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Yes, she is still recognized on the street. “But it has to be people who are over 50 years old. Every now and then we get into a very nice conversation. Back then, when we were 100 percent famous, it was rather exhausting,” says Eva Maria Klinger. By back then, the TV legend, who turns 80 tomorrow, means the years from 1967 to 1984, when the Viennese-born woman worked as one of the first announcers for the ORF.
“Was considered blonde and sweet”
It was June 27, 1967, when Klinger won the voice talent competition required for the job. “I was a nice, obviously relatively telegenic girl of 22. Soon I was always considered blonde and sweet. Of course, that bothered me because I thought I could think and talk too.”
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