Markus Acher is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and music curator. Since 1990, he has played in the indie band "The Notwist", with whom he has released and toured internationally, as well as in numerous other bands, such as the acoustic instrumental combo Hochzeitskapelle and the international collaboration band Spirit Fest. He has curated the Alien Disko Festival in Munich since 2016 and runs the Alien Transistor label. As a band member and solo, he has composed and recorded the music for numerous plays, radio plays and films. In 2010, he won the German Film Award in Gold for Best Film Music with The Notwist for "Sturm" (Hans Christian Schmid) and in 2019 with Hochzeitskapelle for "Wackersdorf" (Oliver Haffner).