“Pound guy” Ottfried Fischer celebrates his 70th birthday

“In Passau, everyday life in a wheelchair was too difficult”says Ottfried Fischer. Therefore, the German actor and cabaret artist, who is in a wheelchair due to his advanced Parkinson’s disease, moved again with his wife Simone Fischer shortly before his 70th birthday. The couple now lives in Gauting near Lake Starnberg. The star of series like “The Bull of Tölz” and “Pastor Brown” is celebrating his big birthday today.

In June, Ottfried Fischer appeared with his wife at the opening of the Munich Film Festival. The TV star’s public appearances have become rare. It used to be hard to imagine television without the native of Lower Bavaria. He started his career in the 1980s. Director Franz Xaver Bogner hired him for the series “Somehow and anyway” and “To freedom”. Then it happened in quick succession. From the 1990s onwards he entertained his audiences with his cult cabaret show “Otti’s slaughterhouse”. Fischer was in “Affectionate slobs” and “Go Trabi Go” to see. And in 1995 he slipped into the role of the grumpy inspector Benno Berghammer for the first time. “The Bull of Tölz” became the role of his life. His personal highlight is another: “Somehow and anyway”. This is also the series that he is asked about most often, as he says.

In 2008, the cabaret artist made his Parkinson’s disease public. He joked: “Don’t worry, I don’t make any shaking rhymes!” But even if he didn’t let his humor take away from him, the illness changed Fischer’s life.

The award-winning actor hosted the show for the last time in November 2012 “Otti’s slaughterhouse” on Bavarian television. Almost a year later the series took place “Pastor Brown” set. After that, there were no role offers.

About his retirement from stage and television, he said he had made more than 150 films. “Then you know what you have done. It was a life on the wheel.”

Lots of headlines

Success and celebrity also brought with it plenty of private headlines. The separation from his wife, with whom Fischer has two daughters, caught the attention of the media. His relationship with his current wife, Simone, brought him new happiness. Last year he said in an interview that Simone was his best friend. “She has so many good sides that I wouldn’t know what I would do without her.”

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