Tommy Krappweis
Thomas "Tommy" Krappweis (born May 9, 1972 in Munich ) is a German author , comedian , director , producer , stunt performer and musician .
He became known as an ensemble member of the comedy series RTL Saturday Night , to which he belonged from 1995 to 1998, and as the inventor of the KiKA figure Bernd das Brot , for which he received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2004 . In addition to his work as a screenwriter, director and film and television producer, he has also been writing children's and youth literature and autobiographical books since 2009. He filmed the first volume of his fantasy trilogy Mara and the Fire Bringer himself in 2013. He is the founder and managing director of the production company bumm film based in Otterfing near Munich .
Childhood and youth
Tommy Krappweis was born and raised in Munich- Neuperlach . He has a brother named Nico who is six years his junior. His father Werner Krappweis, a passionate athlete and multiple Bavarian racing bike champion, was a master car mechanic at Post, his mother Karin a gymnastics teacher. Later, together with his father, Krappweis wrote two autobiographical books about the sometimes life-threatening childhood experiences with his parents, who were crazy about wild camping and sports. His creative talent was already evident in his childhood. He was on stage for the first time as a second grader in the role of Karl Valentin in the sketch Im Zoologischer Garten , in third grade he wrote the play Pumuckl and the flu pills and shot his first stop-motion film on Super-8. At the age of 14 he spoke in various children's radio plays. After completing secondary school, Krappweis attended the Munich technical college for design, exhibited his own comics and made street music in the Munich pedestrian zone. He played drums and guitar and sang in the bands The Medleys and Ricky's Rockers . After graduating from college, he worked in the western town No Name City , an amusement park in Poing near Munich. There he was on stage several times a day in the saloon show, where he sang, danced and trained as Miss Annie Oakley , the great sniper , in target shooting. He later accompanied the western circus Red Grizzly Saloon , which roamed through Germany , wrote and choreographed the stunt shows and worked in the Hansa-Park as a Buster-Keaton double and stuntman. During this time he later wrote the book Four Fists for a Black Eye together with Heinz Bründl, the founder of No Name City .
Career
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Krappweis started out as an actor and presenter, but now works mainly as a director, screenwriter and producer. Occasionally he can still be seen in small roles in Bernd das Bread or heard as a speaker. He had his first small television role at the age of 16 in Forsthaus Falkenau . He played his first real role in 1993 in the ZDF series SOKO 5113 . Three years later he was hired again for this series. In 1994, Tommy Krappweis presented the youth magazine Disney TV for RTL for seven months and also worked for it at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
RTL Saturday night
From autumn 1995 to April 30, 1998, Krappweis was shown on RTL Saturday Night , where he more and more often took the place behind the camera, writing, shooting and editing. Together with the authors Holger Schmidt , Ralf Betz and his colleague Mirco Nontschew he invented the series Far Out , in which the extreme sports wave was parodied, and anticipated such later developments as Jackass , which a few years later was a real broadcast on MTV established.
With Wigald Boning , Krappweis shot several clips on his own in the last year of the show . During the time at RTL Saturday Night , due to Far Out , Mirco Nontschew and Krappweis were more perceived as a team, but Krappweis continues to work with Wigald Boning to this day.
Krappweis founded the production company bumm film GmbH last year on RTL Saturday Night , initially to shoot clips himself with Wigald Boning and the author and director Matthias Edlinger , and to deliver them there as soon as they were cut and set to music. He was the director of Stefan Raab's video Schlimmer Finger (co-director: Matthias Edlinger) and was rarely seen in front of the camera until 2004. In 1998 he had a guest appearance with Mark Weigel in the RTL series Das Amt .
Bernd the bread
Krappweis can sometimes be seen together with Bernd dem Brot on KiKA . Bernd das Bread and his friends Briegel the Bush and Chili the Sheep were invented by Norman Cöster , Tommy Krappweis and Erik Haffner . Bernd das Brot has its origins in a joint meal by Cöster and Krappweis in an Italian restaurant, where bread was served in a basket before the meal. According to legend, Krappweis drew his colleague Norman as bread on a receipt pad. This drawing was shown publicly in the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin together with other original exhibits as part of the Heroes exhibition. TV formats with Bernd das Brot für KiKA were / are, among others, Tolle Dinge (2000–2002), Chili TV (2001–2005), Berndivent (2006), Bernd das Brot (2007–2009) and the night loop , in which Bernd as a living test image is subjected to various social trends, which he finds all "crap" according to his character. For KiKA bumm film GmbH also produced the programs Toms Test (1999), Dr. Late summer , Hannes & Micha .
