Artist Info: Peter Kraus

Peter Siegfried Krausenecker, known as Peter Kraus, born on 18 March 1939 in Munich, is a German-Austrian actor and singer. The son of Austrian director and cabaret artist Fred Kraus, he spent his youth alternating between Munich and Salzburg, where his father ran a small theatre. During his school years, Peter Kraus took singing lessons, acting classes, and tap-dancing courses and began his acting career in the mid-1950s with the role of Johnny in Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (1954), based on the novel by Erich Kästner. [read more...]