TV moderator Max Schaubzer at the age of 84 died

The television presenter Max Schaubzer is dead. Several media report, including the Bild-Newspaper. He died “after a short, serious illness” on Wednesday at the age of 84 in Cologne, as his agent Jürgen Ross confirmed the dpa.

Schaubzer was born in Klagenfurt in 1940. He worked as a TV producer, moderator, actor, speaker, reporter and author for radio and television. At first he studied economics because his father, a merchant, absolutely wanted the eldest son to step into his footsteps. Soon he gave up his actual passion and moved to the drama school in Vienna, from where he went on the show stage. One of his biggest sponsors became the From the from the-Moderator Hans Rosenthal.

“I am very satisfied with the balance of my life and my career”

For the ORF, the Eurovision Song Contest moderated the Eurovision in Jerusalem in 1979, in 1991 he led through the event, this time for the ARD from Rome. The ARD show he designed should be one of his best-known programs Bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns count in which amusing amateur videos of misfortunes have been shown since the mid-1980s. He also moderated The golden one, A place in the sunthe Ard desired concert and Again and again on Sundays. Schaubzer also worked as a columnist for various newspapers. He received a Bambi for his work in 1990.

“I am very satisfied with the balance of my life and my career. Professionally, I didn’t do a single flop, ”he summed up in an interview with the Gala. Most recently, Schachtzer was still active at the theater, including at the comedy at the Altstadtmarkt in Braunschweig and at the Theater an der Kö in Düsseldorf. Schauzer’s wife Gundel died four years ago at the age of 76. “We were married for 53 years, had a fulfilling life and were happy until the last day,” he said on the occasion of her death.