[3] After his high school year in Visalia, California, where Schropp gained his first acting experience, he played at the American theater in Giessen.

In addition, he also worked as a small actor, extras and in advertising and began training as a vocalist and speaker at the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt.

After a musical workshop in Hamburg, he studied at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the United Kingdom for two and a half years.

He received his first major role in the ARD evening series Sternenfänger, in which he played together with Nora Tschirner, Oliver Pocher and Florentine Lahme.

In 2012 he donated his profits from the TV show Promi-Kocharena to the organization and also supported it in 2014 by hosting the preview of the musical Das Wunder von Bern.