relationship split in 1979- musical partner on his first solo recordings under the moniker artist. The mentioned solo career started in the early 1980's, his solo debut album was released in 1981. He also worked for many years in the theatre group "Reineke Fuchs" and continued his solo career in the 1990's. Also from 1995, he was part of the band 17 Hippies, where he was active until 2022.