Join The Club
In 2001 Krappweis' company produced the comedy show Join The Club for the TV broadcaster Suntv with clips in the "noble trash" style. The show anticipated the style of user-generated content from YouTube . Often, clips were not scripted, it was only shot based on a basic idea. A kind of “best of” with the “least disturbing sketches” (Krappweis) was shown on Comedy Central Germany . In the meantime, bumm film GmbH is no longer subscribed to Trash TV. 16 permanent employees work in the various departments for editing, sound / synchro / music, script / direction, production or visual effects.
Fairy tale hour
For ProSieben and Rat Pack Filmproduktion Krappweis acted as director, author and headwriter for the ProSieben fairy tale hour . In the episode Mrs. Holle , the bread in the oven is also embodied by Bernd the bread .
Bumm film GmbH provided the editing, audio design and, in the second season, the visual effects for the fairy tale hour. In the slapstick-heavy episode Froschkönig , Krappweis can be seen in front of the camera as the knight Güldenstern . Director and author Erik Haffner from bumm film GmbH was involved in the fairy tale hour. Author and actor Norman Cöster was responsible for several scripts.
ProSieben Funny Movies
For the film series ProSieben Funny Movie , Tommy Krappweis provided several scripts and script revisions. Some of the visual effects, sound design and music came from his company bumm film GmbH. For the Rambo parody Rookie - Fast flat with Axel Stein in the lead role, bumm film GmbH took care of the filming, script / direction (TC) and post-production for RatPack Filmproduktion.
The awning to hell
The 12-part TV series for Tommy Krappweis 'book Das Vorzelt zur Hölle ran on the Austrian television channel Servus TV from April 29, 2012. Krappweis' father Werner Krappweis has a say in both the book and the series. The series was canceled after five successfully broadcast episodes because the station changed conceptually. Thereupon Krappweis decided to release the complete series on DVD at Turbine Medien . In 2016, the first four episodes of the series were shown on the internet on paid content mass-taste TV .
Movie
Mara and the fire bringer
Even when writing the novels, Tommy Krappweis, according to his own statement, had a film adaptation of his fantasy trilogy in mind. Together with the producer Alexander Dannenberg , he was able to win the broadcaster RTL as a partner for the filming of the first book. Krappweis wrote the script himself in collaboration with the dramaturge Sebastian Voss . The author was also the director himself. The film was produced by Christian Becker and his Rat Pack Filmproduktion , with Constantin Film distributing it . The post production was done by Krappweis' company bumm film GmbH and its subsidiary BigHugFX, which was founded in 2013 especially for the film project. The realization of the special effects was supervised by VFX supervisor John Nugent , in whose vita there are genre reproductions such as the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings , The Chronicles of Narnia or The Matrix . The title role of Mara Lorbeer is played by Lilian Prent . Jan Josef Liefers , Esther Schweins and Christoph Maria Herbst can also be seen in other roles . The first excerpts from the film were shown in October 2013 at the fantasy convention Ring * Con . The premiere was on March 29, 2015 in Cologne, and it was released in cinemas on April 2, 2015.
The VFX studio BigHugFX, founded by Krappweis and led by VFX producer Benedikt Laubenthal , produces visual effects for film, television and advertising and is active on the national and international market. The studio's best-known productions include the award-winning comedy series Sketch History , Creed - Rocky's Legacy , the remake of The Magnificent Seven, and the series Pastewka and Lost in Space . Until June 2018, Krappweis managed the company together with Laubenthal, but then left as managing director.
author
Little big Paul
Tommy Krappweis' first work as a book author was the four-part children's book series about a boy who can turn into an adult for about an hour with the help of a magical pocket watch. But only on the outside, because "inside" he remains the ten-year-old Paul. The four volumes were published by Franz Schneider Verlag in 2010 and 2011 .
