Robin Krakowski was born in Tübingen, Germany, in 1988. At the age of seven, he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he attended elementary school for four years. At 17, he lived in Mexico City for four years, where he graduated from high school. From 2003-2006 he was a member of the Theater Jugend Club at the Landestheater Tübingen. In the winter semester of 2010, he began his acting studies at the University of Music and Theatre „Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy“ Leipzig. He has been a member of the acting studio at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin since 2012.