Tag: Obituaries
Obituary for Ray Liotta: The man with the hard eyes – culture
It’s the way he rests his arm on the table and holds the cigarette and strokes his hair, blowing aside a transparent puff of smoke and staring hard-eyed at his…
Munich: “Godfather of Gothic” Peter Frohmader died. – Munich
A few years ago, Peter Frohmader received a phone call from Japan. It was said that they wanted to exhibit him there as a wax figure together with other German…
After the death of Hans Janke: his interview about good conversations – media
The great journalist and film enabler Hans Janke died on April 20th. He gave this interview about German television, talk shows and bad dialogue in 2003. Interviewed by Alexander Gorkov…
Obituary for Hans Janke: Pleasure in doubt – media
Of Nils Minkmar Lately he had become a flâneur whom one met without making an appointment. His easy-going, free-spirited manner of strolling around the city provided a sharp contrast to…
Sauerlach – Church rebel Willibald Glas is dead – Munich district
Willibald Glas never wanted to be bent. In South Africa, where the Catholic priest was a missionary in the 1950s and 1960s, he caused a scandal by welcoming white and…
The Dresden poet Thomas Rosenlocher has died at the age of 74. – Culture
Thomas Rosenlocher once described himself as a bearded man with “sparse, tangled hair”. In fact, it was his gaze that caught the eye: owlish, curious, questioning, there was also something…
Concrete poetry: the poet Franz Mon has died. – Culture
The poet Franz Mon died at the age of 95 in Frankfurt am Main, where he was also born on May 6, 1926. At the age of seventeen, Mon was…
On the death of the Turkish journalist and playwright Aydın Engin. – Media
Like Joschka Fischer, who later became Foreign Minister, he drove a taxi in Frankfurt in the 1980s, and even if Aydın Engin never became a diplomat, he was still a…
Writer Henning Boëtius died. – Culture
The writer Henning Boëtius has died. This was announced by his publisher btb in Munich. Boëtius was a prolific author of biographical novels such as JMR Lenz, Clemens Brentano and…
Obituary for actor William Hurt: With an unfathomable smile – culture
In one of his first films, “Body Heat,” he appears briefly in an eerily cold light. It’s hot in Florida and he yanks open the fridge and stands in front…