The D-A-CH-DeathList 2024 (page 18)

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The next big miss of our D-A-CH-DeathList by just a few points is German journalist and author Klaus Rainer Röhl, who died on November 30th, just one day shy to his 93rd birthday.

He is best known as founder, owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of "konkret", the most influential magazine on the German political left from the 1960s to the early 1970s. He has since become critical of communism and leftist tendencies.

For me personally he is best known as the husband of German journalist Ulrike Meinhof before her descent to left-wing terrorism (Rote Armee Fraktion).

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/nachruf-auf-den-publizisten-klaus-rainer-roehl-17663427/klaus-rainer-roehl-17663426.html

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We are on double figures!!!

Horst Eckel, German football player and world champion of 1954, has died at age 89.

He was the last surviving player from the 1954 World Cup final and the entire German World Cup squad.

https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/letzter-fussball-weltmeister-von-1954-horst-eckel-ist-tot-a-67813e51-d68d-4106-a839-defb4da99c13

[frleon 138]

Finally, my number five.

[gcreptile 10,963]

German comedian Mirko Nontschew suddenly dead at 52:

https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/mirco-nontschew-tot-lol-star-stirbt-im-alter-von-52-jahren-78439272.bildMobile.html

 

Was part of the original crew of the German version of Saturday Night Live. Actually a formative show in the 90s and a genuinely funny german show.

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Ooops we* did it again: One fine list with 50 German, Austrian or Swiss people, likely to die in 2022!

 

*we are: gcreptile, Prophet, TomTomTelekom, WEP and Book.

 

Our first attempt in 2021 was well received by forum members and also the list was successful in itself: 10 hits, double figues, not so bad at all– that's why we wanted to try a second time.

The result will be shown in the next post. Some picks are famous outside the D-A-CH-states, some picks I had to research by myself but hey – they will all receive an official germanspeaking obituary. Keep 'em coming!

 

 

Viel Erfolg, D-A-CH-Liste!!!

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UNSERE D-A-CH-LISTE 2022:        (7/49)

 

rank/previous year/pick

01. (04) Benedict XVI, German Pope Emeritus, *16.04.1927 - 31.12.2022  (95)

02. (---) Fritz Wepper, German actor, *17.08.1941

03. (34) Rolf Schimpf, German actor, *14.11.1924

04. (16) Uwe Seeler, German football player, *05.11.1936 - 21.07.2022   (85)

05. (40) Arthur Cohn, Swiss film producer and multiple Oscar winner, *04.02.1927

06. (09) Traute Lafrenz-Page, German physician, member of resistance group “White Rose”, *03.05.1919

07. (---) Hardy Krüger, German actor, *12.04.1928 - 19.01.2022 (93)

08. (23) Henry Kissinger, German-American politician and diplomat, *27.05.1923

09. (10) Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress, *11.10.1929

10. (01) Rainer Langhans, German writer, filmmaker and activist, *19.06.1940

11. (12) Tony Marshall, German Schlager and opera singer, *03.02.1938

12. (---) Doris Stockhausen, German music pedagogue and former wife of Karlheinz Stockhausen, *28.02.1924

13. (---) Mario Adorf, German-Austrian actor, *08.09.1930

14. (03) Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor, *17.12.1930

15. (---) Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, author and talk show host, *04.06.1928

16. (---) Felicitas zu Salm-Horstmar, Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Royal, *31.03.1920

17. (49) Trude Unruh, German politician (several parties) and author, *07.03.1925 - 30.11.2021  (96)

18. (---) Oscar Schneider, German politician (CSU), 03.06.1927

19. (07) Fritz Pleitgen, German television journalist and broadcast director, *21.03.1938 - 15.09.2022 (84)

20. (---) Peter Weck, Austrian film director and actor, *12.08.1930

21. (21) Ursula Haverbeck, German author, Holocaust denier, *09.11.1928

22. (25) Michael Schumacher, German racing driver, *03.01.1969

23. (---) Helma Kissner, German Nazi criminal, *23.12.1923

24. (41) Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Austrian photographer and jet set expert, *09.12.1919

