Musician, record producer, artist and photographer Konrad Lenz was born Konrad Crnkovic in Sydney, July 9, 1973 of English, Croatian and Hungarian ancestry. His uncle is Croatian film and stage actor Zlatko Crnkovic. Konrad Lenz took his last name from a novella by George Buchner. He studied visual arts at the Canberra School of Art and the Sydney Gallery School and began making music in his early twenties. His voice is a deep growl somewhere between Howling Wolf, Johnny Cash and Patti Smith. His music is raw and visceral, marked by a fierce but melancholy intelligence. Musical influences include Bob Dylan,  Jacques Brel, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, Bon Scott, Brian Eno, Ishman Bracey, Kurt Wiell, Marianne Faithfull, Doc Neeson, Buffy Sainte Marie, Lou Reed, Popul Vuh and Glenn Danzig. Years of poverty hardened him and helped give his work its gritty edge.  His lyrics are surreal, filmic documents peopled with lost characters inhabiting a dark nether world. His music has been played on Radio National, Triple J, ABC 666 and 2xx FM. An obsessive collector, he has over 2,500 albums on vinyl and another 500 on CD plus several thousand novels, comics, film scripts and other paraphenalia.

 In 2003 he met Tom Woodward, the young writer, musician, theatre director and events organizer. He worked with Tom and the POTU Ensemble on their production 'Picture Book of the Universe,' was music director on the POTU's 'Palpitations: Sketches of a Doomed Youth' and produced Tom Woodward's first solo album, 'Villain.' Soon after, Tom's own fearsome band, the neo-punk Henchmen, formed the nucleus of the Lenzmen, a cacophinous 7 piece unit which blended a jagged rock & roll intensity with harsh folk stylings and a smouldering lyricism unlike anything else. After line-up changes and a three year history they are now known as the Spirits of the Dead. All of the Henchmen are still members of the band.

 In 2006 Konrad Lenz scored the incidental music for Joe Woodward's production The Naked Godess, performed at DNA Studios in Canberra. 

 Konrad Lenz has produced recordings in his own ramshackle studio, the White Room, for artists such as Genevieve Elmes, Mikelangelo, Johnny Huckle, Randall Blair and Alice Cottee.

 He has exhibited his paintings, collage and photography in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and has been in group shows at the ABC Studios in Ultimo, Sydney, the Fringe Gallery in Newtown, The TAP Gallery in Paddington, Casula Powerhouse in Western Sydney and various other locations. In 1994 he won the Noel Chettle Drawing award for excellence in drawing and painting.

 From 2004 to 2005 he spent a year working in the Australian War Memorial's Print Room, an experience which he says was "like another art school for me." It was there that he got to see, first hand, many works by Sydney Nolan, Clifton Pugh, George Grosz, Otto Dix and William Dobel, artists who he feels a deep connexion with.

 He cites Martin Sharp, Max Ernst and Joseph Cornell as major influences on his collage.

 Konrad Lenz has made poster and CD designs for various bands, events and theatre productions including Moh Van Wah, the Henchmen, the National Multicultural Fringe, barb barnett's adaption of 'Ubu Roi' and others. He has documented the Canberra music and arts scene with his camera for several years now and plans to exibit these images and publish them in book form.

 In 2000 he began working on an aborted book project titled 'Yellow Brick Road: Journeys Through the Arts in the Land of Oz. It was to be a book of interviews of people who had worked in the arts in Australia. He interviewed, amongst others, well known broadcaster, newspaper columnist and ex-film producer Phillip Adams, writer Lowell Tarling and photographer Jon Lewis. He has recently resumed work on this project and hopes to find a publisher.

 Much of his work, whether songwriting, painting, photography or conducting interviews, can be seen as a form of portraiture. It almost soley deals with character studies both real and fictional.

 He has dabbled in film and acting and has plans to make a full length feature, Red Dirt Timescape, a violent science fiction revenge flick involving three characters, a McGuffin and buckets of blood.

 Konrad Lenz lives alone in a double garage made of tin with a large friendly doberman x named Josef. His guitar of choice is a 1962 Hofner Congress Model archtop acoustic that he bought in 1995 for $60. He also plays a 1950s Isana guitar (just like the King.)