Gunther Emmerlich, singer, presenter, entertainer, danced between worlds. Obituary for someone who always wanted to reach out to the people.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, westerners got to know a lot of people who had been seen as TV favorites in the East and now wanted to become pan-German TV stars. In the West the word for darling was star. Dagmar Frederic, Wolfgang Lippert, Gunther Emmerlich and others had stirred a cauldron of colorful things over there with maximum participation from the audience and at the very best broadcast time. Now it was a matter of providing them with the appropriately sized vessel in front of a new backdrop. But repotting is difficult.