German reed player and flutist, born December 10, 1933 in Güstrow, Germany; died July 10, 2023 in Berlin. Nickname: Luten

Autodidact Petrowsky is considered one of the founding fathers of jazz in the German Democratic Republic. Already in the mid-1950s he played in various formations; later he became a founding member of the Manfred Ludwig Sextett, who was important to East German jazz, and performed with Joachim Kühn, Dorothy Ellison and Ruth Hohmann, among others. In 1971 he founded the jazz rock band SOK with Ulrich Gumpert and in 1973 was one of the founders of the free jazz formation Synopsis. Since 1972 he has worked together with bassist Klaus Koch in various formations.
Married to the vocalist Uschi Brüning.