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

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Germn film director and one of most well known screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase died at 91 years:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/er-wurde-91-jahre-alt-filmlegende-wolfgang-kohlhaase-gestorben-81524076.bild.html

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2 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Germn film director and one of most well known screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase died at 91 years:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/er-wurde-91-jahre-alt-filmlegende-wolfgang-kohlhaase-gestorben-81524076.bild.html

 Another one from our long list without getting the main list 

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Boris Meyn, author of several crime novels, dead at 61:

 

https://www.t-online.de/region/hamburg/id_100061374/hamburger-krimi-autor-boris-meyn-mit-61-jahren-gestorben.html

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German Football Manager and player Jürgen Sundermann died at 82 years:

https://www.vfb.de/de/vfb/aktuell/neues/club/2022/trauer-um-juergen-sundermann/

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German actor Günter Lamprecht has died at the age of 92.

Damn, he was scheduled for my German theme team next year...

https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/guenter-lamprecht-mit-92-gestorben-18369542.html

 

Edit: I think he is best known for working with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for his role in Das Boot (directed by Wolfgang Petersen who died on August 12, 2022) and playing in several Tatort episodes.

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The USA's most favourite German in the 60s and 70s, actress Elke Sommer, sold her Hollywood mansion in March:

https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/actors/elke-sommer-house-holmby-hills-1203462922/

 

Back in Bavaria, she almost had her legs amputated because their blood circulation was pretty much completely gone:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/elke-sommer-ihr-drohte-die-bein-amputation-80679498.bild.html

(The Bild article also has a picture of Franz Beckenbauer who kind of looks worse than she does, even though he's five years younger. In fact, I think he's looking slightly sick of cancer.)

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This is a real miss for our list, because our last year's No. 36, actor Ralf Wolter, has died at age 95.

He appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor and is best known for his portrayal of Sam Hawkins in the Karl May films.

https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/regional/bayern/medien--schauspieler-ralf-wolter-gestorben-32815342.html

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43 minutes ago, Book said:

This is a real miss for our list, because our last year's No. 36, actor Ralf Wolter, has died at age 95.

He appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor and is best known for his portrayal of Sam Hawkins in the Karl May films.

https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/regional/bayern/medien--schauspieler-ralf-wolter-gestorben-32815342.html

At least the people of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein can sleep soundly tonight knowing he won't be driving along their street anymore.
 

 

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Concert pianist Michael Ponti, known for his recordings of great composers, died at 84 years: He retired after a stroke left his right hand and arm immobile.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/pianist-michael-ponti-gestorben,TKbGSVQ

He retired after a stroke left his right hand and arm immobile.

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Austrian Billionaire and richest man Dietrich Mateschitz died at 78 years:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/red-bull-gruender-dietrich-mateschitz-ist-tot-81466862.bild.html

He was founder and owner of Red Bull.

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Gee, I took a Red Bull today, it's been a long time since I took it, I've heard about this information, I'm sorry a lot

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Hanneli Goslar, a nurse known for being a close friend of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, died at 93 years:

https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-720903

She was known to have secretly given food and clothing to Frank during their stay at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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German three-Michelin star Chef Heinz Winkler died at 73 years:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/heinz-winkler-tot-sternekoch-stirbt-nach-zusammenbruch-81770818.bild.html

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Marlene Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, is serving as an executive producer for the new TV series based on her book about her mother:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/diane-kruger-marlene-dietrich-tv-show-1235230767/

 

But how much of a role is it anyway?

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Ronald "Blacky" Miehling has died at age 72:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/ronald-miehling-ehemaliger-drogenboss-aus-hamburg-ist-tot-a-20d10e55-3a94-4a62-b64d-c4cfcdfafcbd

 

He was Germany's biggest drug dealer for some time and had accumulated almost 30 years in prison.

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Civil rights activist in Communist East Germany, Werner Schulz has died at 72 after collapsing at a political event:

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/werner-schulz-frueherer-ddr-buergerrechtler-ist-tot-a-0487efbb-b7cb-44dc-97ff-a137173b7654

 

He later became an MEP for the Greens.

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Sebastian Böhm, celebrity hairstylist responsible for the girly hairstyle of German boy band Tokio Hotel, has died of acute leukaemia at the age of 36!

 

 

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100080778/sebastian-boehm-ist-tot-promifriseur-stirbt-im-alter-von-36-jahren.html

 

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Martin Walser looks very frail nowadays.

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15 minutes ago, drol said:

Martin Walser looks very frail nowadays.

A spot on the next D-A-CH-List is guaranteed!

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The great literary writer and public intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger has died at 93:

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/hans-magnus-enzensberger-ist-tot-a-daa5c5ec-3b26-47a1-ad68-133c3d4761b5

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36 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

The great literary writer and public intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger has died at 93:

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/hans-magnus-enzensberger-ist-tot-a-daa5c5ec-3b26-47a1-ad68-133c3d4761b5

 

Very sad

I mean, very sad that he wasn't on our list this year

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25 minutes ago, Book said:

 

Very sad

I mean, very sad that he wasn't on our list this year

And he would have been next year. Unfortunately, I picked up on his silence too late, roughly mid-year. It's always suspicious when the "public intellectuals" stop commenting on everything (which is why Martin Walser and Jürgen Habermas are not yet great candidates, though I guess at their age, anything is possible - and some names you dont want to miss.).

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9 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

And he would have been next year. 

This 

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Franz Vranitzky, former chancellor of Austria, NOT dead at 85, but a parliamentary committee still has a silent minute after FAKE NEWS:

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/franz-vranitzky-oesterreichischer-parlamentsausschuss-haelt-trauermininute-fuer-noch-lebenden-ex-kanzler-ab-a-d5068f5f-9370-4451-9f93-5378a62d3824

 

The article blames "the account of an Italian who had declared dead several other prominent people before".

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Austrian A-list actress Christiane Hörbiger has died at age 84.

Her acting career in theatre, film and television began in 1955 and has spanned over 130 film and television productions.

This is a big one in the German speaking countries!

https://kurier.at/kultur/schauspielerin-christiane-hoerbiger-ist-tot/402243030