25. (---) Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist and poet, *05.01.1931

26. (---) Julia Dingwort-Nusseck, German president of Landeszentralbank Lower Saxony, *06.10.1921

27. (---) Johanna Quaas, German gymnast, oldest gymnast in the world, *20.11.1925

28. (13) Martin Walser, German writer, *24.03.1927

29. (05) Ingrid van Bergen, German actress, *15.06.1931

30. (31) Egidius Braun, German president of the DFB, *27.02.1925 - 16.03.2022   (97)

31. (---) Lothar Blumhagen, German actor and voice actor, *16.07.1927

32. (---) René Weller, German boxer, *21.11.1953

33. (18) Janosch, German children's book author and illustrator, *11.03.1931

34. (---) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor, *17.07.1925

35. (11) Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress, *16.03.1929

36. (14) Freddy Quinn, Austrian Schlager singer, *27.09.1931

37. (---) Käthe Menzel-Jordan, German architect and perservationist, *07.09.1916

38. (---) Irmgard Furchner, German Nazi-concentration-camp-secretary, *29.05.1925

39. (---) Sepp Blatter, Swiss football administrator and president of the FIFA, *10.03.1936

40. (15) Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician (SPD), Mayor of Hamburg, *23.06.1928

41. (20) Rolf Eden, German businessman, night club owner and playboy, *06.02.1930 - 11.08.2022  (92)

42. (---) Marianne von Weizsäcker, German former First Lady, *17.05.1932

43. (---) Kiu Eckstein, German journalist and film maker, *13.05.1927

44. (---) Richard Lugner, Austrian real estate entrepreneur and society figure, *11.10.1932

45. (---) Werner Michael Blumenthal, German-American economist and political advisor, *03.01.1926

46. (---) Franz-Josef Antwerpes, German politician (SPD), *27.11.1934

47. (---) Eckart Dux, German film and voice actor, *19.12.1926

48. (---) Hugo Broch, German WW II Luftwaffe flight ace, *06.01.1922

49. (---) Edith Kwoizalla, German senior home resident and first person to be vaccinated against Covid-19, *14.05.1919

50. (---) Margot Eskens, German Schlager singer, *12.08.1936 - 29.07.2022  (85)

[WEP 888]

The designer Karl Clauss Dietel has died aged 87 on January 2nd. The form and product designer was born in Reinholdshain near Glauchau in 1934 and designed numerous GDR products.

Dieter preferred to be known as "Formgestalter" ("Shaper") instead of "designer. Some of his creations were the Moped Simson S50, the diamond wheels, the typewriter "Erika" or the radio RK5.

 

https://www.mdr.de/kultur/ausstellungen/karl-clauss-dietel-produktdesigner-gestorben-glauchau-100.html

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These are the drop-outs from the 2021 D-A-CH-DeathList. They didn`t qualify for 2022 because they received few votes:

 

08. Jürgen Habermas

19. Hans Modrow

26. Friedrich Nowottny

28. Helmut Berger

30. Nino de Angelo

32. Täve Schur

33. Jürgen Schneider

36. Ralf Wolter

37. Margit Carstensen

38. Maria Riva

39. Heide Simonis

42. Margret Homeyer 17.01.2018*

43. Gerhard Richter

44. Gunther von Hagens

45. Franz Josef Wagner

46. Werner Herzog

48. Arnulf Rainer

 

*From Wikipedia, 27.11.2021 update: Margret Homeyer's death was not made public through press reports. The date of death was found in November 2021 through research by Wikipedians, including in contact with Homeyer's niece.

[WEP 888]

Holocaust witness and survivor Trude Simonsohn has died aged 100.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tagesschau.de/inland/trude-simonsohn-101~amp.html

[WEP 888]

That's a tragic one:

Cristian Ghilli, two-time junior world champion in clay pigeon shooting, has now shot himself in a hunting accident.

19-year-old Ghili was one of the most talented youngsters in his sports. On his hunting vaccation with friends in Pisa province, he had bent down to pick up new cartridges and shot himself in the abdomen.

