Trivia

1954 German youth champion of pole-vault.

He is an alumnus of the University of Wyoming. He went to the school on a track scholarship.

Arthur Brauss was a German actor and voice actor. Perhaps best known for his work in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.

In his youth he was a talented pole vaulter and became German youth champion in Ludwigsburg in 1954 with a jump of 3.60 m.

In 2014, Arthur Brauss largely withdrew from German television and worked primarily in the theater.

In 2009 he took on the role of Götz von Berlichingen at the Castle Festival in Jagsthausen.

He became in Germany known nationwide as police officer Richard Block in Jürgen Roland's television series Großstadtrevier.

After completing a commercial apprenticeship at a construction equipment factory, Brauss received a scholarship to the University of Wyoming (United States) and studied mathematics and economics there. It was at the student theater there that he discovered his interest in acting.

In 1960, he returned from the USA to Germany and initially worked for Infratest and Radio Free Europe.

In 1963 he made his cinema debut in the film Verspätung in Marienborn (under the name "Art Brauss"), directed by Rolf Hädrich.