Thomas Gottschalk celebrates its 75th birthday: Party rises by the sea – and many celebrity greetings

How does Thomas Gottschalk celebrate his 75th birthday this Sunday? With a touching and funny one in which he listens to prominent well -wishers worldwide and comments on their greetings. You can see Günther Jauch, Robbie Williams, Dieter Hallervorden, Barbara Schöneberger, Michael Bully Herbig, Jon Bon Jovi, Uschi Glas, Ralf Moeller, Mike Krüger, Frauke Ludowig and Udo Lindenberg.

The British singer Robbie William thanks for “all the memories” and that Gottschalk, as a great host, took him so warmly on his show (“Wetten, dass ..?).

And while actress Uschi Glas charmingly assures that the 75th birthday “does not hurt”, she has already experienced it, her colleague Dieter Hallervorden is confident: “It is not bad to be 75 – it is only bad if you don’t.” Singer Udo Lindenberg does not take his hat off to the birthday greeting, but at least his glasses lose weight – and is looking forward to the 100th birthday in 25 years.

The fact that Thomas Gottschalk has planned an entire birthday weekend must be followed on Instagram, at least in excerpts. With family and friends we went to the North Sea island of Sylt. On site, Oliver Pocher moderated the event, which was already taking place on Saturday. Son Roman Gottschalk had come from the USA.

“If you fly to Sylt with the Gottschalk family … and the moderator celebrates his 75th birthday on Sunday … and Thomas lets it go back before”, which she shows together with the jubilee, his wife Karina and his son Roman from first marriage and daughter at the airport. The hashtags are promising: “#partytime #ssylt #birthdayweekend #family #love”. The post can also be seen on Gottschalk’s account.

by talking about a “birthday party”, in which the moderator celebrates the countdown to his 75th at midnight with a lot of warmth … with friends, family and colleagues “.

Alessandra “Sandy” Meyer-Wölden, the ex-wife of Oliver “Olli” Pocher, was also invited. The latter had an important task at the celebration: he “moderated the evening very funny”, in which the Zanzibar restaurant is also called. , because “Günther Jauch, also very funny” “Olli once snatched the microphones to say”.

Shortly before his 75th birthday, Gottschalk has now drawn a line. In the RTL show “Because you don’t know what happens”. “There is always a moment when you can say: that was it for me on Saturday evening,” the moderator began and then added: “And this moment came for me today.”

According to Gottschalk, he will be 75 years old next week, “and that is the point for a moderator where you should say: you take yourself out of yourself.” In allusion to the new Pontifex Leo XIV, who is 69 years old, the TV legend continued: He always said that if the Pope is younger than me, it was about to do. However, he has not yet completely disappeared from the screens: at the beginning of December, Thomas Gottschalk is said to appear in a farewell show.