Born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Krämer studied German language and literature and gained his first stage experience at the student theatre in Freiburg im Breisgau.
The productions here were Uncle Vanya (1973), Miss Julie (1974), Goldoni's Le baruffe chiozzotte (1974), Gombrowicz' Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (1974) and Büchner's Woyzeck (1974).
[1] He staged Le baruffe chiozzotte several times in 1977, Sławomir Mrożek's Emigranten[2] (1975), Canetti's Hochzeit (1976), Schiller's Mary Stuart (1977), Thomas Bernhard's A Feast for Boris (1977) and Ödön von Horváth's Glaube Liebe Hoffnung [de] (1978).
[1] Here he directed the performances of Philip Magdalanys Section Nine (1979), August Strindberg's The Dance of Death (1980, with Gisela Stein), the world premiere of Tankred Dorst's Die Villa [de] (1980), Wedekind's Lulu (1981), Schiller's Mary Stuart (1982), Seneca's Oedipus (1982), the world premiere of Friederike Roths Ritt auf die Wartburg[3] (1982) and Chekhov's The Seagull (1982).
(1992, with Ingrid Andree), Heiner Müller's Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome[7] (1993), Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (1994), Goethe's Faust I (1997) and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1998).