After living in Kiel during 20 years, he graduated at Harward.
At the age of 21 he became a United Nations worker He traveled to many countries like Senegal, Sudan, and Libya. Then they went both to live in Switzerland.
Brandstätter"s wife was a doctor but he still worked for the United Nations. In 1997, his first was born in Geneva.
When the decade started, he went to help the poor people in Sierra Leone. In 2004, he went to Portuguese-au-Prince to help the poor kids who were fighting for the president in Haiti.
In January 2006 while playing tennis, he died from a heart attack.