Even though you don’t know them personally, the death of artists for concern: We take farewell from the writers and singers, actors and Directors, the us in 2018 to leave.
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We mourn…
Dolores O’riordan
She was the distinctive voice of the Band, The Cranberries. Hits like “Zombie” and “Linger” shaped the Sound of the Nineties. The Cranberries disbanded in 2003, but came back later. A planned Tour of the Band had to cancel Dolores O’riordan 2017 due to health problems. The Irish woman died in January at the age of 47 years.
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Stephen Hawking
The Astro-physicist Stephen Hawking was an example of the will to live. The nervous disease tied him to the wheelchair; after a pneumonia in the middle of the 1980s, Hawking could no longer speak. He agreed, via a voice computer. Nevertheless, he was part of the pop culture, “Star Trek” and “Simpsons”. 14. March died, Stephen Hawking, at the age of 76 years.
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Milos Forman
The Czech-American Director, advanced into the country of his birth, the New-Wave cinema. After the Emigration to the United States, he gave Hollywood the classic “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” (1975) and “Amadeus” (1984), the most twelve Oscars local. Milos Forman died on 13. April.
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Philip Roth
Sarcastic, humorous, melancholic: With this style, and novels such as “The human stain” or “the plot against America,” wrote Philip Roth in the literary Olympus. He wrote the classics, but presented a new Bestseller. “Roth is the greatest writer of our time”, wrote in 2009 “the Guardian”. 23. May the author died at 85 years of age.
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Tom Wolfe
Writer Tom Wolfe, wore preferably white suits, and often a hat, he coined the reportage style of the “New journalism” and created with “the bonfire of the vanities” is a world bestseller. Wolfe was regarded as a keen observer of the everyday American life. He died on the 14. In may at the age of 88 years.
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Hilmar Hoffmann
With his call for a “culture for all” wrote Hilmar Hoffmann, the on 1. June passed away, history. He founded film festivals, cinemas, museums – and was head of the Goethe-Institut. Against his will he was forced to close due to the pressure to economise in his term of office, 30 Goethe-Institute. His commitment to bring the culture in all layers of society, is unparalleled in Germany.
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Dieter Wellershoff
Dieter Wellershoff is considered to be one of the most important writers of the post-war period. He wrote more than 40 novels, short stories, plays and Essays. He developed the “Cologne school of New realism”, he claimed, a way of writing that puts the “everyday life” in the center. 15. June, the choice of the Cologne at the age of 92 years died.
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V. S. Naipaul
As the British writer V. S. Naipaul received the 2001 Nobel prize for literature, called him the Royal Swedish Academy as a “literary circumnavigator”. Its themes of racism, post-colonialism and the uprooting of the people were. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in 1932 in Chaguanas in the vicinity of Port of Spain on Trinidad, he died on the 11. August in London.
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Aretha Franklin
She was the Queen of Soul, sang as a child in the choir of their Baptist Church and was included years later as the first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her Hit “Respect” from the year 1965 became the anthem of the African-American freedom movement and the women’s movement. 16. August, died, the singer, 76 years to the consequences of a cancer disease.
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Burt Reynolds
“Burt Reynolds was one of my heroes,” tweeted Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he by the death of the actor on the 6. September learned. From 1962, Reynolds appeared for three years as a blacksmith in the TV Western series “gunsmoke” in 1966, he got his own Detective series, “Hawk”. He became famous in 1977 as the “Smokey and the bandit” and as a racer in “On the Highway all hell is let loose”.
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Charles Aznavour
His funeral resembled a state funeral. The whole of France watched as the President and Emmanuel Macron concealment of the artist in his home town of Lille, in front of the cameras. Charles Aznavour was one of the greats of the French Chanson. As a composer, he wrote a world classic, even for Stars such as Edith Piaf. On 1. October, the singer and actor has died at the age of 94 years.
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Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Caballé is considered one of the great lyric voices of the 20th century. Century and as the most universal Spanish Opera singer at all. She was a Diva, the other, was as Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Renata Tebaldi’s equal – both because of their vocal qualities as well as because of their technology. Caballé is on 6. October, died.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Movies like “last Tango in Paris”, “1900” and “The last Emperor”, created a Controversy that made him world-famous. Bertolucci was regarded as the last representative of film-makers, made in the 60s and 70s, the Italian cinema world-famous. For his life’s work he was awarded, among others, of the film festival in Cannes and Venice. He died on 26. November.
