Background
Since mid-2010, he is in a relationship with Isabella "Bella" Recke, the daughter of Helmut von Finck.
Since mid-2010, he is in a relationship with Isabella "Bella" Recke, the daughter of Helmut von Finck.
He completed his acting training at the Etage in Berlin and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Los Angeles
After his graduation, he lived for three years in different countries and earned his living by doing odd jobs. He has lived in Africa and in Southern Europe and thus, he speaks fluent German, English, Spanish, Italian and French. From 1999, he also took private acting lessons at the Summer Academy Theater with Herbert Fischer The pair were charged with trespassing and vandalism due to a paint bomb attack during a press conference.
In retrospect, however, they had to pay only the property damage amounting to 10,000 €.
Together with actor Rhon Diels, he opened in 2006, the French Bar / Restaurant Louisiana Raclette in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. His restaurant was destroyed by fire in October 2010.
According to the insurance reporrt, the trigger was a faulty cable. Through the support of friends and his family, he could reopen his restaurant in November 2010.
Kusmagk started his career as a television host for the German sports channel DSF. In spring of 2002, he was cast in a contract role on the soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.
He first appeared on 11 April 2002. After his one-year contract came to an end, Kusmagk left the show, making his last on-screen appearance on 23 July 2003. Since then he stated several times that he"d return to the show if asked.
After leaving Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, Kusmagk was seen in the short-running sitcom Das Büro in the role of Lars Vollmer.
In the following year he and his then-wife joined the Sat.1 morning show Frühstücksfernsehen. The couple hosted the show until their separation in 2005.
He then worked on various productions for VOX and ProSieben. In 2008, Kusmagk took a guest role as eccentric fashion designer Niki di Lorenzo in Verbotene Liebe, where he shared most scenes with Miriam Lahnstein and Sina-Valeska Jung.
He would be seen in other guest-starring roles in SOKO Leipzig in 2012 and Alarm für Cobra 11 in 2013.
Kusmagk became a competitor of the fifth season of. The fifth season aired from 14 January to 29 January 2011. At the time, a potential short-term return to Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten was widely rumored.
With his role Ben still having three siblings on the show.
