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.

Silke Bischoff was the name of an 18 year old girl that was murdered by criminals after a bankrobbery and hostage crisis in Gladbeck (Germany) on the 18th August 1988.