After a stroke: comedian Karl Dall is dead

Karl Dall died at the age of 79. The comedian and TV presenter died of a stroke. Dalls career began with the group “Insterburg & Co” and ended with a role in the TV series “Rote Rosen”.

The comedian and TV presenter Karl Dall died at the age of 79, as his family announced to the dpa news agency. Dall has not recovered from a stroke he suffered twelve days ago.

“Peacefully asleep”

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

Early beginnings in the 1960s

The comedian, who, like Otto Waalkes, came from 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 dropping out of school in the tenth grade, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter and kept himself above water with odd jobs. Finally he met the singer-songwriter Ingo Insterburg, and in 1967 the humorous-anarchic group “Insterburg & Co” was born and thus also for Dalls career as a comedian.

Actor, singer and joke king

Before “Insterburg & Co” 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 in “Do you understand fun?” Phone pranks.

Dall tried out many things in his career, liked to provoke and polarize. With hits like “This disc is a hit” and “Millions of women love me” he placed himself in the charts. As an actor, he has appeared in front of the camera in numerous productions, including many comedies.

Own formats in private television

He got his career going especially in the mid-1980s when he joined the newly founded private broadcaster RTL. There he had his own format from 1985 to 1991 with “Dall-As”. In 1992 he switched to Sat. 1 and “Jux und Dallerei”, which could be seen until 1994. 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.

“I don’t believe in a new TV career anymore, but I would like to show 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.”

In the meantime, Dall had also said goodbye to the tour stage, where he was previously with the program “The old man wants more”. In the end he stood for them ARD-Series “Rote Rosen” but again in front of the camera.