Andi Thoma Powers the Music of an Otherworldly Mouse on Mars
PRODIGY
He was a dysfunctional kid. She was the teacher who befriended him and gave him confidence to be himself. Marianne Schaefer Trench on the boy who would become a musical cult hero.
When Andi Thoma and Jan St. Werner founded the Berlin-based music project Mouse on Mars in 1993, I thought the name was oddly fitting. I had known Andi for many years and would have described him as self-deprecating (a little mouse), a space cadet, a genius who just might make...