Mara and the fire bringer
In September 2009, Krappweis' first novel Mara and the Fire Bringer was also published by Franz Schneider Verlag. It is the first volume in a fantasy trilogy about the 14-year-old Mara Lorbeer, who just wants to be normal and inconspicuous, but then learns that she, of all people , is supposed to stop the threatening Götterdämmerung . The book is "a mix of Harry Potter , Da Vinci Code / The Da Vinci Code and Germanic mythology ." In order to be able to present all the facts about the Teutons and their religion up to date with the latest scientific developments, Tommy Krappweis worked on the project with the Scandinavian Rudolf Simek from the University of Bonn , who also wrote the appendix with explanations of names and terms.
Volume II Mara and the Fire Bringer - The Death Mark was published in 2010. The presentation took place in the Museum and Park Varusschlacht in Osnabrücker Land, also known as the Museum and Park Kalkriese , as this museum plays an important role in the book. Other real locations in the trilogy include the Munich Ludwigsbrücke , the forester's house in Mühlthal near Starnberg and the Hermannsdenkmal in Detmold .
Volume III is entitled Mara and the Fire Bringer - Götterdämmerung and closes the trilogy. Release date was October 2011.
At the end of 2018, a completely revised and expanded new edition of the trilogy was published as a limited Extended Collectors Edition by Krappweis. The special edition was supplemented by an extra volume with bonus material on the making of the books and the film, a glossary and a Mara short story.
Krappweis has been working on a sequel to the Mara trilogy since 2017. The working title of the new trilogy is Mara and the Wolf Brothers . According to Tommy Krappweis, the starting point of the story is the fate of the prince's son Thumelicus and the myth of the berserkers .
The awning to hell
At the end of February 2012, Droemer Knaur Verlag published his first autobiographical book Das Vorzelt zur Hölle , which he wrote together with his father Werner Krappweis . It's a humorous description of his childhood camping holidays in the seventies. Father and son take turns, each from his point of view, describing the often bizarre and sometimes life-threatening experiences during wild camping holidays on stony beaches and far from civilization achievements. The adventurous father sees things very differently than the camping-hating son. The book stayed in the Spiegel bestseller list for 18 weeks, with the best placement 21.
Four fists for a black eye
The book Four Fists for a Black Eye , also published by Droemer Knaur, contains the memories of Tommy Krappweis and Heinz Bründl , the founders of the Western amusement park No Name City in Poing near Munich. In it, both report on their time in No Name City , where Krappweis worked for several years as a stunt man and stunt coordinator and appeared in the stage shows. Release date was August 2013.
Ghostsitter
The five-volume fantasy series for children aged 10 and up tells the story of fourteen-year-old Tom, who inherits a ghost train in which all ghosts and monsters are real. As a ghost sitter, he not only has to keep the lovable but chaotic undead secret, but also prevent his opponent Zoracz from stealing the ghost train from him. Volume 1 with the title Ghostsitter : Ghosts inherited appeared in October 2015, Volume 2 Caution! Poltergeist! in May 2016. In November of the same year the third band Hilfe, Zombie-Party! , who was nominated for the German Fantasy Prize in 2017 . Volume 4 Schreck im Spiegelkabinett was published in spring 2017. The last volume for the time being, Tanz der Untoten , was published in April 2018.
Since October 2017, the Ghostsitter volumes have also been published as a radio play series , produced by Amazon Music, Audible and bumm film, which also sets the radio plays to music. The radio play versions are written by Krappweis himself, who also directed all the radio plays and sings the title song together with YouTuber Bina Bianca. He is also involved as a speaker. The cast also includes a. Christoph Maria Herbst , Hugo Egon Balder , Wigald Boning , Kai Taschner , Paulina Rümmelein and Bernhard Hoëcker . The main role "Tom" is spoken by Felix Strüven . The first season comprised volumes 1 and 2, the second season, which was published in spring 2018, and volumes 3 and 4. The fifth and so far last volume was published in early 2019 as season 3. Season 4 was the first sequel to the book series, published only as a radio play, in April 2019. With the release of season 5 at the end of November 2019, the future release in several full-length episodes per year was announced.
In addition to season 5 of the main audio book series, the first spin-off The fantastic cases of Rufus T. Feuerflieg - Kreszenzia is coming , was published on December 27, 2019 , and is one of the Ghostsitter Stories .
The Ghostsitter series has won the LovelyBooks Readers Award several times . Volume 1 won third prize in 2015, volume 4 in 2017 in the “Children's Book” category. In 2017, the radio play also received the Silver Readers Award in the “Audiobook” category.
