Father of the “Musikantenstadl”: Death of Charles Moik: From toolmaker to … – evening paper Munich

Fans mourn Karl Moik: The Austrian entertainer and inventor of the “Musikantenstadl” has died at the age of 76 in a hospital in Salzburg. A tribute to the controversial icon of folk music.

As the father of the “Musikantenstadl” on Thursday morning at the side of his woman died, the skies over the Salzburg clinic was overcast. The story of Karl Moik (1938-2015) seems to be a white-blue, one was dancing, singing and laughing in the lot. The Schunkel mood, he spread his folk music show, has not everyone, but a surprising number like: The program on ARD and ORF had in his time as a moderator in Germany, Austria and Switzerland average of around 20 million viewers. After scandals involving xenophobic remarks and insults from guests Moik had recently also polarized in far more than musical taste beyond.

From the first broadcast on 5 . March 1981 to the “New Year’s barn” on 31.12.2005 was the live show in the hands of its inventor from Linz, who used to say: “I am the barn.” It was no secret that Moik his role as “king of folk music” absolutist mind and a tight ship led. “I have been given nothing” is the title of his 1997 autobiography, and suggests that the born during the war, toolmaker has traveled a rocky road before the cure show the world as a friendly” barn “uncles

A Jolly Austrian with serious health problems became a symbol of popular coziness.

Before he came to appropriate wealth with this, his entertainment show, Moik worked as a representative of photocopiers and television antennas, tingelte as a member the band Jolly Austrians across the country, played piano and accordion, completed a speech training and worked as announcer and radio presenter. In 1964 he married his wife Edith, with whom he has a son and a daughter. A Residential Life. But for Moik health it was still not solid enough: since 2004, he suffered several heart attacks, once with subsequent coma, got early set three bypasses and was recently admitted to the hospital three weeks ago due to kidney problems, in which he at the age of 76 years finally died.

“The stoned the strongest stuff”

In memory is the critics remain a man, called the Italian “wop”, it apologized to the previous administration of narcotics and parallels between himself and Stalin moved. Fans, however, will remember an entertainer who vehemently defended his protege -Krieg Stefan Mross the “trumpet” to playback allegations. The guested with his mission during the Cold War in Beijing and Cottbus, who had the age-old Luis Trenker in the show and about Stefan Raab’s song “The Karl, Karl, Moik Moik Moik who stoned the strongest stuff stuff stuff “secretly smiled.