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

[gcreptile 10,234]

He was in hospice, but still had appetite as of last week. I thought it might be an April death.

Also, well done to us! No. 1 dead, and fifth hit.

DACH- and french list are doing pretty excellent so far.

[TomTomTelekom 3,604]

Multiple-time World Champion boxer in the Junior Bantamweight division Alesia Graf died at 43 years:

https://www.donaukurier.de/nachrichten/panorama/medien-box-weltmeisterin-alesia-graf-verstorben-freundin-regina-halmich-fassungslos-15718506

[YoungWillz 19,099]

9 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

He was in hospice, but still had appetite as of last week. I thought it might be an April death.

Also, well done to us! No. 1 dead, and fifth hit.

DACH- and french list are doing pretty excellent so far.

With Reaper wandering around Central Europe, Stanley Baxter and Gudrun Ure, not to mention Glen Michael, are all rubbing their hands with glee having been granted immortality. 

 

Is that what you want, Reaper? 

 

(Not looking good for Petula Clark, mind!).

[Book 3,352]

Beside his very successful career in TV series (Derrick, Um Himmels Willen, Zwei Brüder) in the German speaking countries, Fritz Wepper also had some success in international productions like the legendary „Cabaret“, where he played the role of Fritz Wendel. Hopefully a qo will come in.

[Gisooo 2,546]

German singer and baritone Günther Leib (Wiki) dead at 96

 

[gcreptile 10,234]

Germany's 2nd best known judge on TV, Alexander Hold, has prostate cancer (carcinoma) that has already spread a little.

https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/tv-richter-alexander-hold-hat-krebs-diagnose-kam-aus-heiterem-himmel-87769218.bildMobile.html

[whoismakoto 285]

German actress Vera Tschechowa dead at 83

[Book 3,352]

German actor Peter Sodann has died on Friday. He was 87 years old.

He began acting in television shows during the late 1970s. In 1992 he first appeared in his most famous screen role in the long-running crime series "Tatort". He remained with the series until November 2007.

https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-04/07/schauspieler-peter-sodann-gestorben

[WEP 825]

5 hours ago, Book said:

German actor Peter Sodann has died on Friday. He was 87 years old.

He began acting in television shows during the late 1970s. In 1992 he first appeared in his most famous screen role in the long-running crime series "Tatort". He remained with the series until November 2007.

https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-04/07/schauspieler-peter-sodann-gestorben

And he was presidential candidate in 2009! His acting career ended apruptly afterwards.

[WEP 825]

On 05/04/2024 at 15:56, gcreptile said:

Germany's 2nd best known judge on TV, Alexander Hold, has prostate cancer (carcinoma) that has already spread a little.

https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/tv-richter-alexander-hold-hat-krebs-diagnose-kam-aus-heiterem-himmel-87769218.bildMobile.html

He was also a presidential candidate, but in 2017. His tv career was already over at thet time.

[Neol Edmunds 57]

Austrian/British journalist Hella Pick has died. There was an excellent Desert Island Discs with her a couple of years ago.

 

Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/04/hella-pick-obituary

[Gisooo 2,546]

On 31/12/2023 at 08:03, Book said:

21. (22) Eckart Dux, German film and voice actor, *19.12.1926

 

As it reported

 

Eckart Dux dead at 97

[Book 3,352]

7 hours ago, Gisooo said:

 

As it reported

 

Eckart Dux dead at 97

 

D-A-CH-Hit No.6 ist Eckart Dux, a very well-known German TV and theatre actor and especially voice actor, who died on April 9th at the age of 97.

He has been one of the longest active German-speaking voice actors, dubbing US movies and series into German, e.g. Anthony Perkins in Psycho, George Peppard in The A-Team, Jerry Stiller in King of Queens or Ian McKellen as Gandalf.

There is no official press release yet, it is probably too early in the morning.

