Joachim Fuchs Berger was one of the main actors and presenters German television history. 87-year-old he died. Before death he was not afraid.
Joachim Fuchs Berger, 2012 in Munich | © Peter Kneffel / dpa
Joachim Fuchs Berger – for decades called Blacky – is a television Legend, a cinema legend, a show-legend. His eventful long life reflected West German media history, only a legend, he declined to be named. Until recently, he was always on the go and enterprising and curious people. He was especially pleased when this audience – “his” audience – was young. Often we went to his Edgar Wallace films. Often, but also about values. If he could pass something, then it fill this out, he said. That was his “drug of communication”.
Joachim Fuchs Berger was a man who walked with a very firm own attitude through life. Since then, he was sent at the age of only 15 years in the war, was a soldier in the Air Force, and with 18 veteran and survivor of the Second World War, he had vowed “to be independent, and never over-directed back”. His experience because he brought in one of his most important roles, that of Gunner Asch in the German anti-war film 8.15 from the year 1954 with director, Paul May, from now on whom he had a lifelong friendship. Then, in the years 1959-1972 he worked in more than a dozen of those legendary Edgar Wallace films with: in The Frog with the Mask (1959) The Black Abbot (1963) or Under the spell of the uncanny (1967). Fuchsberger always played the good, mostly for the Scotland Yard investigating, then Richard Gordon or Dick Alford or Inspector Higgins said. Fuchsberger here was always the positive connotation hero. A heartthrob also. It might well have become an international career. And it finally came requests from Hollywood. But he refused – as always in close consultation with his wife Gundel – because of the many constraints of the U.S. studio system
As he sat in 1972 at the Summer Olympics in Munich stadium chief spokesman in the glass box on the microphone. benefited him the same single-mindedness: Fuchsberger received during the closing ceremony of the message that a hijacked plane fly bound for Munich. A terrorist attack? Tens of thousands of people were in the stadium and he had to decide quickly what to do. “I was afraid of the decision that you have conferred upon me: If I let leave the stadium or not,” Berger told Fox later. Shortly before the Olympic village was attacked. “If I would have in this situation prompted 75,000 people to leave the stadium as soon as possible, then you can imagine what would have happened.” He decided against it. “I would not have been happy for the rest of my life there when totgetrampelte people had located below, even though nothing had happened.”
With the kids movie The Flying Classroom finished Fuchsberger 1973 his acting career and went to watch TV. He was talk show host and finally moderated, besides 300 broadcasts the talk show Today ‘evening (1980-1991), also 60 issues of great ARD Saturday night show On steady, go ( 1977-1986).
was a delightful challenge him: “enter from a closed film studio in the white water of live television entertainment, there are many a neck broke you are alone in front of millions of people and be challenged to say to each situation the best possible.. This does not always work, “he once said.
In his show were so well-known guests such as Sean Connery and Peter Ustinov and his friend Wallace and partner Klaus Kinski. His own appearance in a white nightgown as Wetteinlösung for Wetten, dass …? made a splash on the other hand as well, as he increasingly been criticized with alleged verbal blunders. “Here, my nightgown was then a chaste peasant shirt that hung down to the floor,” he said. But 1983 was such an appearance totally unacceptable. As the criticism too violent and hurtful was, he abdicated, ending the show and moved with his wife back in his second home country of Australia.
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