Athlete child
Sportlerkind is the third autobiographical book and follows on from the work Das Vorzelt zur Hölle . It was published in April 2016 and, like its predecessor, was again written by Tommy Krappweis and his father Werner. In it, both report, from their own point of view and in a humorous way, of the doomed attempts by the sports-loving father to raise the crouching son, who much preferred sitting in his room, reading or playing with Lego, to become a competitive athlete and racing cyclist.
Other works
Tommy Krappweis has been working on a retelling of the legends about the mountain spirit Rübezahl since 2013 . The bumm film filmed a documentary on the subject that was sponsored by the Thuringian State Chancellery .
In May 2017, Piper Verlag published the first book by Bavarian comedian Harry G Unter Deppen. About life with the Isarpreißn and other cattle , of which Krappweis is a co-author.
He is also co-author of the second book by YouTuber Florian Mundt, alias LeFloid . The biography Willkommen im Real Life emerged from a long interview by Krappweis with Mundt and was published by Piper Verlag in 2018.
Radio plays
Since 2017, Krappweis' production company bumm film has also been producing radio plays on behalf of Audible Studios, which are recorded in the in-house recording studio. Among other things, the radio play versions of the dwarf novel series by Markus Heitz , in which Krappweis is also involved as a narrator, and the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch have been created there . Krappweis wrote the radio play versions of his five-volume children's book series Ghostsitter , which appeared in four seasons from 2017 to 2019, and of the children's book Bill Bo und seine Kumpane by Josef Göhlen , which was published under the title Bill Bo und seine Gange 2018. A second season appeared in spring 2019. The speaker ensemble includes u. a. Maddin Schneider as Bill Bo, Michael Kessler , Paulina Rümmelein and Thomas Nicolai . Krappweis took over the direction of both series of radio plays and can also be heard as a narrator in various roles, such as the Zombie Wombie in Ghostsitter and the Hungarian, Heron Wally and Donkey in Bill Bo and his gang . In 2020 Krappweis wrote the comedy radio play JOUR FIXE - Die Startupper with Albert Bozesan and Robert Sladeczek about the fictional start-up company Redando . Anna Jung, Marti Fischer , Arlett Drexler and the co-authors Bozesan and Sladeczek can be heard in the main roles . Here too, Krappweis directed. The first season appeared in the FYEO app from ProSieben .
Live programs
From the readings on Mara and the Fire Bringer , an independent comedy program developed over time with a focus on Nordic and Germanic mythology , the genesis of the Mara trilogy and the Fire Bringer and anecdotes from Tommy Krappweis' unusual résumé. The program is entitled And Jesus said: Do something with rabbits ... and alludes to the pagan remains in today's Easter.
On the basis of long-term cooperation and various joint appearances with the Scandinavian artist Rudolf Simek , who acted as a scientific advisor for the novel trilogy Mara and the Fire Bringer and the film of the same name, the lecture program Fantasy & Science , with the Krappweis and Simek at conventions and literary events , developed appear and tell about their collaboration, Teutons , Nordic mythology and fantasy .
Web formats
In 2016 and 2017, Tommy Krappweis organized live video talks on political, social and pop-cultural topics at irregular intervals. The changing line-up for the long-distance conversation series , in which current political issues were discussed, included Krappweis himself, the comedians Wigald Boning and Bernhard Hoëcker and the journalists Fabian Siegismund and Sebastian Bartoschek . In the Geeksmeet series , he discussed topics of geek and nerd culture with film journalist Stefan Servos and game editor Sven Vössing . All video talks were streamed live on Krappweis' Facebook account and then published on his YouTube channel.
Since the end of 2017, Tommy Krappweis' production company bumm film has been producing the comedy talk format bumm bei Beans for Rocket Beans TV , in which Krappweis and bumm-film colleagues Norman Cöster and David Gromer welcome a prominent guest in every episode. The program is recorded either in the empty swimming pool at bumm film or live in front of an audience at events such as the Role Play Convention and Gamescom . So far, guests have included a. Wigald Boning, Michael Kessler , Arlett Drexler , film composer Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg and Fabian Siegismund.
music
Tommy Krappweis has been playing and singing in the band Harpo Speaks since 1992 !! , a "session band" that improvises together with a pool of up to 14 musicians live on stage.
