N. Fritz

Love Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection is an awesome film) but I've always gotten her confused with Eileen Brennan.

Jan 22

Austrian authors dropping like flies: Ilse Helbich, who published her last novel shortly before her 100th birthday last fall: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3242370/ And Alfred Komarek, author of the Polt series, among others: https://noe.orf.at/stories/3242448/

I went with Brokaw. But have any deathlisters run the list through ChatGPT to assist with their picks for the next death?

Wikipedia for one...

And some obvious misses for DL!

This makes me incredibly sad...

May I direct everyone's attention to this podcast episode from You're Wrong About... https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883952-yoko-ono-broke-up-the-beatles

Boris "Yellow" Pfeiffer, member of the medieval German band In Extremo. Evidently died at a Covid-Protest.

Not so much about the picks, but the first two hits of 2022 have brilliant tag lines! Ashes to ashes, Durst to dust Poitier not coming to dinner

DeathList press! https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/sick-deathlist-predicts-queen-die-25772887

Zither virtuoso Cornelia Mayer (edit: can't find independent confirmation... can anyone else?)

Cartoonist Martin Perscheid, of cancer

The funeral of Friederike Mayröcker was public and I attended it. I was unfamiliar with her work, but am working on a project regarding Vienna's Central Cemetery and considered it research . Most surprising was the choice of music: instead of hymns, the songs that were played included Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" She is buried with her partner, Ernst Jandl. They lived in the same apartment complex but with two separate apartments... I think we can learn a lot from this!

Austrian journalist Hugo Portisch dead. Anyone have him on their list?