Christian Steiger

Managing Director of Lexware, Germany’s market leader in business software for small companies. Before that the founder of a streaming start-up and the intrapreneur behind lexoffice, before that a producer of electronic music. The line above is what he says when people find out about the techno years. It is the key: never two lives, always both at once.

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Four areas

What he works on

LexwareManaging Director since 2019Lexware serves more than 650,000 businesses in Germany. He built lexoffice, now Lexware Office, from zero as an intrapreneur in 2010 and led innovation at the Haufe Group until 2019.lexware.de The Lena PrincipleAI as a mandated co-CEOMandate, don’t prompt. Give the AI a goal, a frame and guardrails instead of a task list, and let it act within them. Nine chapters, 46 mandates, freely available. German.das-lena-prinzip.de Tell Your StoryA stage for the self-employedLexware’s initiative that gives small businesses a voice: stories, a podcast, campaigns and, since 2026, the shirt of SC Freiburg. Germany’s four million self-employed are the backbone of the country and a footnote in public debate.tellyourstory.lexware.de MusicElectronic music producer, 1997 to 200722 releases and more than 150 compilation appearances under seventeen names, three of them on Café del Mar: Vol. 8, Vol. 11 and The Very Best Of. Composer of the official soundtrack of the Euro-Mir rollercoaster at Europa-Park, running since 1997. Full sourced discography, with an English summary.urban-listening.com/en

In short

Biography

Christian Steiger, born 1973 in Freiburg, Germany, has been Managing Director of Lexware since 2019. He studied computer science, produced electronic music from 1997 to 2007 under seventeen project names, and in 1997 wrote the soundtrack of the Euro-Mir rollercoaster at Europa-Park together with Ben Klug, which has run for thirty seasons. He joined the Haufe Group in 1999, founded the live-streaming company Zaplive in 2008, returned in 2010 to build the Blue Ocean division, took part in Stanford’s ME310 design-thinking programme and started lexoffice as employee number zero. In 2026 he published the Lena Principle, a freely available framework that treats AI as a mandated co-CEO for the self-employed. He lives in Freiburg and is the father of a daughter.

Contact

Ways

LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/steiger
Instagraminstagram.com/christiansteigr
YouTubeyoutube.com/@ChristianSteiger
E-mailkontakt@urban-listening.com

Press enquiries about Lexware go to the Lexware press office. Everything about the music is on urban-listening.com.