The younger version of Professor Taft is played by
Ilja Richter. He was a big fan of Theo Lingen, who played the old Taft, and later did many parodies of him. He impersonated him several times in
Disco (1971) and later appeared with the real Theo Lingen and other Lingen impersonators in the first episode of
Am laufenden Band (1974) in
Épisode #1.1 (1974). He later wrote the lyrics for the musical play about his life (written by Tilmann von Blomberg) called "Komiker aus Versehen" (Comedian by mistake), which was performed from 2011-2014 at the "Komödie im Marquardt" in Stuttgart.
