It all started the year 1987 when Markus Reinhardt and Pompejo Ricciardi formed a band they called Wolfsheim. The name was not based on the Rhenish town of the same name but reflects to a novel character created by Scott Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby".

With two more demotapes, Wolfsheim applied at labels, receiving nothing but rejections. Only Lothar Gärtner, at the time being the only employee at Strange Ways Records, was attentive to Wolfsheim. So in 1991 the first single The Sparrows And The Nightingales was released on Strange Ways Records, the label Wolfsheim are still loyal to. Sparrows turned immediately and without much promotion into a huge clubhit. Today, this song stands as a classic and is missing neither on a DJ-event nor on a compilation seriously dealing with electronic music of the 80s.

Ten years later in 2001 Markus Reinhardt and Jose Alvarez are recording the first videoclip for the first Care Conpany single Gain Again in the U.S. Peter Heppner is celebrating another charthis with his collaboration with Schiller and the song Dream Of You, the video (shot in Barcelona) is running on "heavy rotation" at MTV and VIVA. Peter is recording the song Glasgarten together with Goethes Erben, which they performed together at several Erben-gigs, also at the M'era Luna festival where Marilyn Manson were headlining. Peter is flying to iceland with Goethes Erben to produce a videoclip for Glasgarten and in september Wolfsheim are in the studios again to record songs for the new album. At the same time, the Spectators album is licensed with Metropolis Records in the U.S. and is turning into a huge success. The tour planned for october 2001 had to be cancelled due to the terror attacks at World Trade Center.