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I just found something that I wrote once and that I had nearly forgotten. During the last two weeks a British journalist had asked me something about old times in Berlin with KS and Tangerine Dream, and while I was exchanging mails with this friendly Briton (who is working on some re-releases of T.D. albums) trying to be of some help, this story came again to my mind. I still find it of interest because it has to do with music and with KS, at least in the broader sense.
I found my article in an older THE KS CIRCLE ( issue 66 from January 2002):

While I type this page (on 4th of January between 7 and 7:45 in the evening) I also listen to the radio (Deutschlandfunk), and there's a broadcast about the life story of a German lady, a classical violin player and music pedagogue. After the stories about her first musical inspirations (coming from a totally non-musical home) by listening to the street musicians who used to play on Berlin's backyards, then about her studies in Berlin under the nazis, about the end of the war in Berlin when the house collapsed and she was in the air-raid shelter underneath, ...the sympathetic lady mentions her daughter (born 1950) who also started to study the violin (at the age of 5), and then she mentions her son, who didn't want to study violin, but instead he started to learn the trumpet (because it was louder than the united violins of sister & mother), but he had to drop it because of a lip allergy, and then he learned to play the drums (also pretty loud). One day the son travelled to London, and brought the first synthesizer back to Berlin, (here my ears became bigger and I started to listen more carefully to the background radio), the son then studied English written synthesizer manuals in his little private room in Berlin Eichkamp, and then a certain Edgar Froese asked him to take the chair of Klaus Schulze who had just left the group...
And now I really paid attention to the name of the lady and her son. It was: Franke. The son was Christoph Franke. Mother lives now [2002 this was] in a monastery in Germany's Lower Saxonia.