Joachim Witt (born February 22, 1949 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German musician and actor. Life and work Joachim Witt became a major star of the German pop scene during the Eighties with huge hits such as "Herbergsvater" and "Der Goldene Reiter". He was one of the biggest names of the so-called "Neue Deutsche Welle" (new German wave), which performers like Nena and Falco were also a part of. He made a big comeback at the end of the Nineties, when he scored a major hit with "Die Flut", a duet with Peter Heppner, the singer of popular German synth pop group Wolfsheim. Witts album "Bayreuth 1" (1998) scored platinum in Germany and Austria. "Bayreuth 2" followed two years later. His music in those days resembled the hard hitting sounds of Rammstein, albeit with a gothic touch, that owed a lot of inspiration to legendary German composer Richard Wagner. He has collaborated with such artists as Apocalyptica, OOMPH!, Angelzoom, T