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Hello everyone,

It is with a heavy heart that we want to inform you that our friend, and proud Revision organizer mbb passed away Friday morning. He was hospitalized for the past few days due to a viral infection and suffered a blood clot.

mbb was dedicated to the demoscene for more than 25 years and organized parties throughout all that time. Between the ultimate Meeting, breakpoint, Revision, Underground Conference, deadline and probably more that we can’t think of now, he was always helpful, humble and occasionally (rightfully) mad at stupid visitors.

We will remember him as a family man, a friend, and an overall awesome human being.

Sleep well my friend and say hello to all the others that we have lost.

madame, D.Fox and the Revision Team


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Oh no! This is really awful news. I have known MBB for over 20, maybe even 25 years. We were never really close, but it was always nice to meet him at a party and to have a quick chat. He was a really friendly and relaxed guy. My condolences to his friends and family!

I'm heartbroken.

mbb has been one of our closest friends, and he was a wonderful person in every regard. He is leaving behind his wife and three kids.

I have first met mbb at Underground Conference in 1999, and over the years we have become close friends. We had tons of meetings, and organized a huge amount of parties together. He's been part of Underground Conference, Breakpoint and Revision organizing. He was one of the founders of the TUM party, and also was active in the TUM e.V. that is the legal entity organizing Revision and supporting various other parties.

Without exaggeration, mbb really was one of the nicest persons I have met in my whole life. He was weird in a very positive way. He was a creative weirdo, always willing to help others, and a best father one could wish for. I fondly remember the good old days when he used to shout profanities towards the Bigscreen whenever he had something to dislike about a demo. That was wonderful and always made everyone laugh.

I am normally quite relaxed when it comes to the cycle of life. But this is just not fair.

This is huge loss to the scene, a huge loss to fashion and myself, a massive loss to Germany's demo organizing crews, and an insane loss to his family.

Dear mbb, RIP.

:( RIP

This is terrible news. My heartfelt condolences go to madame and the rest of his family, who have become part of UC and other parties just like mbb himself. Sharing a ride with him to demoparties was always a nice experience as he was a fun and relaxed guy. And that he didn't want anything in return was particularly helpful when I was still a student. Parties will definitely feel emptier without him.

Rest in peace, mbb.

My mind doesn't want to realise what devastating information it has to process.

Mbb and I met at technical high school and quickly became friends. Even though we were quite different in nature, we bonded over our interest in unorthodox methods of using computers for things that no one else seemed to think of.

And soon after, he and two other friends of his suggested travelling to the north of Germany to attend something incomprehensible called a "demoparty" (Mekka&Symposium'97).

Over the years, we attended more and more demoparties in more and more countries. We were together in the group "The Ultimate Mayas". We organised the Ultimate Meeting. Together with d.fox, we founded TUM e.V.

Some friendships became closer and dissolved again, but mbb was simply a constant over the years.

I got to know almost all the demosceners of my early years through him. I lived through the time with him when he met his future wife. I went to their wedding. Later, we went our own ways more and more when I moved further away to Leipzig. But we never lost contact.

I can't imagine what a world without him would feel like. My heart is broken.

Oh Oli, I am so sorry for your family, your wife and your children.

I will miss you immensely and I will treasure the memories of all the good times we had.

Rest in peace, my dear friend.

those terrible news struck me really hard and I can't really say right now, how deeply saddened I am and how much I feel with his wife and kids, madame and her family and his many, many close friends.

he was among the first people I got to know when starting my demoscene adventure back in 1999 and also one of the first I would consider a close contact and friend within the demoscene.

since quite a few years meeting him did not only happen when visiting or organizing demoparties, but also in private with our growing families.

either way, meeting him always was amonst the biggest pleasures I can remember. speaking about revision, I will remember him for being a team member with a vast experience in all areas, a never-tired worker guy that will get any job done when it needs to be done, yet always being friendly and welcoming.

we will all miss you very much.

ffs why

words cannot describe my feelings right now. i was released from hospital 2 weeks minus 14 hours ago after suffering a viral infection, a couple of blood diseases and possibly some problem with my heart. kept it quiet internationally because well, i don't fucking even know anymore, that was really effin stupid. life is precious people. please give eachother hugs, and accept the virtual ones i'm extending to you right now. please forgive me for losing track of the fact that however bad my own suffering may have been, others could very well suffer worse. and this of course affects the people around them, like it affects those closest to me.

