Career
He has been performing roles in theatre, films and television since 1965. Karpa received his acting training in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He performed in theatres in, among others, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin, Dresden and Bad Segeberg.
On television he was particularly well-known between 1996 and 2005 in the role of Staff Nurse Brenneke (Oberpfleger Brenneke) in the series Alphateam - Die Lebensretter im OP. He had his cinematic debut in 1965 in Berlin um die Ecke.
In 2007 in Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex he played the role of the police chief
