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

[msc 17,762]

One of the greatest footballers of all time and his memoirs were vastly entertaining too. Nureyev tried to seduce him! RIP 

[Book 3,352]

34 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Franz Beckenbauer, the legendary sweeper who played for West Germany's national team from 1965 to 1977, died at 78 years:

https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/unser-fussball-kaiser-mit-78-gestorben-franz-beckenbauer-ist-tot-86680790.bild.html

He spent the bulk of his club career with Bayern Munich, appearing in 427 matches from 1964 to 1977. He also managed the team for a time after his retirement.

 

I never expected HIM to be our first hit this year or to be a hit this early...

[Gisooo 2,542]

On 03/12/2022 at 19:27, ThePrematureBurial said:

Found this list of  Austrian movie stars:

 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_österreichischer_Filmschauspieler

 

Some of the famous ones who are still alive:

 

Senta Berger (1941)

Waltraud Haas (1927)

Lotte Ledl (1930)

Gerlinde Locker (1938)

Erni Mangold (1927)

Johanna Matz (1932)

Christine Schuberth (1944)

Nadja Tiller (1929)

Bibiana Zeller (1928)

Sybil Danning (1947)

Dagmar Koller (1939)

Klaus-Maria Brandauer (1943)

Freddy Quinn (1931)

Otto Schenk (1931)

Peter Weck (1930)

Helmut Berger (1940)

Franz Buchrieser (1937)

Karl Merkatz (1930)

Lukas Resetarits (1947)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947)

Peter Simonischek (1946)

Marianne Mendt (1945)

Marianne Nentwich (1942)

Elisabeth Orth (1936)

Christine Ostermayer (1936)

Elisabeth Trissenaar (1944)

Heidelinde Weis (1940)

 

Austrian actress Elisabeth Trissenaar (Wiki) dead at 79

 

[gcreptile 10,234]

Curious case, president of football club Hertha BSC Berlin, Kay Bernstein, dies of a heart attack at 43:

https://www.sportschau.de/regional/rbb/rbb-hertha-praesident-kay-bernstein-mit-43-jahren-gestorben-100.html

 

He got into office in 2022 as the fans' choice, being a member of the Fan community himself.

[Book 3,352]

German producer and songwriter Frank Farian (Boney M, Milli Vanilli) has died! He was 82.

More to follow!

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/musik/id_100327650/erfolgsproduzent-frank-farian-ist-tot.html

 

 

Edit (so far): He died peacefully in his sleep.

[gcreptile 10,234]

4 minutes ago, Book said:

German producer and songwriter Frank Farian (Boney M, Milli Vanilli) has died! He was 82.

More to follow!

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/musik/id_100327650/erfolgsproduzent-frank-farian-ist-tot.html

Damn, I think we had him briefly in our sight last year. He did have some problems.

[Book 3,352]

Maybe he couldn't cope with the fact that the current movie about Milli Vanilli isn't doing so well...

 

However, he himself was briefly a successful Schlager singer.

1976 No. 1 in the German charts for 4 weeks: Rocky

 

 

[YoungWillz 19,098]

9 minutes ago, Book said:

German producer and songwriter Frank Farian (Boney M, Milli Vanilli) has died! He was 82.

More to follow!

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/musik/id_100327650/erfolgsproduzent-frank-farian-ist-tot.html

Wondered whether I could shoe horn him into my TOTP theme team! Alas, he didn’t really qualify. 
 

A loss to lip syncers around the world. RIP.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Hopefully he isn't cremated so Fab Morvan gets the fully deserved chance to dance on his grave.

[gcreptile 10,234]

DDP pick for one team, though.

[Book 3,352]

7 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Damn, I think we had him briefly in our sight last year. He did have some problems.

 

We had Frank Farian on our long long long list.

Last year we had Ralph Siegel but dropped him this year.

[msc 17,762]

14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Wondered whether I could shoe horn him into my TOTP theme team! Alas, he didn’t really qualify. 
 

A loss to lip syncers around the world. RIP.

Boney M are genuinely great fun. That's how I like my manufactured pop. (And tbf Liz Mitchell carried them.)

 

Less said about Milli Vanilli the better though.

[Book 3,352]

1 hour ago, msc said:

Boney M are genuinely great fun. That's how I like my manufactured pop. (And tbf Liz Mitchell carried them.)

 

Less said about Milli Vanilli the better though.

In fact, my favorite Boney M. song is "Belfast", sung by Marcia Barrett. This must have been one of the few hit songs that wasn't sung by Liz Mitchell.

After "Belfast" I also really like "Ma Baker", "Daddy Cool" and "Rasputin". Great party and dancing songs!

 

And back then, “Girl you know it’s true” by Milli Vanilli was simply a bop! I really liked it and still think it's pretty good today. Guilty pleasure

[gcreptile 10,234]

Huh.... I always thought that Rasputin and Dschingis Khan were produced by the same person. Turns out that Ralph Siegel only copied Frank Farian.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

The forgotten third part of the Farian trinity is No Mercy:

 

 

[The Old Crem 3,180]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

DDP pick for one team, though.

And obits all over.

[Imelda 606]

Poor sod croaked just before the post-Xmas royalty cheque for Mary's Boy Child came through

[Whitehouse 821]

He actially was the voice of Boney M and not Bobby Farrell. The ladies did sing their part.

[Book 3,352]

1 minute ago, Whitehouse said:

He actially was the voice of Boney M and not Bobby Farrell. The ladies did sing their part.

Only two thirds of them 

[Toast 14,847]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

The forgotten third part of the Farian trinity is No Mercy:

 

And there was this too

 

 

[Whitehouse 821]

La Bouche was also a project. That singer died when a Swiss airliner crashed she was sitting in.

[N. Fritz 49]

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/

[Gisooo 2,542]

German actor Achim Benning (Wiki) dead at 89

[TomTomTelekom 3,604]

Austrian Painter, performance artist, and co-founder of the controversial Viennese Actionism movement Günter Brus, died at 85 years:

https://www.bazonline.ch/praegende-figur-des-wiener-aktionismus-skandalkuenstler-guenter-brus-gestorben-176355212641

He was sentenced to a prison term for his shocking, revolutionary performance "art and revolution" at the University of Vienna in which he sang the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating.

He was also recipient of the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1997 and foremost figure of the NO!Art movement.

[TomTomTelekom 3,604]

German actress Johanna von Koczian died at 90 years:

https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/johanna-von-koczian-ist-tot-die-schauspielerin-wurde-90-jahre-alt-87173710.bild.html