mbb, you were always good to those around you, even if they maybe got stuck in their ways. i will remember you forever as the always friendly and calm person that i came to know over so many years, at so many demoparties. i hope there's a heaven, and that they serve awesome veg food there- no problem if it contains a little butter <3

how unbearably sad.

mbb was one of my favorite people in the scene, and that means he was one of my favorite people in the world. a surprisingly physical person who with his friends wouldn't shy away from anything, up to quite serious (playful!) roughhousing. a man capable of coming up with delightful and sometimes delightfully daft surprises in any given situation. we had a tradition of ambushing each other with awful, awful puns, and that is how I will remember him: walking up to me unseen in the middle of both of us doing other, unrelated things and dealing mental damage directly into my ear with a whispered, giddy, groan-inducing gag he'd clearly been saving up for the occasion.

my heart goes out to his family, and everyone else who feels his loss.

bon voyagereuxégeracserouxelles, mbb

This is so sad and uncalled for :( mbb was one of the standing pillars in the demoscene. We have very much to thank him for over all these past demoscene years, maybe even more than one might realize at first. He's been someone to look forward to meeting in person at any given demoparty or at the Revision infodesk. He's always been a well respected visitor, a dedicated organizer and mastermind, and above all a close friend to many of us.

My condolences go out to his family, madame, dfox, and everyone who has lost a close and very special person that Friday morning. Rest in peace, dear mbb <3

MBB was the calm guy…the nice guy.
The good soul. A pure heart.
Over all the decades i cant remember seeing him upset or anything near...and we where crewmates at so many parties (Breakpoint, Underground Conference, Revision).

He always thought in solutions, not problems.
Dojoe remembered last night about the Fork Lift Drama i caused 2019 at revision, where i ripped of a metal plate from the floor with...the forklifter - because i was too dumb to lift the fork properly.

While we were all standing around admiring the problem and even Styx couldn't do anything with a drill - MBB pushed us all aside and did what an MBB does: he solved the problem and added a demoscene effect.

Can be seen here


He was always there for a deeptalk, about life and family.
He always REALLY wanted to know, what’s up with my son, if he is okay and what he is up to.

I am scared about the upcoming revision anyway, because Acryds death totally kicked me out of my mental stability and I am still not at the point of accepting - so i can „kind of“ imagine what the close MBB Family may go through.

What i realised is, that all the bullshit we chase is meaningless.
Its the people we love and the ones who love us.

I loved MBB and will miss him.
My condolences to his family (which includes the close friends).

RIP :(

We weren't close friends, we only met once or twice a year at parties, but he always struck me as one of the pillars of these events. Lots of hard work, also physical labor to provide stable foundations for running the whole thing, super friendly and helpful to everyone, solving all the problems he encountered, yet always up for a good laugh, chit-chat, banter, or even deeper talk. This is a huge loss to the scene and the Revision team, and I can't even start to comprehend what people who were closer to him must feel right now.

I'll miss you man. Condolences to his family and close friends.

when i returned to the demoscene at uc11 in 2021, mbb was one of the reasons i did so. i'd struggled for weeks with my anxiety and couldn't decide whether to go or not. the party started and was occiasionally streamed. i watched the oggward music competition as mbb was on stage, freaking around, someone glueing gummi bears on his body. at least that's how i remember it and i was laughing so hard and finally decided to join the party for the last weekend. i did not get disappointed, on the contrary, it felt like i've never really been away and was so happy to see a few of the old faces from uc3d in 1999 including mbb, again.

the picture from 2022 is a screenshot from a video that i took of him at uc12. i loved mbb's uniques pausbäckchen (chubby cheeks) so much and asked him if i could pinch them and send a video to my partner obolebe to show him how amazing they are. is it weird? yes. was mbb irritated? yes! did he let me do it anyways? of course!

mbb was such a sunshine and always so cute with his three awesome kids. i had the impression he was a sweet husband, too. he was worried because the upcoming uc would have collided with his and petras's wedding anniversary.

i'm devastated that one of the strongest demoscene party pillars and amazing humans has been taken away, leaving an empty spot, that cannot be filled ever again. petra, madame, everyone, i am so sorry and sad and i wish for everyone that you can find comfort in each other and the lovely people who are still there.

goodbye, mega magic boy

This is so saddening. My condolences to his family and friends. <3

Very sad to read that... I met him a couple of time, and he was the kind you want to know more.

