Hardy Kruger junior

Hardy Krüger junior at the Berlinale 2011

Hardy Kruger Jr. (Born May 9, 1968 in Lugano , Switzerland ) is a German actor .

Life

Krüger's father is the actor and writer Hardy Krüger , his mother the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi. Soon after Hardy's birth, the father and his family moved to Tanzania , where they lived on a farm that was used as the setting for the Kruger film Hatari! served.

education

Hardy Krüger Jr. spent his school days. at an international school in Germany. After training as a bartender , he took acting classes in Los Angeles from 1989 . He also worked for American television shows . In a report in Volle Kanne of ZDF said Hardy Krüger jr., He completed training as a chef.

job

After graduating in 1991, he started his career in Germany with the ARD series Not from Bad Parents and with the main role in Gegen den Wind . Since then he has appeared in several international productions like You are mine! and Asterix and Obelix versus Caesar both in 1999 in France or in 2002 in Roger Young's Dracula . He also played a leading role in 2004 in the historical epic Stauffenberg , which was awarded the German Television Prize in the “Best Film” category.

From 2006 to 2013 he worked as a forester Stefan Leitner successor to Christian Wolff in the ZDF - TV series Forsthaus Falkenau .

In 2014 and 2015 he was on stage at the Hamburger Kammerspiele and in the Harburger Theater with the play Pretty Best Friends .

engagement

Hardy Kruger Jr. is a UNICEF ambassador and campaigns against child prostitution. For this commitment he was awarded the " Kind Award 2006 " by Kinderlachen . In addition, he has taken over the patronage for the charity campaign "TukTuk-Tour" from Asia to Europe.

He is also a member of the nature alliance set up by the then Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel on the occasion of the CBD -COP9, which is committed to the preservation of biological diversity .

Hardy Krüger Jr. has been since 2010. Patron of the nature, animal and environmental film festival NaturVision , which takes place annually in the Bavarian Forest National Park .

As a brand ambassador for the fruit juice company Albi , he promotes healthy eating.

Private

Hardy Krüger junior and Katrin Fehringer (2012)

Hardy Kruger Jr. is third married to PR agent Alice Rößler. He has two sons from his first marriage and an adopted daughter and two biological children from his second marriage, who divorced in 2015.