Mastering engineer and engineer for remixes. In the beginning of the 80s he worked for TELDEC-Studio, Hamburg. He operated at the Cutting Room 1 together with Gerhard Schulze and Peter Harenberg. His signature during this time is a "E1 or E2" in the runout. The E stands for Elsner and the number for the cutting room. After it was no longer cutting in Hamburg, he was briefly in Nortorf at Teldec-Press GmbH (there he use "EN" in runouts) and went about 1985 to Sonopress in Gütersloh.