okr said:
Yes, he's Italian, but he is from South Tyrol, where the majority of people speak German, and he ran a studio in Munich in the 70s and 80s. |
The town where he was born at Urtijei, Italy 84.19% of the population speaks Ladin so that's probably the language he learned and spoke first before Italian and German. He also has the most common last name from that town.