Tag: Obituaries
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…
Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died. – Culture
Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died. As a vigilant admonisher against oblivion, she told young people her life story for many decades. Her dramatic autobiography “I wore the yellow star”,…
Sports reporter Sigismund “Sigi” Bergmann has died – media
Sigismund “Sigi” Bergmann was a lucky sports reporter, because he was able to work in times that still allowed proximity. At the end of the 1960s he came to ORF,…
Kirchseeon mourning the author and local historian Elmar Kramer – Ebersberg
He was a tireless man who left a big gap: the municipality of Kirchseeon mourns the local historian Elmar Kramer, who has now passed away at the age of 87.…
Gary Brooker: Obituary for Shakespeare’s Little Brother – Culture
Nobody understood it, although Gary Brooker articulated it much more clearly than, let’s say, Bob Dylan. The scene apparently takes place in a bar, but the singer gets dizzy. He…