My heartfelt condolences to the family and close circle. He will be missed but not forgotten

RIP :(

I' am speechless. I met mbb at several parties and it was everytime a heartwarming meeting with so much fun and also serious conversations.

A big loss to the scene and of course his family. My deepest condolences!

mbb, see you on the other side.

I've lost track of time but it was around the 'Christmas with your real family' themed TUM, so 2003, 2004 - in that region - that I first got to know MBB. I was a visitor on the first TUM I went to and did infodesk at the 2nd.. So lets make that 2004.. Its not so important. After TUM I had nothing to do so I stayed over with the organizers for newyear, that was at MBBs home - a few minutes away from the venue. It was a great social experience where I got to know Dfox, Madame, Petra, Scamp, Eha, Fzool, Scoup, Paniq... All in this little flat on the top floor of a huge house in a silly german village. Walking back from the NYE fireworks I ended up talking to Scamp and joined the Breakpoint orga team, which led to me being the Revision main compo orga all those years later...

But not just the demoparties.. Yes there was Tum, Breakpoint and UNC as co-organizers but also the inbetween events. BBQ's on the crazy rooftop garden of his building, random cocktail parties, MBB made it all happen. And when not organizing it was evaluating the others in good tongue-in-cheek. Memorable discussions about that we are not going to organizer another demoparty were held at Buenzli, Evoke and Nordlicht - where the Orgasnobs where born. We had our anual meeting at Revision going thru the entries of the animation/video and wild compos going thru all the travel videos and re-submitted entries... Oh and dont forget the musicdisks...

MBB was also a troubled person sometimes... Always willing to help but stuck in a dead-end carreer as the job he trained for got wiped out by technology. He opened up again when he found his calling as a father for his kids, and there were again crazy summer barbeque's.. Same silly village but in a different garden this time.. And nobody complained...

Next to the compo organiser at Revision MBB also had a huge part in decorating the early events. That camera wall at Breakpoint in the room between entrance and the main hall ? His work... That desk that Evilbot stood behind at Revision, he made that.. Its perhaps still in his garage. Driving around with the scissor lift at Revision to hang up banners, aim lights, pull cables all at great hights.. One of the few people crazy enough to get out of the lift and walk on the bridge at Revision ? Yep... He did all that with a tremendous Can Do attitude that not many folks have...

I have a running joke with my partner that we should make him a tshirt... Every year at Revision the family swings by and says hello and MBB was the happy joyfull dad while having to filter thru tons and tons of entries in animation/video and wild compos... And when the family left he would just walk up to us and say 'papa kan saufen....'

And then madame called me on friday february 23rd at 20:21... The good guys go first....

I guess we were too late with getting that tshirt fixed :(

Trying to sort myself and my thoughts. Condolences to all his friends and family.

Shocked and incredibly sad, I'm trying to somehow process and cope with the news about mbb's death, which reached me so unprepared and unexpectedly last night. Like some others, I think I've known mbb since the very late 90s. Maybe some Dialogos party? It doesn't matter because we met again and again. Every year I briefly saw his children at Revision and saw how they grew bigger and older. A great family and right now I regret not taking more time to talk to them, but it's too late now. I perceived mbb as a reliable constant in the demo scene and at demo parties, an important support for the demo scene and it was always noticeable that the demo scene meant a lot to him.
My thoughts are with the family, the children, the close friends and I can't even imagine what this immense loss means. Too early, too young and simply unfair. Lots of strength and energy for those left behind during this difficult time.
Rest in peace, mbb! <3

i don't know how to react to this other than with a string of expletives cursing the gods. although we haven't had much opportunity to speak in the past years, he was a close friend to me, and i was often thinking of him.

Thanks for all your hard orga-work mbb, and thanks for being one of the nicest sceners I know.
May you find peace now.