 

Now everyone is awake:

https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/regional/niedersachsen-bremen/fernsehen--synchronsprecher-eckart-dux-gestorben-34618828.html

[Prophet 245]

Some other German voice actors born before 1930 who are still alive following Eckart Dux's death are:

• Rolf Schimpf (14 November 1924), not a real voice actor but he did some dubbing work in the 80s, his health issues are well-known, I think and he's lived in a retirement home for almost 14 years now
• Joachim Konrad (15 November 1924), had over hundred roles in "Star Trek", "Twillight Zone", "Poirot" etc., there are rumours that he might died in 2017 but no source to confirm it
• Rolf Marnitz (6 December 1925), dubbed Harry Dean Stanton in "The Godfather II" and had some other minor roles in "Batman", "Star Wars" and "The Omen" but already retired in the early 90s, he continued to do audio books until 2014, he possibly died off-radar
• Detlev Witte (1 January 1926), his last role was Jason Robards in "Magnolia" in 2000 which he did fabulously and won an award for, an Wikipedia user edited his page in 2021 and claimed that he died on 8 August 2003 and corrected his birthdate to "9 May" but he didn't gave a source so that edit was reversed, on the other hand an supposed grandchild of his edited his page in 2017 to also correct his birth date to "9 May" and didn't wrote anything about him being passed away, he also said that he still has his German Dubbing Award and wants to add a picture of it to the article in future, which he never did
• Osman Ragheb (11 May 1926), half-Egyptian and half-Austrian, who grew up in the British Mandate of Palestine, and later spoke Tony Shalhoub, Jon Voight, Kreacher in the Harry Potter Franchise and Peter Vaughan in Game of Thrones, he also had a small acting role in Schindler's List and was a dialect coach who worked with Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep in his career, he's retired nowadays, is almost deaf and has some memory problems, even though he still writes poems for his wife, which he can recite by memory, he gave an radio interview last year and he's an very friendly and intelligent guy
• Thomas Reiner (29 October 1926), probably most well-known for dubbing Professor Farnsworth but he didn't had that role in the Futurama revival last year, seems to be still active irregulary and only complained about sight problems in an interview from 2016, his last job seems to have been in 2021
• Richard Baier (27 November 1926), not a classical voice actor but he's the radio presenter who first announced the 20 July 1944 plot to the public during World War II and later delivered the last propaganda report of the "Greater German Broadcast", where he famously said "The Fuhrer is dead, long live the Empire", he later was a political prisoner in East Germany for his work with American Sector Radio broadcasts, because of his historical significance I highly doubt that he died without an report
• Renate Grosser (18 September 1927), she dubbed the creepy old women in "Blair Witch Project", who described the Blair Witch, as a hairy half-human and half-animal beast, aside from that she seemed to have done a lot of cheesy crime shows in the 70s and 80s
• Friedrich Georg Beckhaus (11 December 1927), voice of Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Duvall and Klaus Kinski (who was too lazy to dub himself, which annoyed the dub director, which is why they gave him a thick Saxon accent in some of his movies), he finally retired last year
• Jürgen Thormann (12 February 1928), lives in an retirement home now but still voiced Michael Caine last year to everyone's surprise
• Karl-Ulrich Meves (13 November 1928), voiced Grover in the German version of the Sesame street among other lesser known roles, recently came out of retirement to appear in an audio play
• Eva-Maria Lahl (1929), not much is known about her, couldn't even find a picture of her on the web but she voices Agnes Skinner in "The Simpsons" and is still active

May these legends continue to live very long

[Book 3,352]

1 hour ago, Prophet said:

May these legends continue to live very long

 

Sorry, but not the ones on our current list (Schimpf, Reiner, Beckhaus)!!! 

[gcreptile 10,234]

German A-list actor Til Schweiger (International audiences may have seen him in Inglorious Basterds) suffers from sepsis and is hospitalised:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/til-schweiger-leidet-offenbar-an-sepsis-a-392f145a-bc47-48de-990e-a03da4a45b95

 

He has an open leg wound since last August.

[TomTomTelekom 3,604]

German former professional  footballer and world cup winner Bernd Hölzenbein,  who played as a striker, died at 78 years:

https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/eintracht-frankfurt/tot-mit-78-eintracht-frankfurt-trauert-um-weltmeister-hoelzenbein-87900948.bild.html

At international level, he was a member of the Team that won the World Cup 1974.