 

https://www.n-tv.de/sport/Junioren-Weltmeister-erschiesst-sich-selbst-article23046124.html

[WEP 888]

Another original has died:

Stefan Öhlschläger, who was something like a paradise bird on Munichs steet together with his twin brother Christian, has died aged 73.

 

The two men wore stilettos, hot pants and other clothes for women in public, making headlines as "Schrillinge" or enfant terribles of the queer scene.

 

https://m.bild.de/regional/muenchen/muenchen-aktuell/muenchen-gebrueder-oehlschlaeger-einer-der-schrillinge-ist-verstorben-78777176.bildMobile.html###wt_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&wt_t=1641831649654

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We have Janosch on our list, but another German children's author and illustrator has died: Alfons "Ali" Mitgutsch, known as the father of the so called "Wimmelbilder"-books.

He died from pneumonia at age 86.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/ali-mitgutsch-gestorben-101.html

 

 

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Herman Rechberger, composer, born Linz, Austria, 1947, Finnish citizen since 1970, died in Greece 2022, aged 74.

 

[WEP 888]

Alfred Gager, longtime football player for Austria Vinna has died one month shy to his 80th birthday.

 

https://fk-austria.at/news/austria-wien-trauert-um-alfred-gager

[WEP 888]

Maybe the first bigger miss for the D-A-CH-List:

 

Herbert Achternbusch, talented writer, film director and painter, has died aged 83: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/herbert-achternbusch-tot-1.5505860

He began as a publisher at Suhrkamp in the 1960s before he atarted writing himself. During the 1970s, Achternbusch began to work as director with the film "Das Kind ist tot" ("The child is dead").
Achternbusch made more than 30 films, wrote more than 25 books and nearly the same number of plays and began to draw and paint in the 1990s. He received several awrdas and was widely respected, even by the Bavarian government, who was always critzised by him.

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31 minutes ago, WEP said:

Maybe the first bigger miss for the D-A-CH-List:

Not really a miss since he wasn't even a choice for the list. That could rather be the miss

[WEP 888]

10 minutes ago, Book said:

Not really a miss since he wasn't even a choice for the list. That could rather be the miss

Yes, I agree, but nor was Siegfried Fischbacher in 2021. And he was a face-pal-worthy miss.

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23 minutes ago, WEP said:

Yes, I agree, but nor was Siegfried Fischbacher in 2021. And he was a face-pal-worthy miss.

Yes, but he wasn't an official choice before either.

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We do have our first hit:

German actor Hardy Krüger has died at the age of 93 

https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/hardy-krueger-ist-tot--tod-mit-93-jahren-31554290.html

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28 minutes ago, Book said:

We do have our first hit:

German actor Hardy Krüger has died at the age of 93 

https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/hardy-krueger-ist-tot--tod-mit-93-jahren-31554290.html

A german actor with a DDP QO for once:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/17382545/hardy-kruger-dead-california-bridge-too-far/

[WEP 888]

Emil Mangelsdoff, celebrated jazz musician from Frankfurt, has died aged 96.

 

https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/frankfurter-jazzlegende-emil-mangelsdorff-ist-tot,emil-mangelsdorff-gestorben-100.html

 

One from our longlist.

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On 10/01/2022 at 00:24, WEP said:

That's a tragic one:

Cristian Ghilli, two-time junior world champion in clay pigeon shooting, has now shot himself in a hunting accident.

19-year-old Ghili was one of the most talented youngsters in his sports. On his hunting vaccation with friends in Pisa province, he had bent down to pick up new cartridges and shot himself in the abdomen.

 

https://www.n-tv.de/sport/Junioren-Weltmeister-erschiesst-sich-selbst-article23046124.html

One of the most talented youngsters in his sport? Not very talented IMHO. 

[WEP 888]

10 hours ago, TheCemetaryMan said:

One of the most talented youngsters in his sport? Not very talented IMHO. 

Well, he seems to have hit the mark. Not everyone manages to shoot themselves that way.

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

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5 hours ago, N. Fritz said:

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

Jeez, how old was he?