For the ProSieben fairy tale hour Rotkäppchen , bumm-film's own band recorded the song Far Beyond the Right Path, composed by Krappweis, live in the studio. For this format, Krappweis sang the title song in Karel Gott style , which was designed by Karel Svoboda . For the ProSieben Funny Movie, play me the song and you'll be dead! Tommy Krappweis, together with his brother Nico and the composer Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg, played well-known pop songs in bluegrass versions suitable for westerners and wrote the title track. The St. John Song , sung by Krappweis and only heard on DVD until then, was released as a single in 2013.
In 2003, bumm film GmbH was in the charts for several weeks with the song Tanzt Das Brot . Bernd das Brot made it into the top 40 with this title. The album Rockt Das Brot not only contained Tanzt Das Brot , but also included the protest song Ich Sage Nein , which Bernd das Brot and its inventors at the Grimme Prize Performance performed. Krappweis was involved in almost all of the songs on the album as a composer and wrote the lyrics for most of the songs.
Krappweis is the lyricist of the so-called "Hoppers Hymn", composed by Andreas Lenz von Ungern-Sternberg and Alexander Preu, A real true hero , which was sung by Krappweis, Fabian Siegismund and Nino Kerl in episode 7 of the Hoppers web series . The song has since been recorded in various versions. The acoustic version in the shuffle rhythm was performed by Tommy Krappweis with his band Harpo Speaks !! Performed live at the German Computer Game Prize , Ring * Con 2014 and Gamescom 2014, among others . Krappweis was supported at most of the performances by a group of around 20 cosplayers and fantasy fans. Based on the song, the choir calls itself "Echte Wahre Helden". In 2015 the EP Die Helden EP was released , which contains not only Krappweis's own titles, but also various versions of the song, among others. a. Versions with YouTuber Bina Bianca and the rapper Heartshot. All proceeds from the sale of the EP go to the refugee children's fund of the German Children's Fund . Together with the band Schandmaul and the Babelsberg Film Orchestra , Tommy Krappweis released two versions of the “hero song” on the soundtrack album of his film Mara and the Fire Bringer , one of which is used as the end of the film. He alternates with the singing with the Schandmaul singer Thomas Lindner , with whom he wrote the text of the film version of the song. The soundtrack also contains two other songs recorded by Schandmaul, for which Krappweis and Lindner wrote the lyrics. All four songs have also been released on the re-edition of the Schandmaul album Infinite .
For Gamescom 2016, when Krappweis was the artistic director of the “Cosplay Village” for the first time, he wrote and produced the first official Gamescom song Celebration of the Game , which he sings with Bina Bianca and presented several times at Gamescom. The music video for the song was also shot at Gamescom. The collaboration with Bina Bianca resulted in the musical team Bina & Tommy , which brought out the EP Celebration of the Game , which in addition to various versions of the Gamescom song and the like. a. also contains a self-written song by Bina Bianca.
In 2016, Krappweis, a committed opponent of conspiracy theories , wrote a song about the Dunning Kruger Effect , the Dunning Kruger Blues , which not only gained attention in the German skeptic movement, but also found viral distribution on the Internet. Another song followed in 2019 with #EntdummDich with which he speaks against fake news , racism and anti- vaccination campaigns .
Private life
Tommy Krappweis has a daughter and two step-sons. He lives in Munich with his wife. His first marriage was to the actress Sabine Lorenz .
He is particularly committed to children and young people. He organizes readings at schools and has supported the forest pirate camp of the German Children 's Cancer Foundation, the foundation kids to life and the refugee children's fund of the German Children's Fund with donation campaigns .
He is a member of the Fantastic Authors Network (PAN), which was founded in 2016, and is committed to promoting German fantastic literature and German genre films.
His cinematic role model is Buster Keaton . He is interested in historical topics, especially the Viking Age , is a fan of the Marx Brothers , likes music by The Beatles , Jethro Tull , blues , rock'n'roll and Pink Floyd and reads a.o. a. likes Michael Ende , Terry Pratchett , Stephen R. Donaldson , Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams .
