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

[YoungWillz 21,213]

German film director and screenwriter Wolfgang Becker, famed for Good Bye Lenin! reportedly dead: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/wolfgang-becker-dead-goodbye-lenin-director-1236086288/

[Neol Edmunds 89]

Hitler's Godson, Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont - dead
QO? https://www.wlz-online.de/waldeck/bad-arolsen/das-waldecker-land-trauert-um-wittekind-fuerst-zu-waldeck-und-pyrmont-93471001.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekind,_Prince_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont

[gcreptile 11,078]

On 15/10/2024 at 09:31, gcreptile said:

Well now Justus Frantz is copying Michael Tilson Thomas with a brain tumour and an aneurysm:

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100509656/justus-frantz-stardirigent-beendet-karriere-wegen-tumor-diagnose.html

 

He'll be going on a final tour and isn't sure if he survives next year. But it's also not yet known what kind of tumour it is. And after all, Tilson Thomas is still alive.

Justus Frantz clarifies that he does not have a tumour, just an aneurysm in his aorta that could explode under too much strain:

https://www.bunte.de/stars/star-life/stars-privat/justus-frantz-ich-fuehle-mich-wie-mit-18.html

 

Otherwise he feels like 18, and recently announced that he lives together with his 27-year old male manager (as one parallel with Michael Tilson Thomas goes away, other one appears):

https://schwulissimo.de/klatsch/neue-liebe-mit-80-jahren-star-dirigent-justus-frantz-ist-verliebt

[gcreptile 11,078]

Our number 49, Didi Constantini, has died at age 69:

https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/didi-constantini-ist-tot-trainerlegende-aus-oesterreich-gestorben-a-85f38153-f215-4675-8813-54ab58adc323

 

Former national football coach of Austria. Our hit no. 9 this year.

[Book 3,594]

Wow, I didn't expect another hit this year! 9 hits, not so bad in 2024!

[gcreptile 11,078]

Oh... Former german Ski jumping coach Wolfgang Steiert has died at age 61:

https://www.sportschau.de/regional/swr/swr-ex-bundestrainer-wolfgang-steiert-gestorben-100.html

 

He also coached the Russian team for a while. He was co-coach during Germany's successes in the late 90s/early 00s, so he was known to the audience, like me, who spent the Sunday watching winter sports. 

[Neol Edmunds 89]

Hermes Phettberg has died

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000249981/hermes-phettberg-verstorben-im-himmel-erwarten-ihn-die-jeansboys

[gcreptile 11,078]

27 minutes ago, Neol Edmunds said:

Hermes Phettberg has died

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000249981/hermes-phettberg-verstorben-im-himmel-erwarten-ihn-die-jeansboys

About 20 years later than expected... a true original.

[Neol Edmunds 89]

2 hours ago, gcreptile said:

About 20 years later than expected... a true original.

 

I saw him out and about in the 6th district of Vienna in his prime (around 20 years ago!), and wouldn't have bet my last Sparbuch on him making it to the end of 2024.