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Hamburg (dpa) - Hanging drooping eyelid, big mouth and always a joke ready: Comedian Karl Dall has conquered the show world with weird humor.
"Close eye and through" is what he called his autobiography - and that is exactly what the prominent guests of his talk shows like "Dall-As" often said to themselves when the TV humorist provoked them again snottily and handed them out properly.
At first it was ignored, then panned and finally declared a cult, he summed it up himself.
"Everyone wanted to sit at the table with Dall and let themselves be fooled - whoever wasn't there didn't belong in the show industry."
At the age of 79, he died on Monday after suffering a stroke on November 11th, his family announced.
He “fell asleep peacefully without having regained consciousness”.
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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.
He was known as a class clown for this: "I didn't think I was funny, but everyone laughed at me," he said later.
He, who was teased as a child for his weak eyelid muscles, made the best of it - and became a professional comedian.
After an apprenticeship as typesetter and doing odd jobs, he met songwriter Ingo Insterburg, and in 1967 the humorous-anarchic group Insterburg & Co (“I loved a girl”) was born, which quickly became an insider tip in the student scene.
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Before the stupid group split up at the end of the 1970s, Dall had established contacts with television.
He brought the “music shop” to the screen, assisted with Rudi Carrell's “Churning” and played in “Do you understand fun?”
Phone pranks.
Dall even made it into the charts with dumbbells (“This disc is a hit”, “Millions of women love me”).
As an actor, he has appeared in front of the camera in numerous productions, including many comedies.
The erotic comedy "Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza" (1983), in which he played the leading role, received devastating reviews.
Dall tried out many things in his unusual career, liked to provoke and polarize.
The stupid bard got his career going, especially in the mid-80s, when he joined the newly founded private broadcaster RTL.
In 1992, his spectacular move to Sat.1 (“Jux und Dallerei”) made television history - until then the most prominent personality in the competition between the two private broadcasters.
"I earned my spurs at RTL, and 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”.
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"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 been with the program “The old man wants more”.
And finally he was back in front of the camera: It was not until the beginning of November that he took on a role for the ARD series “Rote Rosen” - but only after a few days did he suffer the stroke.
He himself received offers for “Celebrity Big Brother” and the TV jungle camp - “in the hope that I will let my pants down there,” said Dall a few years ago.
“But even if I was offered crazy money 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.
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”.
The always polarizing humorist himself was far from that.
"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 school-leaving certificates - I'm not a role model in that.
But you can't have everything. "
And even if he stopped touring after 50 years - he didn't want to retire, he wrote on his homepage.
"A goodbye?
No, no end in sight! "
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