A German writer, actor, businessman, and media personality, born in Darmstadt, Germany. During World War II, he lived in Rudach, Bavaria, where he attended primary school and then secondary school in the town of Coburg in Bavaria, and finally graduated from the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium, in Darmstadt. After training as a journalist, he worked in the local press for several newspapers in the cities of Darmstadt, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, and Dusseldorf. Then he became editor-in-chief of the weekly Fox News Magazine and was a member of the state parliament Bavaria, and he also participated in various cinematic works.