Karl Dall

Karl Bernhard Dall (German: [kaʁl ˈdal] (listen), 1 February 1941 – 23 November 2020) was a German comedian, singer, and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye was caused by a congenital ptosis.

Karl Dall
Dall in 2009
Born
Karl Bernhard Dall

(1941-02-01)1 February 1941
Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany
Died23 November 2020(2020-11-23) (aged 79)
NationalityGerman
Occupation
  • Comedian
  • Singer
  • TV presenter
Spouse(s)
Barbara
​
(m. 1971)​
ChildrenJanina
AwardsSee Awards
WebsitePersonal website (in German)

Family

Karl Dall was born in Emden, Germany, the son of a school rector and a teacher. He married his wife Barbara in 1971. They had one daughter, Janina, who works as a stuntwoman in Canada.[1] Karl Dall had two sisters and a brother. He lived in Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Career

Karl Dall left school after the 10th grade and accomplished an apprenticeship as a typesetter in a print shop in the town of Leer, East Frisia.

Together with Ingo Insterburg, Jürgen Barz and Peter Ehlebracht he founded in 1967 the comedy group Insterburg & Co. of which he was a member until it ceased to exist in the 1970s. Moreover, he created the TV show Musikladen for Radio Bremen and had since then worked for television broadcasters.

From 1983 until 1990 he used to appear in the hidden camera comedy show Verstehen Sie Spaß?, playing for example a chaotic film presenter or a telephone prankster.

In the German radio broadcast of Radio Luxemburg (RTL) he presented his own comedy show and was also among the first TV-presenters of television channel RTLplus. There he had his own talkshow named Dall-As which was aired from 19 January 1985 until the end of 1991.[2] The concept was to irritate and provoke the guests. On 4 January 1992 he continued this show at the rivalling television channel Sat.1 as Jux und Dallerei.

From 1991 until 1993 he presented the game show Koffer Hoffer on television channel Tele 5. In this show lost luggage, of which the owner could not be identified anymore, was auctioned to the candidates. Later he was member of the initial ensemble of the comedy show 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The spontaneous Karl Dall left the show after a few years due to differences of opinion with Rudi Carrell who always scheduled his shows meticulously.

In September 2006 his autobiography titled Auge zu und durch (Eye shut and through) was published.

On October 23, 2020, precisely a month before his untimely death, Dall evaluated his participation as the lead in the upcoming theater-farce WIN=WIN about social distancing. According to its author-producer Roger Steinmann, he seemed fit and eager, "having read the entire play within five hours".[3]

Dall died on 23 November 2020, having suffered a stroke twelve days earlier.[4]

Filmography

Awards

References
  1. "So freuen sich Tochter und Enkelin: Küsschen aus Kanada für Karl Dall". Blick (in German). 12 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  2. Harald Keller (2009). Die Geschichte der Talkshow in Deutschland (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. p. 269.
  3. Imhof, Michel (2020-11-24). "Komikerlegende Karl Dall (†79) Darum wollte er nie mehr in die Schweiz kommen". Blick News Portal. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  4. "Komiker Karl Dall stirbt mit 79 Jahren" (in German). Welt. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
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