23 Facts About Wolf Hoffmann

Wolf Hoffmann was born on 10 December 1959 and is a German musician, primarily known as the guitarist and last remaining original member of heavy metal band Accept since 1976.

Wolf Hoffmann is one of the first players of neoclassical metal.

Baltes left Accept in 2018 and Wolf Hoffmann is the last original member.

Wolf Hoffmann has released two neoclassical solo albums, Classical and Headbangers Symphony.

Wolf Hoffmann was born on 10 December 1959 in Mainz, West Germany.

Wolf Hoffmann moved with his parents to Wuppertal at the age of six.

Wolf Hoffmann's father was a chemistry professor and his mother a housewife.

However, Wolf Hoffmann became interested in playing the guitar and got his first acoustic guitar from his parents by promising to take playing lessons.

Wolf Hoffmann was not enthusiastic about playing the acoustic guitar and took playing lessons only for a year.

Wolf Hoffmann attended a prestigious high school and was particularly successful in ancient Greek and Latin.

Wolf Hoffmann became Accept's guitarist a few weeks before his 17th birthday.

Since Restless and Wild Wolf Hoffmann has played the majority of all the guitar parts on Accept's studio albums, although the entire band is typically listed on the records.

Wolf Hoffmann made two more albums, Death Row and Predator, with Accept before the band disbanded again in 1997.

In July 2022, Wolf Hoffmann revealed that he has started writing material for the next Accept album that will possibly be released in 2023.

In 1997, Wolf Hoffmann released the album Classical with rock versions of classical music works.

In July 2022, Wolf Hoffmann told that he has worked some tracks and ideas for a third neoclassical solo album but it will not be released in the near future.

Wolf Hoffmann has loved photography as a hobby early on, and eventually made it his second career.

Wolf Hoffmann took the cover photo for 1993's Objection Overruled.

Wolf Hoffmann continued to photograph for a few years after Accept's comeback in the 2010s until he quit professional photography due to lack of time.

Wolf Hoffmann is currently based both in Nashville, Tennessee, and Florida.

Wolf Hoffmann was married to Gaby Wolf Hoffmann, who used to be Accept's manager.

Wolf Hoffmann contributed to Accept's songwriting under the pseudonym Deaffy.

Now Wolf Hoffmann is in a relationship with Ava-Rebekah Rahman, who had accompanied the band on the European Orchestra Tour "Symphonic Terror" in 2019 as a violinist.