Tag: Obituaries
On the death of Tina Turner: tearing down the narrowness again and again – culture
Tina Turner, the singer with the big, brave soul and the even bigger voice, is dead. Obituary for an eternal freedom fighter. Canonization after Höllenweg: If anyone embodied this journey…
On the death of Tina Turner: tearing down the narrowness again and again – culture
Tina Turner, the singer with the big, brave soul and the even bigger voice, is dead. Obituary for an eternal freedom fighter. Canonization after Höllenweg: If anyone embodied this journey…
Obituary for Bertram Rickmers: A Life for Shipping – Economy
If you want to see who shaped shipping, you don’t have to go much further than the Promenade at the Port of Hamburg. There lies the “Rickmer Rickmers”, a three-master…
Helmut Berger is dead: curse of beauty – culture
Helmut Berger is dead, the Austrian world star, who was once the “most beautiful man in the world”, who could electrify an entire cinema hall with one look. As if…
Pianist Menahem Pressler dies at 99
He was a phenomenon in many ways. Menahem Pressler, the solo pianist and chamber musician, was in this country primarily the founder and an active part of the legendary until…
The Man Who Wasn’t Just Dame Edna Everage: Barry Humphries Is Dead
In the last solo program of his long career, he finally appeared as the only one of his characters, “which I have never fully explored”. As “the man behind the…
Bavaria: A Pioneer in Special Education – Bavaria
Every child deserves the same trust and confidence. Her father apparently gave this message to many of his students, says his daughter Angelika Speck-Hamdan. She received numerous letters from former…
Legendary jazz trumpeter Dusko Goykovich is dead. – Munich
Normally, brass players, like athletes, have a biological expiry date: when lung volume and lip tension diminish. Only for the jazz trumpeter Dusko Goykovich that didn’t seem to apply. Even…
Obituary for Buffy Ettmayer: The ball is round – sports
No, he wasn’t a fitness blogger, but he could pass to the millimeter and say wonderful things. To the death of playmaker Buffy Ettmayer, with whom every eleven in midfield…
Bergkirchen: eyewitness dies at the age of 103 – Munich
“I’m a happy person.” Eva Hönigschmid said that just recently. On February 6th, her 103rd birthday, when there was a lot of hustle and bustle around her. District administrator and…