Career
He also had appearances in movies and series as "Weißblaue Wintergeschichten" ("Wintertime Stories"), "Das Traumschiff", and "Soko Special". By 1997, Lindner abandoned classical Volksmusik in order to make more progressive music By this time, his coming out and his relationship with manager Michael Link made him popular in Germany – newspapers called them a "Germany"s top gay couple".
They adopted eight-month-old Daniel, a child brought up in an institution in Russia.
The couple broke up in March, 2005.
