Felix Flaucher and Axel Kretschmann founded Silke Bischoff in 1990. Frank Schwer became the third permanent member later.
When Axel Kretschmann quit in 2002 it came to a legal battle regarding the naming rights of Silke Bischoff. Flaucher and Schwer continued under the name 18 Summers.
Felix Flaucher died on 23 August 2017 after a long illness.
In 2025 Axel Kretschmann reformed the band and played a tribute show at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany.
Silke Bischoff was the name of an 18 year old girl that was murdered by criminals after a bank robbery and hostage crisis in Gladbeck (Germany) on August 18th, 1988.
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