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Peter Kraus
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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. In 1969, Kraus married Ingrid, a model. She brought her daughter Gaby into the marriage, whom Kraus later adopted. A few years later, the couple had a son together. Gaby passed away from breast cancer in her late thirties. When the German record industry discovered that rock ’n’ roll could also sell well with German lyrics, they marketed Kraus as an Elvis-style performer. Along with his colleague Ted Herold, Kraus quickly became one of the most popular German-language rock singers and teenage idols; his lanky, relaxed demeanour resonated with young audiences. In the first four years after his debut, Kraus released 36 hit songs and sold over 12 million records. Kraus's first record release was a German version of Little Richard's Tutti Frutti in late 1956. In mid-1957, his first charting hit, Susi Rock, reached number 8 in the charts. From then until 1964, Kraus regularly appeared in the German charts. In 1958, he recorded Wenn Teenager träumen, Hula Baby, a
