Wolf Hoffmann

Wolf Hoffmann was born on 10 December 1959 in Mainz, West Germany. He moved with his parents to Wuppertal at the age of six. His father was a chemistry professor and his mother a housewife. The parents hoped their son would go to university and pursue an academic career. However, Hoffmann became interested in playing the guitar and got his first acoustic guitar from his parents by promising to take playing lessons. Hoffmann was not enthusiastic about playing the acoustic guitar and took playing lessons only for a year. His passion for playing returned after he got his first electric guitar. While studying in middle school, Hoffmann played the guitar with his friends every day. There were the occasional bands that would usually last only a few rehearsals. Rehearsals were mostly for hanging out and having fun. Hoffmann attended a prestigious high school and was particularly successful in ancient Greek and Latin. Though he was coaxed by his parents and teachers to pursue higher education and Hoffmann himself considered applying for a spot at a conservatory, he ultimately decided to continue building his nascent music career by committing fully to Accept.

Hoffmann has loved photography as a hobby early on, and eventually made it his second career. He took the cover photo for 1993's Objection Overruled. During Accept's hiatus from 1997, Hoffmann worked as a professional photographer. He continued to photograph for a few years after Accept's comeback in the 2010s until he quit professional photography due to lack of time. Hoffmann is currently based both in Nashville, Tennessee, and Florida. He also maintains a residence in Berlin. Hoffmann was married to Gaby Hoffmann (née Hauke), who used to be Accept's manager. She contributed to Accept's songwriting under the pseudonym Deaffy. Now Wolf 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.