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Wilhelm Genazino
He was awarded the Büchner prize, and master of the laconic humour. Wilhelm Genazino employed in his works, with the Failure, in ever new variations. Born in 1943, he experienced as a child of the post-war period in Germany. His novels are often quirky stories, his characters “individualist repugnance,” says the author. He died on 12. December, at the age of 75 years.
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Amos Oz
Israel’s state formation, the six day and Yom Kippur war, the occupation of the West Bank – the Israeli author experienced first-hand. In his award-winning work, the personal and national trauma. As co-founder of “Peace Now” he also actively and tirelessly for peace in the middle East. 28. December, died, Amos Oz, at the age of 79 years.
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We mourn…
Dolores O’riordan
She was the distinctive voice of the Band, The Cranberries. Hits like “Zombie” and “Linger” shaped the Sound of the Nineties. The Cranberries disbanded in 2003, but came back later. A planned Tour of the Band had to cancel Dolores O’riordan 2017 due to health problems. The Irish woman died in January at the age of 47 years.
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We mourn…
Stephen Hawking
The Astro-physicist Stephen Hawking was an example of the will to live. The nervous disease tied him to the wheelchair; after a pneumonia in the middle of the 1980s, Hawking could no longer speak. He agreed, via a voice computer. Nevertheless, he was part of the pop culture, “Star Trek” and “Simpsons”. 14. March died, Stephen Hawking, at the age of 76 years.
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We mourn…
Milos Forman
The Czech-American Director, advanced into the country of his birth, the New-Wave cinema. After the Emigration to the United States, he gave Hollywood the classic “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” (1975) and “Amadeus” (1984), the most twelve Oscars local. Milos Forman died on 13. April.
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We mourn…
Philip Roth
Sarcastic, humorous, melancholic: With this style, and novels such as “The human stain” or “the plot against America,” wrote Philip Roth in the literary Olympus. He wrote the classics, but presented a new Bestseller. “Roth is the greatest writer of our time”, wrote in 2009 “the Guardian”. 23. May the author died at 85 years of age.
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We mourn…
Tom Wolfe
Writer Tom Wolfe, wore preferably white suits, and often a hat, he coined the reportage style of the “New journalism” and created with “the bonfire of the vanities” is a world bestseller. Wolfe was regarded as a keen observer of the everyday American life. He died on the 14. In may at the age of 88 years.
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We mourn…
Hilmar Hoffmann
With his call for a “culture for all” wrote Hilmar Hoffmann, the on 1. June passed away, history. He founded film festivals, cinemas, museums – and was head of the Goethe-Institut. Against his will he was forced to close due to the pressure to economise in his term of office, 30 Goethe-Institute. His commitment to bring the culture in all layers of society, is unparalleled in Germany.
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We mourn…
Dieter Wellershoff
Dieter Wellershoff is considered to be one of the most important writers of the post-war period. He wrote more than 40 novels, short stories, plays and Essays. He developed the “Cologne school of New realism”, he claimed, a way of writing that puts the “everyday life” in the center. 15. June, the choice of the Cologne at the age of 92 years died.
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We mourn…
V. S. Naipaul
As the British writer V. S. Naipaul received the 2001 Nobel prize for literature, called him the Royal Swedish Academy as a “literary circumnavigator”. Its themes of racism, post-colonialism and the uprooting of the people were. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in 1932 in Chaguanas in the vicinity of Port of Spain on Trinidad, he died on the 11. August in London.
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We mourn…
Aretha Franklin
She was the Queen of Soul, sang as a child in the choir of their Baptist Church and was included years later as the first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her Hit “Respect” from the year 1965 became the anthem of the African-American freedom movement and the women’s movement. 16. August, died, the singer, 76 years to the consequences of a cancer disease.
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We mourn…
Burt Reynolds
“Burt Reynolds was one of my heroes,” tweeted Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he by the death of the actor on the 6. September learned. From 1962, Reynolds appeared for three years as a blacksmith in the TV Western series “gunsmoke” in 1966, he got his own Detective series, “Hawk”. He became famous in 1977 as the “Smokey and the bandit” and as a racer in “On the Highway all hell is let loose”.
