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TV producer Wolfgang Rademann died

With the “black forest clinic” he has television history. Wolfgang Rademann had a nose for popular TV-materials, his Shows were a guarantee of success. Now the producer with 81 died.

Born in Berlin, was the terror of every Talkmasters: his dry Humor and his quick wit were infamous. But Wolfgang Rademann knew just how to get the masses in front of the TV screen to entertain had. His most important TV series such as the “black forest clinic” and the “dreamboat”, he produced with great passion and creative energy. He “knew and loved his audience and had an unmistakable feeling for new entertainment shows and television shows,” said ZDF Director Thomas Bellut, the producers, the ZDF’s greatest TV achievements.

The Team of the famous “black forest clinic” with Professor Brinkmann (Klaus-Jürgen Wussow/middle)

Was born Wolfgang Rademann on 24. November 1934 in East Berlin. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter he works in the GDR in the printing business of the “night Express”. In his early days as a local reporter, he was also for the broadcasting industry. Music programmes had done to him. After his escape in 1958, he continued his Reporterarbeit in the West for the “as such” and various magazines fort.

Unmistakable flair for Entertaining

Boulevardthemen brought him quickly into contact with the artistic scene. His first permanent contract got the young Rademann as chief press officer of the female singer Catarina Valente. In 1966, he invented his first television Show: “life is the greatest Show”, another very successful programmes were created in his creative head. In 1969 came the breakthrough as a TV producer with the first “Peter-Alexander-Show” – a huge crowd-pleaser.

First-class entertainment: “A crazy Couple of” with Grit Boettcher, and Harald Juhnke

The “Unterhaltungsfuzzy”, as Wolfgang Rademacher self-mockingly called it, stand with all the big Stars on You and You, produced for Lilli Palmer, Wenke Myhre and Anneliese Rothenberger Shows and TV shows. Particularly popular with the audience were his Comedy shows: “Laugh again” with Günther Pfitzmann, as well as “A crazy Couple of” with Harald Juhnke and Grit Boettcher. He understood his working as a producer “as a service to the public”. “I’m not keen on a Grimme award. My old saying, ‘if I have a good review in the “süddeutsche Zeitung” get, what I’ve done wrong’, it is still valid,” he joked in 2008 in an Interview with “time.”

Wolfgang Rademann 2011 with his partner, the actress Ruth
Maria Kubitschek

But his greatest successes were the “love boat” and the legendary “black forest clinic” after 20 years, again as a continuation of the series with the entire old cast will continue to be produced. At the time, announced the self-proclaimed “Workaholic” to: “It is again a movie for the whole family, full of tension and emotions. The new Hero is the son of Professor Brinkmann, the Klinikarbeit his father has taken over. The old Brinkmann does not operate itself.”

Sunday is the TV producer Wolfgang Rademann died, such as the ZDF officially announced. “We mourn the loss of a great entertainer.”

hm/so (dpa/epd/zdf.de)