At 17 July 1952 in Baltimore/Maryland the joy of the Hasselhoffs was very big, because
little David got born. His mother Dolores and his father Joe were proud parents of four
beautiful girls.
So their fortune was perfect with the birth of David. Finally
they had a son, because they had hoped so long to get a son. David's
four sisters Diana, Lisa, Jean and Joyce
looked very carefully to their little brother 24 hours a day.
"My God, my four sisters loved me and were totally crazy about
me as I was a little boy!", says David with a smile in his face.
David's father Joe Hasselhoff was manager in a security enterprise and got well paid. His mother took care of the five kids. The Hasselhoffs come primal from Germany, but the family went to America a long time ago, to see what was real about the story of the "American Dream". But that David this dream could make come true and even go back to Germany as a star did never someone believe of them.
In the middle of this big family grew David up. He knew everytime that there was someone who took care of him. But he learned to test what he was thinking and so he got many attention, which he could change into something positive. David was never a little selfish kid, which wanted to be in the middle of everyone. He liked it more, to be alone and to observe everything to make his own thoughts about it. His father described him as very quiet and shy kid. It happened very peculiar, that he was going out of himself. But his parents remember that as David was seven he came so enthusiastic about the play "Rumpelstilzchen" back home. He had only that fairy-tale in mind and he always said that he wanted to get the role as the hero of the fairy-tale sometimes. Everytime when the Hasselhoffs had visitors, little David showed them some little things to entertain them. While he was doing that he really was happy like never else!
He was like a changed kid as he played the role. At the beginning that there was a public, he changed himself from a shy kid to a magic little prince, who battles with all he had for the princess. He brought the public with his grimaces and funs to laugh. On this way he could dig his other things that were on his mind. For him it was a sure thing that he would do something with acting or singing in his future.
His parents had pleasure to see that David had a new interesting thing found in his live. David didn't stop to speak about his new interests until his parents got him into an theater school. David was there also the most time of his spare time. With a lot of ambition he acted his first role. In the same year he had his theater debut in the musical "Peter Pan" and there he showed everyone what a beautiful voice he has. His parents were very proud of their son. After the play David was sure that that was what he's gonna do in his future.
After High school he made his way to the rooms of the theater group, were he stayed. He played every role he could get. One time he even stood in a typical vesture from Bayern (Germany). At the beginning David was very stark and didn't move himself that much. But he had a way to understand everything very fast, and that convinced his teachers a lot. They were sure that he could make it in the future!
David says about himself, that he was at that time very small and he looked very funny and tall. At a play he was so uppish like nowhere else. David could need this uppishity very good. Because of the profession of his father the Hasselhoffs had to move very often so he needed to get new friends.
Acting helped David over so many things and gave him at every new school the possibility to establish himself. The most important thing for him was to get a member of the theater group at his school. Everytime he got the star of the theater group in a very short time, because of his big ambition and his talent. Maybe it was because of this time that David got such an iron will and a very big optimism.
As David was 16 and just visited the Lyons Township High school in Illinois, he fell in love with a girl called Sandy Shirley. David was the swarm of the school, she says. Every girl wanted to have a date with him and because David didn't make the first step she did and invited him. For months they were indissoluble. But then his career became to David more important than girls. In the age of "sweet" 17 he reached his target. He came into the Troupe Of American College Players, a junction of the best High school-actors (actresses) from the USA!