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We mourn…
Charles Aznavour
His funeral resembled a state funeral. The whole of France watched as the President and Emmanuel Macron concealment of the artist in his home town of Lille, in front of the cameras. Charles Aznavour was one of the greats of the French Chanson. As a composer, he wrote a world classic, even for Stars such as Edith Piaf. On 1. October, the singer and actor has died at the age of 94 years.
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We mourn…
Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Caballé is considered one of the great lyric voices of the 20th century. Century and as the most universal Spanish Opera singer at all. She was a Diva, the other, was as Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Renata Tebaldi’s equal – both because of their vocal qualities as well as because of their technology. Caballé is on 6. October, died.
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We mourn…
Bernardo Bertolucci
Movies like “last Tango in Paris”, “1900” and “The last Emperor”, created a Controversy that made him world-famous. Bertolucci was regarded as the last representative of film-makers, made in the 60s and 70s, the Italian cinema world-famous. For his life’s work he was awarded, among others, of the film festival in Cannes and Venice. He died on 26. November.
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We mourn…
Wilhelm Genazino
He was awarded the Büchner prize, and master of the laconic humour. Wilhelm Genazino employed in his works, with the Failure, in ever new variations. Born in 1943, he experienced as a child of the post-war period in Germany. His novels are often quirky stories, his characters “individualist repugnance,” says the author. He died on 12. December, at the age of 75 years.
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We mourn…
Amos Oz
Israel’s state formation, the six day and Yom Kippur war, the occupation of the West Bank – the Israeli author experienced first-hand. In his award-winning work, the personal and national trauma. As co-founder of “Peace Now” he also actively and tirelessly for peace in the middle East. 28. December, died, Amos Oz, at the age of 79 years.
At awards like the Oscars, rentals of the glamour part of soaked traditionally for a few moments of devotion to deceased greats of the industry. Also if you let the past year pass in review, you can be at the sight of those who have died, melancholic, although it is not the people one knew personally, probably. Your Work has touched us and millions of people Laugh or cry.
Who wouldn’t smile at the thought of Burt Reynolds ‘ research, in his role as the Bandit in “Smokey and the bandit”? The Comic book community mourned the loss this year of both “Spiderman”artist Stephen Ditko, as well as to its Creator Stan Lee. Stars like Ryan Reynolds, had appearance in his Film “Deadpool 2” Lee a Cameo, remembered the Comic-book idol.
Best seller and hit
Writer Tom Wolfe, wore preferably white suits, and often a hat, he coined the reportage style of the “New journalism” and created with “the bonfire of the vanities” is a world bestseller. Wolfe was regarded as a keen observer of the everyday American life, and died in may at the age of 88 years.
Dolores O’riordan succeeded with her Band, The Cranberries in the 1990s, a worldwide hit. “Zombie” was a protest song against the conflict in Northern Ireland, and remained the biggest success of the Band. After a suicide attempt, a bipolar disorder had been diagnosed in O’Riordan in 2013, in January of 2018, she drowned in a Hotel bathtub. The autopsy showed alcohol poisoning, with 3.3 per thousand. O’riordan was 46 years old.
Pioneers: indie rock, TV entertainment
The Name Richard Swift is less known, the musician and composer, had an extreme influence on the indie rock scene of the present. The Multi-Instrumentalist has played in Bands like The Shins and The Arcs and accompanied the Black Keys on Tour. At the age of 41, he died of the consequences of his alcohol dependency.
15 years was moderated by Dieter Thomas Heck, the “hit parade” in how he defined always into, “Zett…Dee…Eff!”, more than 20 years, he presented “melodies for millions”. In August of this year, succumbed to the stern at the age of 80 years, a long-standing lung disease.
At the age of 92 years, the French Director Claude Lanzmann has died. More than twelve years he had worked on the 1985 released documentary “Shoah”. The work on the genocide of the European Jews, Lanzmann is world famous, he renounced archive material and focused on the sign of the time in witnesses.
Shortly before the end of the year, on 28. December, died, the Israeli author Amos Oz. He was 79 years old. Oz was not only an award-winning writer – again and again he has acted also as a contender for the Nobel prize for literature – but also a tireless fighter for peace in the middle East.
With our photo gallery, we take leave of you and other great artists that died in 2018.