Thomas Gottschalk: Thomas Gottschalk. Actor: Zookeeper. The family had previously fled Upper Silesia and settled in Kulmbach in Franconia. Gottschalk became an altar boy in the town parish church here. After completing school with a high school diploma at the Humanistic High School in Kulmbach, he studied German and history to become a primary and secondary school teacher in Munich. From 1971 Gottschalk worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk. As a...