[Whitehouse 821]

3 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

German former professional  footballer and world cup winner Bernd Hölzenbein,  who played as a striker, died at 78 years:

https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/eintracht-frankfurt/tot-mit-78-eintracht-frankfurt-trauert-um-weltmeister-hoelzenbein-87900948.bild.html

At international level, he was a member of the Team that won the World Cup 1974.

On behalve of everybody Dutch football fan:

 

 

FUCK YOU!!!!

[Whitehouse 821]

1974 final. He made a dive and Germany got a penalty. Still a sore spot. He confessed later.

[Book 3,352]

The last of the original Klimbim stars has also died (after Ingrid Steeger in December 2023): German actor and comedian Wichart von Roëll, 4 days before his 87th birthday.

https://www.fr.de/panorama/klimbim-tv-star-wichart-von-roell-ist-tot-gestorben-86-jahre-hospiz-schauspieler-star-zr-93015216.html

 

 

Klimbim main cast:

 

Elisabeth Volkmann (16.03.1936 – between 25.-27.07.2006) (season 1-5)

Horst Jüssen (10.01.1941 – 10.11.2008) (season 1-4)

Helmut Holger (16.03.1926 – 17.01.2012) (season 1-5)

Peer Augustinski (25.06.1940 – 03.10.2014) (season 3-5)

Ingrid Steeger (01.04.1947 – 22.12.2023) (season 1-5)

Wichart von Roëll (20.04.1937 – 16.04.2024) (season 1-5)

 

other cast members:

 

Dieter Augustin (20.02.1934 – 15.07.1989) (season 1)

Manfred Jester (? - 25.05.1977) (season 1)

Franz Muxeneder (19.10.1920 – 03.01.1988) (season 2)

Barbara Valentin (15.12.1940 – 22.02.2002) (season 3)

Hans Clarin (14.09.1929 – 28.08.2005) (season 3)

Klaus Dahlen (23.05.1938 – 16.05.2006) (season 5)

 

alive:

 

Christine Schuberth (11.02.1944) (season 2)

Gundolf Willer (31.03.1937) (season 5)

[gcreptile 10,234]

Another german with sepsis, conductor Justus Frantz:

https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100389552/star-dirigent-justus-frantz-schwebte-nach-sepsis-in-lebensgefahr.html

 

Already had him as an Idea for 2019 after another "I nearly died" episode:

 

[gcreptile 10,234]

German librarian Klaus Otto Nagorsnik suddenly dead at 69:

https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv-fernsehformate/gefragt-gejagt-klaus-otto-nagorsnik-ueberraschend-gestorben-66294b91c419f44c65ebbc9

 

Well-known for being the enemy of the participants in the German quiz show "Gefragt - gejagt". One of the few german shows I watched myself.

A strangely low age for someone like him. You'd have guessed him dying at least in his 80s.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

First Chaser to die from any international version of the show, I think?

[gcreptile 10,234]

9 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

First Chaser to die from any international version of the show, I think?

Well, now that you've sent me to Wikipedia, the first one was Croatian Mirko Miocic.

https://hr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Miočić

[YoungWillz 19,099]

On 23/01/2021 at 10:04, ThePrematureBurial said:

Hi, Book!

 

Thank you for sending me the long list. You put a good deal of work into this!

 

Here is my - very sketchy - list of other German - speaking celebrities over 80. I don't know how well-known some Austrian celebrities are outside of Austria, though:

 

 

Michael Verhoeven (1938) Film director

Michael Verhoeven is reportedly dead https://www-bild-de.translate.goog/unterhaltung/stars-und-leute/michael-verhoeven-ist-tot-senta-berger-trauert-um-ihre-grosse-liebe-662b657250507b413fea4cc2?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

 

Last picked for the DDP in 2020 so List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_V.html#verhoemx19

 

Wrong Verhoeven picked this year, ha!