Konrad Krauss is a German actor and well known for his role as family patriarch Arno Brandner

Arno Brandner

Arno Brandner is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character is portrayed since the show's debut on January 2, 1995 by actor Konrad Krauss.-Background:...

 on the soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Verbotene Liebe

Verbotene Liebe

Verbotene Liebe , often abbreviated to VL, is a Rose d'Or Award-winning German television soap opera. The show was created by Reg Watson and first broadcast on Das Erste on 2 January 1995...

 (Forbidden Love).

Krauss studied drama and music on the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.Studies include various music types from church music...

. In 1960, he played angel Raphael in a Faust

Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...

screening. Konrad was seen in various plays and had many guest appearances in television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

. His life changed when he joined Verbotene Liebe in 1995.

In 2006, his friend and actor fellow Uwe Friedrichsen

Uwe Friedrichsen

Uwe Friedrichsen is a German television actor.-External links:*...

 made a guest appearance to give Arno new optimism.

External links

• German IMdB entry

(English IMdB entry