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Comedian and actor Karl Dall died on Monday at the age of 79.

His family said that he has not recovered from a stroke he suffered twelve days ago.

Dall has not recovered from a stroke he suffered twelve days ago.

“Despite the use of all technological and intensive care measures, he fell asleep peacefully today without having regained consciousness beforehand.

He leaves behind a wife, daughter and granddaughter, ”said the family's letter.

"He was not only a popular comedian and entertainer, but above all an exceptionally lovable and nice person."

Dall had taken on the role of old rock star Richie Sky in the daily ARD series "Rote Rosen" since the beginning of November.

In Lüneburg, where the telenovela is being filmed, he then suffered a stroke with cerebral haemorrhage on November 11th.

"I didn't think I was funny, but everyone laughed at me"

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The most famous East Frisian comedian after his colleague Otto Waalkes - like he was born in Emden - celebrated success on stage and on television.

It didn’t look like a career like this for a long time.

The parents wanted to make a civil servant out of him, the teacher's child saw himself as a photographer or cameraman.

After the botched school exit - he dropped out in the tenth grade - parental and personal dreams burst.

For this he was known as a class clown: "I didn't think I was funny, but everyone laughed at me," he later said.

He, who was teased as a child for his weak eyelid muscles, made the best of it - and became a professional comedian.

Dall began his career in 1967 with the group Insterburg & Co (“I loved a girl”), which quickly became an insider tip in the student scene.

Before the stupid group split up at the end of the 1970s, Dall had established contacts with television.

He brought the “music store” with him to the screen, assisted with Rudi Carrell's “Churning” and played pranks on the phone in “Do you understand fun?”

Later he moderated talk shows on television as a stupid bard and joke, placed himself in the charts with hits like “This disc is a hit” and “Millions of women love me” and was an actor in mostly smaller roles for various comedies.

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In 1992, his spectacular move to Sat.1 (“Jux und Dallerei”) made television history - up until then the most prominent personality in the competition between the two private broadcasters.

“I earned my spurs at RTL, the mice at Sat.1,” he later summed up.

But in 1995 Dall returned to RTL, moderated, for example, “Karls Kneipe” and took part in Rudi Carrell's show “7 Days - 7 Heads”.

Later he was rarely seen on the screen, most recently on Tele 5 in "OGOT - Old Guys On Tour".

"I don't believe in a new TV career anymore, but I would like to show again what I'm capable of," he said shortly before his 76th birthday.

“It's just that, apart from Dieter Hallervorden, who enviable made it out of the stupid corner, hardly any of us old comedians get this chance.” Karl Dall had meanwhile also said goodbye to the tour stage, where he had previously started the program "The old man wants more" was written.

Offers for "Celebrity Big Brother" and the jungle camp turned down

He himself had received offers for “Celebrity Big Brother” and the TV jungle camp - “in the hope that I would let my pants down there,” said Dall a few years ago.

“But even if I was offered crazy cash for it, I would rather clean toilets.

Last but not least, my wife threatened to leave me should I ever take part in something like this. ”The couple married in 1971 and had daughter Janina, who caused a stir as a stunt woman.

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In show business he misses bulky guys, said Dall before his stage premiere as “The Grandpa” (2012), he prefers them to “these adapted, ever slimy people who just want to make a good impression”.

"I'm proud of how lucky I was to be able to assert myself in this industry," said the comedian, who was honored with the German Comedy Prize for his life's work.

“I'm less proud of my failing high school diplomas - I'm not a role model in that.

But you can't have everything. ”And even if he stopped touring in 2017 after 50 years - he didn't want to retire, he wrote on his homepage.

"A goodbye?

No, no end in sight! "