Peter Kraus
Peter Kraus ( born March 18, 1939 as Peter Siegfried Krause Ecker in Munich) is a German actor and singer.
Life
Training
The son of Austrian film director and comedian Fred Kraus, Krause actually Ecker, spent his youth alternating in Munich, Graefelfing, Vienna and Salzburg, where his father had his own small theater. During his school years Peter Kraus took singing lessons, took acting and step classes and began his career as an actor mid -1950s, with the role of Johnny in The Flying Classroom (1954 ) Based on the book by Erich Kästner.
Family
In 1969, Kraus married the photo model Ingrid. She brought daughter Gaby into the marriage, the adopted Kraus later. A few years later their son Mike was born, which is also his father is on stage and makes music. Peter Kraus and his wife live on Lake Lugano in Switzerland.
Rock and roll star
Kraus was - like his colleague Ted Herold - by music producer Gerhard Mendelson produced for Polydor Records in Vienna. Mendelson had Peter Kraus discovered after its first public concert appearance in October 1956 in Munich. In January 1957 his first single, a German cover version of Little Richard's rock ' n' roll classic Tutti Frutti was born. Kraus soon became one of the most popular German rock and roll singer and teen idols; the lanky and casual appearance of the young man was well received by the adolescents. In the first four years after its debut Kraus brought out 36 titles and sold at that time already more than 12 million records. In June 1957, the first singles chart note (Rank 8) was produced with Susi skirt.
From now on, Kraus was regularly until 1964 in the German charts. In 1958 he took the title when teenage dream, Hula Baby, the popular Sugar Baby and seventeen ( August 1958; Rank 2); In 1959, his version of Tiger. Mendelson producer acquired the rights to potential hit U.S. songs to provide them with a German text to produce with Peter Kraus. So in less than 8 years created 36 singles. That was the main reason that Kraus with a title never was able to put over a million copies, because the singles were competing with each other and their release cycle was too short. After all, 600,000 singles were sold by Sugar-Baby; the title earned him the Golden Lion of Radio Luxembourg. Initially Kraus was still heavily influenced by Elvis Presley, but he managed increasingly to find his own style. A total of 13 of his titles came from the pen of Fini Busch.
As a " nice boy next door" he also sang a duet with the female teen idol Conny Froboess and went with her on in hit films, so in 1958, when the Conny with the Peter and 1960 in Conny and Peter make music, although legal barriers between the record company difficult to overcome by Kraus and of Froboess ( Electrola ) were. Both advanced at Germany's young people the most popular movie stars of the late 1950s. In 1959 Peter Kraus performed together with his father Fred Kraus, who played in the film is also his father, in melody and rhythm on (cinema premiere on September 11, 1959). His best-selling single was a waltz, which published at the suggestion of producer Mendelson in October 1961 Black Rose, Rosemarie (Rank 5).
Kraus published together with Jörg Maria Berg some songs under the pseudonym James Brothers. He also sang, among others, Connie Francis, Lill- Babs, Danny Mann, Alice and Ellen Kessler, Gus Backus as well as Gina Dobra.
Actor
Even before the rock and roll wave ebbed, Peter Kraus had continued to work as an actor in movies and on television, for example in The girlfriend of my husband and The Pathfinder, both under under the direction of Axel von Ambesser, or in the precocious directed by Josef von Báky. He also went with his songs on tour, which also took him to France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and America.
Kraus took care of his songs on the changing music taste and distinguished himself at the beginning of the 1960s, as Germany's " cuddle singer " Number 1 So he sang in 1961 Schwarze Rose Rosemarie and reached number 5 in the German charts. He was awarded the Bronze Lion from Radio Luxembourg and other classic blues songs, like Silver Moon and Sweety, he continued his commercial success continued in 1962.
In the late 1980s Peter Kraus played in the television series The Happy Family ( produced by BR) fashion designer Henry Wolf Gruber.
On 11 July 2013, the youth comedy came System Error - When Inge dancing in the cinema, in the Kraus plays an aging pop singer.
Entertainer
Kraus also worked as a screenwriter and producer in plate appearance. His television show, " Sincerely, Peter Kraus ," in which he introduced foreign stars, aired 14 times. In 1970, Kraus was in 18 episodes of the show Master TV entertainment series " Bang - Bang ". In the same year he appeared in the "ZDF hit parade " with the hit Hoax spill. Equally popular were his appearances in the series produced by his father, " according to notes 8 x 1 ", and " Hello Peter".
Kraus also appeared in several television musicals, as in " The Pickwick Papers ", " Bel Ami ," " A Waltz Dream ", " When the Father with the Son ," " a ransom for my lady " and "No, No, Nanette ". With Cornelia Froboess he stood in 1986 after 26 years in the thriller The Summer of the Samurai by Hans -Christoph Blumenberg back together in front of the camera.
In the early summer of 2002 he came out with a new CD ("I go on " ) on the market and in the autumn of the same year he took it on tour in Germany. Overall, Peter Kraus sold more than 17 million records. In 1990 he published under the allusive title " Wop - baba -ba -lu - my ver - rocktes life," his memoirs. As a painter he was through images that are reminiscent of the works of Roy Lichtenstein, known by various exhibitions in Zurich and St. Moritz.
Kraus received numerous gold records, awards and honors, including the years 1959 to 1962 the Bravo Otto. On January 28, 2003 Kraus was awarded the Silver Medal of the city of Vienna and 2004 the Amadeus Austrian Music Award for Lifetime Achievement. On 12 March 2006, Peter Kraus, the echo - also for his life's work - awarded.
In the third season of Let's Dance (April / May 2010) Kraus was one of the four judges.
Race car driver
Peter Kraus is a great lover of classic racing cars and operated occasionally as a hobby racers, for example in Arosa ClassicCar and Enns Valley Classic.
Filmography
Awards (excerpt)
- 2003: Silver Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
- 2009: Gold Medal for Service to the City of Vienna