Spaceman Spiff is the stage name of Hannes Wittmer, a German singer and songwriter born in 1986 in Würzburg, Bavaria. Hannes Wittmer grew up in a village close to Würzbug, the city where he began sport studies. He quit those to move to Hamburg, where he started working in the music industry. His first album, "Bodenangst", was released in 2009, first with Retter des Rock Records, before it was rereleased with a municipal label, under the pseudonym Spaceman Spiff.