Max Richard Leßmann is a singer, podcaster and poet. At the age of 14, he founded the band "Vierkanttretlager" together with three school friends, with whom he released two albums over the next 10 years, played countless concerts and reached sixth place for Schleswig-Holstein at Stefan Raab's Bundesvision Songcontest 2012. During this time, he got to know many musicians from various genres and wrote his first songs with greats like Casper and Prinz Pi while still at school.

In the following years and until today, he has worked for Ina Müller, Ok Kid, Madsen, Slime, Alli Neumann and many others. In 2017, he released his first solo album entitled "Liebe in Zeiten der Follower" (Love in Times of Followers), which was produced together with Johannes and Sebastian Madsen. During this time, Max began publishing poems on his Instagram channel, which developed into the poetry series "The Romantic Poem on the Internet" over the next few years. The occasional poems have now become daily publications for almost three years, which he shares with his now 80,000 very active followers.

Also since 2017, he and his colleague Elena Gruschka have been running the podcast "Niemand Muss Ein Promi Sein" (No One Needs to Be a Celebrity), with which the two made their secret love for absurd stories from the world of the rich and beautiful public and now present them to more than 30,000 listeners every week. Since 2020, they have been working closely with the Pro7/Sat1 group, were the official podcast for various reality formats of both channels and appeared several times as celebrity experts on Sat 1 Frühstücksfernsehen. Max Richard Leßmann is 30 years old, grew up in Husum on the North Sea and now lives and works in Berlin.