This week, on Tuesday, the actor Wichart von Roëll died, aged 86. For half a century he did not shape German entertainment television, but he helped shape it. The long career from 1973 was refined in Michael Pfleghar’s WDR comedy Klimbim. The man who came from the noble Roëll family, the head of the Klimbim family, played the militant grandpa. Outfit: Yellow bathrobe, monocle, saber. Running gag, delivered in a scratchy veteran voice at the breakfast table: “Holy shit, the eggs are hard as bones again.” In every episode the balls were hard. In addition, a man always fell off his chair. And that should be funny?
On the death of “Klimbim” grandpa Wichart von Roëll: 1973 officially ended – media
