• Yamamoto, Jōchō: Die Lebensweise eines Samurai (A Samurai's Way of Life), From the »Hagakure«, Translated by Max Seinsch, Stuttgart: Reclam 2013.
• Yamamoto, Jōchō: Hagakure, Translation and commentary by Max Seinsch, Stuttgart: Reclam 2009.
• Andreas Niehaus, Max Seinsch (eds.), Olympic Japan: Ideals and Realities of (Inter)Nationalism, Würzburg: Ergon 2007.

Since November 2024: Teaching Saturdays' regular class at Aikido Dojo München.

Since August 2024: Teaching Mondays' regular class at Aikido Dojo München.

Since June 2024: Teaching Mondays' Kids' class at Aikido Dojo München.

April 2024: Successful participation at Special Association for Aikido in Bavaria's Specialist Trainer Licence course.

8th-12th of January 2024 Coaching the Dan grading preparation course in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

October 2023 til Jly 2024 Teacher of TSV Grünwald's (Munich) Aikidō course

2016-2023 Teacher of Free University Berlin's sports program Aikidō course

2016 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō Seminar in Takasaki, Japan

11th of January, 2015, Promotion to 5th Dan, Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Japan

2014-2020 Member of the Grading Committee of the German Aikido Federation

2013-2020 Head of Aikidōkan Berlin

2012 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō

Seminar in Tōkyō, Japan

2012-2013 Aikidō teacher at Aikidō Dōjō am Gleisdreieck, Berlin

2010-2019 Interpreter at British Aikidō Federation Summer School,

Chester
 

2000-2010 Aikidō at Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Tōkyō

Main teachers:

• Dōshu Ueshiba Moriteru

• Yokota Yoshiaki Shihan

• Kobayashi Yukimitsu Shihan

2007-2010 Voluntary manager of Aikikai Honbu Dōjō

May 2009 Grading to 4. Dan, Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Japan

2008 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō

Seminar in Tanabe, Japan

2000-2004 Participation at International Budō Seminar in Katsuura,

Japan

Organizer: Nippon Budōkan

1996-99 Aikidō and Kashima Shin-ryū Kenjutsu at Shiseikan,

Dōjō of Meiji Shrine, Tōkyō

Teachers:

• Tanaka Shigeho Meiyo Kanchō

• Inaba Minoru Kanchō

1998 Grading to 1. Dan

1993-97 Seiryūkai Aiki-Jūjutsu, Tōkyō

Teacher: Nishiyama Hiroshi Shihan

1995 Grading to 2. Dan

1991-93 Aikidō at University of Cologne and Martial Arts School

Bushido

Teacher: Asai Katsuaki Shihan

1985 General Coaching Licence of German Sports Association

1983-91 Karate-dō and Okinawa Kobudō at Asahi Telgte e.V.

Teacher: Gisbert Krebs

6. Mai 1995 1. Dan awarded

1982-83 Jūjutsu at Warendorfer Sportunion e.V.

Since August 2024: Teaching Mondays' regular class at Aikido Dojo München.

Since June 2024: Teaching Mondays' Kids' class at Aikido Dojo München.

April 2024: Successful participation at Special Association for Aikido in Bavaria's Specialist Trainer Licence course.

8th-12th of January 2024 Coaching the Dan grading preparation course in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

October 2023 til Jly 2024 Teacher of TSV Grünwald's (Munich) Aikidō course

2016-2023 Teacher of Free University Berlin's sports program Aikidō course

2016 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō Seminar in Takasaki, Japan

11th of January, 2015, Promotion to 5th Dan, Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Japan

2014-2020 Member of the Grading Committee of the German Aikido Federation

2013-2020 Head of Aikidōkan Berlin

2012 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō

Seminar in Tōkyō, Japan

2012-2013 Aikidō teacher at Aikidō Dōjō am Gleisdreieck, Berlin

2010-2019 Interpreter at British Aikidō Federation Summer School,

Chester
 

2000-2010 Aikidō at Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Tōkyō

Main teachers:

• Dōshu Ueshiba Moriteru

• Yokota Yoshiaki Shihan

• Kobayashi Yukimitsu Shihan

2007-2010 Voluntary manager of Aikikai Honbu Dōjō

May 2009 Grading to 4. Dan, Aikikai Honbu Dōjō, Japan

2008 Voluntary manager and interpreter at International Aikidō

Seminar in Tanabe, Japan

2000-2004 Participation at International Budō Seminar in Katsuura,

Japan

Organizer: Nippon Budōkan

1996-99 Aikidō and Kashima Shin-ryū Kenjutsu at Shiseikan,

Dōjō of Meiji Shrine, Tōkyō

Teachers:

• Tanaka Shigeho Meiyo Kanchō

• Inaba Minoru Kanchō

1998 Grading to 1. Dan

1993-97 Seiryūkai Aiki-Jūjutsu, Tōkyō

Teacher: Nishiyama Hiroshi Shihan

1995 Grading to 2. Dan

1991-93 Aikidō at University of Cologne and Martial Arts School

Bushido

Teacher: Asai Katsuaki Shihan

1985 General Coaching Licence of German Sports Association

1983-91 Karate-dō and Okinawa Kobudō at Asahi Telgte e.V.

Teacher: Gisbert Krebs

6. Mai 1995 1. Dan awarded

1982-83 Jūjutsu at Warendorfer Sportunion e.V.

2013-2020 Head of Aikidōkan Berlin

2012-2013 Aikidō teacher at Aikidō Dōjō am Gleisdreieck, Berlin

2010-2012 Translator (German/English/Japanese)

1999-2010 Lecturer at several universities in Tōkyō (Keiō Gijuku University, Waseda University, et al.)

2004-2006 regular TV appearance in NHK “German Conversation”

1994-2006 Lecturer at several private language schools and cultural

institutes (Asahi Culture Center, et al.)

1995-2000 Graduate School and M.A. for Asian Studies at Sophia

University, Tōkyō (Honors degree)

1996 Japanese Proficiency Test 1. kyū (highest level) passed

1993-1995 Japanese language studies at Tōkyō School of the Japanese

Language

1990-1993 Japanese Studies at University of Cologne

simultaneously Japanese conversation courses at Japanese Cultural Institute, Cologne

1989-1990 Mathematics and Computer Science studies at University

of Münster

1988 High School Graduation at Private Episcopal High School

Johanneum, Ostbevern

Born 1967