N. Fritz

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?

I'd like to be remembered as the person who saved the discipline "classics" from cancel culture by developing an interdisciplinary "introduction to Humanities" course based on the letters of Pliny the Younger.

damn... I went to high school with him. He was a year below me. Damn...

Austria's numbers are also going up... presumably because in order to get certain services (like getting your hair cut) you have to have a 48 hour Covid test. More people are getting tested, so more cases are being caught. But a further consequence is that the people who test negative are allegedly going out to party like it's 1999 and getting infected that way... at least they look good doing it!

how can it not be Prince Philip? He's been in hospital for weeks now and nary a word about how he's doing after his heart procedure!

Fixed

Alfred Nagl, Brigadier and oldest resident of Burgenland (105) Pictures of his elaborate military funeral can be found by searching his name and "Zapfenstreich" His Festschrift is still available via a major online store

That's what the link in the former post was meant to point out.

Swiss sociologist and artist Urs Jaeggi

Probably a false alarm triggered by Robert Barker's death in Peoria. Date of birth similar

Arik Brauer dead at 92 https://www.vienna.at/wiener-kuenstler-arik-brauer-starb-mit-92-jahren/6875177/amp

Historian Timothy Snyder thinks that Trump will be forced to live outside of the US to avoid the consequences of his sketchy dealings. (Ca. 34 min) https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/13/capitol_insurrection_historian_timothy_snyder