Awards
As a comedian (ensemble member):
- 1996: Golden Lion for RTL Saturday Night (best TV show)
- 1996: Romy for RTL Saturday Night (best program idea)
As an author:
- 2013: Saarland author award of HomBuch in the children's and youth book category for Mara and the fire bringer
- 2015: LovelyBooks reader award (3rd prize) in the children's book category for ghostsitters: ghosts inherited
- 2016: HomBuch Prize in the children's and young adult book category
- 2017: LovelyBooks reader award in silver in the audio book category for Ghostsitter: The complete first season
- 2017: LovelyBooks reader award in bronze in the children's book category for ghostsitter: Schreck im Spiegelkabinett
As a director and producer:
- 2003: Goldener Sparrow for KiKA XL
- 2004: Adolf Grimme Prize for the idea and realization of the character Bernd das Brot
- 2008: Eyes & Ears Award for the realization of the on-air campaign for Camp Rock on the Disney Channel
- 2015: RPC Fantasy Award for Mara and the Fire Bringer (film)
- 2015: New York Festivals Award in Gold for 13th Street Awareness Campaign
- 2015: PromaxBDA Europe Award in gold and silver for 13th Street Awareness Campaign
- 2015: Eyes & Ears Award for Jurassic Park Marathon (3 promo spots) for Syfy
- 2016: PromaxBDA Europe Award in Gold for Jurassic Park Airport for SyFy
Bumm film GmbH was nominated four more times for the Golden Sparrow: For Rockt Das Brot (2005), Feste Fiegen mit Bernd (2006), Ding Sing (2007) and the children's sketch show Disney Channels Comedy Crew (2006). The latter was written and directed by David Gromer and Jochen Donauer. There were two nominations for the Grimme Prize in 2015 for the Cartoon Network search for clues and for Habe die Ehre , a production for BR television .
Web links
- Literature by and about Tommy Krappweis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tommy Krappweis in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Tommy Krappweis in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Tommy Krappweis at filmportal.de
- Tommy Krappweis's channel on YouTube
- Official landing page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimme Prize 2004 to Tommy Krappweis. Grimme Institute, accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ bumm film GmbH. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Tommy and Werner Krappweis: The awning to hell. How I survived my childhood family vacations. Knaur, Munich 2012, p. 16, ISBN 978-3-426-78476-1
- ↑ Press release from Mass Taste TV. (No longer available online.) In: Presseportal Online. June 15, 2016, archived from the original on October 3, 2016 ; accessed on December 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Press booklet Mara and the Fire Bringer . 2015, p. 8 .
- ↑ BigHugFX. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Register announcements. In: Unternehmensregister.de. June 22, 2018, accessed March 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Stefan Holzhauer: Tommy Krappweis' MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER as an unabridged luxury edition. PhantaNews, April 26, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Tommy's wedding, Mara's books and "Bernd, das Brot". Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, January 19, 2017, accessed February 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Shortlist of the nominees. Deutscher Phantastik Preis, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Family radio play Ghostsitter with star cast like Christoph Maria Herbst, Wigald Boning, Tommy Krappweis and Hugo Egon Balder now on Amazon Music. Amazon Newsroom. Press releases, October 31, 2017, accessed on November 12, 2017 .
- ↑ It's haunted again! The entertaining family radio play Ghostsitter with Christoph Maria Herbst, Wigald Boning and Hugo Egon Balder is entering its second round on Amazon Music. Amazon Newsroom. Press releases, March 23, 2018, accessed June 12, 2018 .
- ↑ #GHOSTSITTER is now available in feature length - with several releases per year. Tommy Krappweis. Twitter, November 28, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Ep 1 of 'The Fantastic Cases of Rufus T. Feuerflieg' is ready for you. Tommy Krappweis. Twitter, December 25, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Welcome to real life. My life between friends, fakes and facts. Piper Verlag, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Tom Sprenger: New formats on FYEO: Mystery, Comedy and Contemporary History. In: radioWoche. July 3, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Fantasy & Science. BuchmesseCon, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Bernd das Brot: Tanzt das Brot (single). Official German charts, accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Press release: Tommy Krappweis organizes “Cosplay Village”. In: PhantaNews. August 15, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Tommy Krappweis supports refugee children. In: Zillo Medieval ( Memento from October 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Profile of Tommy Krappweis. Phantastik-Autor-Netzwerk (PAN) eV, accessed on March 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krappweis, Tommy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krappweis, Thomas (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, musician, comedian, producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |