German TV legend
“Starparade” and breakfast television: moderator Rainer Holbe died
Rainer Holbes ZDF show “Starparade” was a street sweeper in the 1970s. Holbe later built German private television. Breakfast television was completely new at the time.
Rainer Holbe was one of the best -known television faces in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s: Now the crowd favorite and moderator have died at the age of 85.
Holbe died on August 15 at home in Frankfurt am Main with his family, as his daughter of the dpa news agency said.
Millions of spectators are still known as the moderator of the ZDF series “Starparade”. The music show – initially broadcast in black and white – Run from 1968 to 1980 and was one of the greatest quota hits of the second German television at the time.
Bandleader James Last had his very first “Starparade” in the first “Starparade” and accompanied almost all guests with his orchestra to the last “Starparade” edition. Sizes such as Barry Manilow, Abba, Neil Diamond, T.Rex and Frank Sinatra performed.
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Live reports in the morning after the fall of the Berlin Wall
In the 1980s, Holbe was one of the pioneers of German private television. At the TV station RTL – Back then RTLplus – he was one of the makers from the very beginning. With a wafer -thin lead over Sat.1, RTL then went on the air with the format of breakfast television, which was still unknown in Germany at the time. Later, Holbe became the flagship for years.
Holbes RTL talk show “Die Woche” received the Grimme Prize “When the wall in Berlin fell on November 9, 1989, we were the first television station to report live from Berlin the next morning,” Holbe remembered 2020 in an interview with the “Frankfurter Rundschau”, for which he once wrote.
Rainer Holbe had a soft spot for supernatural
The journalist and writer also had a soft spot for paranormal events. At RTL he led through the “Incredible Stories” series, at Sat.1 he presented “fantastic phenomena”. In these formats, he looked for seemingly paranormal processes for scientific explanations. The spectrum ranged from symptoms of Mary to UFOs.
Holbe also wrote books: With the work “Cut creatures – the secret powers of the animals and plants”, he campaigned for a new form of partnership between all living things of the planet.
Transparency note: The star is part of RTL Germany.
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Source: Stern
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