Biography
Hans Hass Jr.
Real name: Hans Hass
Effective period / Period of releases: 1965 - 1974
Austrian actor, voice actor, schlager singer and later funsport developer, born 3 September 1946 in Salzburg, Austria and died by suicide 28 June 2009 in Munich, Germany. He was the son of the Austrian diving pioneer Hans Hass and actress Hannelore Schroth. He launched a singer career in the 1960s, played roles in theatres and movies, and wrote soundtrack music for some of the documentary films of his father. After his schlager career failed in the mid 70s he moved to Ibiza, where he got a new interest in yoga and drugs. In the mid 1990s he recorded a series of ambient music albums for higher consciousness. In the late 1990s he quit music again and began to develop funsport ideas.