When he was about one year old , he moved to Bucharest due to his parents ' work ( his father was a journalist and his mother worked first for a newspaper and later in television ) , but when their home was damaged in the 1977 earthquake , he returned to the Banat region where he stayed for 4 years at his grandparents ' home . Then he went back to Bucharest to attend the German Lyceum . After graduation , he failed the university entrance examination to study foreign languages in Bucharest , so he worked for a while as a translator in Bucharest and then as an actor at the German Theater in Timişoara . In 1988 , he emigrated with his family to Germany
1977 earthquake
1977 Vrancea earthquake
Hanno Höfer