Volkert Kraeft

Volkert Kraeft ( born August 7, 1941 in Timmendorfer beach, Baltic Sea) is a German actor.

Life

With his two siblings Volkert Kraeft grew up in Lübeck and Kiel. The theater was after he had his first experience in student theater, his passion. This appears in his later career aspirations developed, and finally he got leading roles in the city theater of Kiel. His father, craftsmen, was against this desire in life. Volkert Kraeft first therefore made an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk, but took lessons from the way an actor. Finally, he took a job after completing his training in order to finance his private lessons.

With the first engagement at the theater in Lüneburg began his new life. Many engagements followed, and at the theater in Ingolstadt he was discovered by Fritz Umgelter for his first television role, fried potatoes included. Volkert Kraeft eventually became known and was occupied in many roles, from then on began a great career in particular on television. In 1980 he had as Chief Inspector Sander made ​​an appearance as a crime scene Commissioner in Frankfurt scene with bare feet; the result was due to its ambiguous phraseology about epilepsy in the film plot has not been repeated ( so-called poison cupboard sequence).

1978 during the filming of the series The Buddenbrooks Kraeft met his future wife Edeltraud. Nine years later they got married.

Filmography (selection)

TV

Cinema

Synchronization

As a voice actor he borrowed, inter alia, Van Heflin ( act of God), John Hurt ( The Shout ), Gerald McRaney ( The Neverending Story ), Martin Short ( The -Ding million ) and Burt Reynolds ( BL Stryker ) his voice.