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Journalism / Literary criticism / Biography / Poetry / Radio / Germany / Robert Musil / DDR literature

Karl Corino

1942 – 2026 · Broadcast journalist; literature critic; writer; poet; biographer; editor

“Musil's detective: Transit voice for DDR letters, no forged marble left standing.”

🕯 71 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 2

Acting / Television / Theatre / Culinary writing / Environmental advocacy / Germany

Andreas Hoppe

1960 – 2026 · Actor (theatre, film, television); author; environmental campaigner

“Ciao Kopper: heart on the right side.”

🕯 65 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Art / Satire / Cartooning / Illustration / Children's literature / Germany

Hans Traxler

1929 – 2026 · Painter; cartoonist; illustrator; satirist; children's book author; Pardon/Titanic co-founder

“He made Kohl a pear and Frankfurt laugh.”

🕯 91 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Politics / European Union / Germany

Klaus Hänsch

1938 – 2026 · SPD politician; MEP 1979-2009; President of the European Parliament 1994-1997; political scientist; author

“Former EP President who brought Klartext from Erkrath to Strasbourg and made Commissioner hearings public.”

🕯 47 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2

Radio

Frank Schambor

1971 – 2026 · Radio host, DJ, and event moderator

“The voice that woke Lower Saxony, as ffn-Morgenmän Franky.”

🕯 94 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Music

Christoph von Dohnányi

1929 – 2025 · Conductor; opera music director and intendant

“Precision, conscience, and the Cleveland sound.”

🕯 64 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2

Academia

Robert Alexy

1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopher; Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (from 1986); Senior Professor from 2019

“Made principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.”

🕯 82 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Business

Klaus-Michael Kühne

1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessman; honorary chairman and majority owner of Kuhne + Nagel; major shareholder of Hapag-Lloyd and Lufthansa; philanthropist (Kuhne Foundation)

“Logistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.”

🕯 34 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Film

Michael Mendl

1944 – 2026 · Actor (theatre, film, television); occasional voice / Horspiel / synchron; documentary advocate

“Beloved German character actor who gave Willy Brandt, a wartime general, and a pope their human faces.”

🕯 97 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 4

Sports

Eberhard Vogel

1943 – 2026 · Footballer (left winger / striker); football manager / coach; DFV youth coach; scout; trained locksmith; sports teacher (DHfK)

“Oberliga record man who said no to Santos and stayed East.”

🕯 49 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 5

Fashion

Karl Lagerfeld

1933 – 2019 · Fashion designer

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat.”

🕯 224 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 2