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26.03.15, 15:05

With 76 years

Karl Moik is dead. As several media reported died of Austrian TV presenter on Thursday in the early hours of the morning at the age of 76 years in a Salzburg hospital.

Photo: AP Karl Moik died at the age of 76 years in a clinic Salzburg

million people he brought a piece of perfect world into your living room, others saw him as the personification schunkel blessed smugness. The “Musikantenstadl” the Austrian Karl Moik made to the godfather of folk music. At the same time he called to his involuntary loss in 2005 some criticism from: The simple view of the world for which seemed to be his show was many too easy – others loved even more. On Thursday Moik has died at the age of 76 years in the State Hospital Salzburg.

Born Moik 1938 in Linz, Austria. He grew up as a child of a single mother in Hallein near Salzburg. His father he learned at the age of five years know. His showmanship have made noticeable early on, he said. Nevertheless, he oriented himself professionally, first in a possible different direction: Moik trained as a toolmaker and traveled as an agent for ovens, photocopiers and television antennas around.

Later he hoofed it with the jazz trio “Jolly Austrians” by Europe. Finally, as a shrewd commentator of a football game he was the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), which initially signed him as a broadcaster.

“Musikantenstadtl” celebrated its overwhelming success

In 1980, he finally designed the” Musikantenstadl “, 1983, the show was for the first time on German television. The success was overwhelming: In the Moik era to 2005 saw after ARD information worldwide about 2.3 billion people, the “barn”. Nearly 150 issues were aired – even though all the singers appeared with playback. . Besides the folk music Moik was also operettas and hits a stage

With its live show Moik traveled around the world: 1998 toured the “Musikantenstadl” at Disney World in Florida in 1999 pursued several hundred million viewers of the Chinese state television, the wind music spectacle in Beijing. 1989 Moik “barn” the first major TV show, which was broadcast live after the Fall of East Germany.

“When I pass my career Revue, were 90 to 95 percent a wonderful time, “Moik said on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2013. Over the less nice things he would not have to think so.

Involuntary leaving the” barn “

To which included almost certainly the involuntary retirement of “his” mission. After stirred at the “Silvesterstadl” 2005/2006 in Carinthia his audience of millions clearly the last time he “Hello, Pfüat God and goodbye” said he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized. His departure from the program had been decided against his will by ORF and ARD.

The 54-year-old pop singer Andy Borg then took over the “Musikantenstadl”. “At a certain age youth strives for, and then go to” Moik said in retrospect. Middle of the year is now the next change in the “barn” on: Even Borg leaves the show. Who will succeed him, is not yet clear.

In recent years, Moik moved with his family in Hallein near Salzburg significantly. His wife, Edith, was married to the Moik since 1964, managed not only family life but also the career of her “Karli Buam”. He took orders only unless “a nice round is together.”

He also struggled with health problems. As early as 2004 he had a heart attack during a Mardi Gras celebration in Cologne. Exactly ten years later he suffered on Carnival Monday again in Cologne another heart attack from which he never recovered.

“You know my age, that the distance is not so long, but I will still enjoy it as far as it goes, “said Moik the occasion of his 75th birthday. Now this road has come to an end.

 
  Source: AP / bee

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