25 Facts About Rainhard Fendrich

Rainhard Jurgen Fendrich was born on 27 February 1955 and is an Austrian singer, composer, entertainer, and actor.

Rainhard Fendrich is one of the most successful Austropop musicians, and his songs are written in Viennese German.

Rainhard Fendrich is very popular in Austria and in Bavaria, but less so in other German-speaking countries and regions.

Rainhard Fendrich's father was a mechanical engineer, his mother a model.

Rainhard Fendrich has a brother, Harald Fendrich, who is six years younger than him and a musician who played the bass guitar in his band and is part of WIR4.

At the age of ten, Rainhard Fendrich was sent to a Catholic boarding school, where he lived until the age of 17.

Rainhard Fendrich dropped out of law school in order to finance acting and singing lessons by working various jobs.

Rainhard Fendrich appeared at the Theater an der Wien from 1980 and played Judas in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar there in 1982.

At that time Rainhard Fendrich was already celebrated as a shooting star of Austropop.

In 1983 Rainhard Fendrich presented his first compilation called A winzig klaner Tropfen Zeit.

Rainhard Fendrich achieved his next success in 1983 with Auf und davon.

Rainhard Fendrich wrote the song in five minutes, it was inspired by an article in Brigitte magazine.

Rainhard Fendrich took over as host of the ARD program Herzblatt in 1993 after Rudi Carrell, which he presented on German television until 1997.

Along the way, Rainhard Fendrich recorded the album Bruder, which managed to place in Germany after a long time.

The reason for this was that Rainhard Fendrich slowly turned away from the Viennese dialect with this album.

Rainhard Fendrich made his comeback with the album Blond.

In 1997, Rainhard Fendrich initiated a benefit concert for the homeless, which was intended as a one-off event, at which he performed together with Wolfgang Ambros and Georg Danzer.

Also in 1997, Rainhard Fendrich had success as a film actor in the lead role of Frohlich geschieden alongside Christina Plate and Helmut Fischer.

Rainhard Fendrich received the Austrian Golden Romy award for most popular presenter in TV entertainment three times.

Rainhard Fendrich hosted the game show Deal or No Deal in 2005.

Rainhard Fendrich has appeared in numerous Austrian and German movies.

The concert on Donauinselfest which Rainhard Fendrich gave "instead and for Georg Danzer" who a few weeks before the event had to refuse because of his rapidly progressing disease, attracted 200.000 fans on 23 June 2007.

Rainhard Fendrich was married to Andrea Sator from 1984 to 2003, with whom he has two sons.

When Rainhard Fendrich was found to have bought cocaine in early April 2006 in the course of police surveillance of a dealer ring, he confessed and claimed to have been using it for 15 years.

On 4 December 2010 Rainhard Fendrich married his long-time girlfriend Ina Nadine Wagler in Berlin.