Karl Moik

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Karl Moik (born June 19, 1938 in Linz , † March 26, 2015 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian television presenter and entertainer .

Life

Karl Moik grew up as the child of a single mother in Hallein near Salzburg. He didn't meet his father until he was five years old. After leaving school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker , but even as a schoolboy he had enjoyed entertaining others. Moik devoted himself to the piano and the accordion from an early age . In 1970/71 he completed speech training at the Salzburg Mozarteum .

Moik began to work as a toolmaker in his learned profession. He later worked as a representative of copiers and television antennas. Since he was drawn to television and show business, he traveled around the country as a member of the jazz trio Jolly Austrians in addition to his job . At that time he also tried his hand at interpreting folk songs .

A hobby Moik was the DXing of satellite television , for which several in the home garden satellite dishes were set up.

Since 1964 he was married to the Carinthian Edith. The two had two children.

Moik died on March 26, 2015 at the age of 76 in a Salzburg hospital, where he was being treated for kidney problems.

His grave is in the Oberalm cemetery near Salzburg.

Moik as a moderator

1973 moderated Moik for the ORF - Upper Austria in broadcasting the show Folk hit parade , which was an audience favorite soon. In the mid-1970s, the German ARD approached ORF. Together they looked for a format for a show with small talk and folk music. This concept was finally implemented in the Musikantenstadl , which has been broadcast on Austrian television since 1981 and also on German television from 1983. Moik took over the moderation, the show was supplemented from 1981 to 1991 by interludes of the "funny hias ". This is how Karl Moik became known to an audience of millions. Together with the Swiss television DRS , the Musikantenstadl was broadcast in co-production with ORF and ARD during prime time. Moik has also made several guest appearances abroad with the Musikantenstadl, including in South Africa and China . The Musikantenstadl also went on tour, mostly in German-speaking countries, without these events being recorded for television. On June 21, 2005, ARD and ORF announced the separation from Moik. The contract was not extended by two years, and the Musikantenstadl was occupied by Andy Borg from autumn 2006 .

In addition to the Musikantenstadl, Karl Moik also moderated the Austrian preliminary decision for the Grand Prix of Folk Music and, with his colleagues Carolin Reiber and Sepp Trütsch , the international event of the three countries.

Moik hosted the Silvesterstadl for the last time on December 31, 2005 . During the almost five-hour live broadcast, there were circulatory disorders in the brain , which caused Moik to feel exhausted and, following the broadcast on January 1, 2006, led to a fit of weakness. The then 67-year-old was brought to the neurological intensive care unit of the LKH Klagenfurt, which he was able to leave on January 9th.

From June to September 2006 Moik moderated the travel magazine Rund um die Welt on ORF-Radio Salzburg on Saturdays .

For indignation at Stalinist persecution made in November 2006, his statement in an interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt in which he parallels between himself and Stalin stated: "He [Stalin] was in school not the best. And he had to fight his way through many intrigues with hard work. "

His designation of Italians as "spaghetti eaters" in the Musikantenstadl broadcast from Vienna in 2004 also made waves. After a song by Patrick Lindner partly sung in Italian, Moik had said: "I invite you to Vienna, and what do you sing? About the spaghetti-eaters!" In a television program he explained this statement with the effects of narcotics, saying that he was not in control of his senses. Moik had three aortocoronary bypasses after a heart attack.

As a diabetic, he campaigned for the “Chance in Diabetes” foundation as an ambassador for lifestyle changes for type 2 diabetics.

Moik as a singer

In his show Musikantenstadl Moik also appeared as a singer. Well-known songs from him are yes, today we want to celebrate , every day, I need a little more , the little bit of happiness , it's all about money and hello, pfüat god and goodbye .

Moik as an actor

Recently, Karl Moik appeared more frequently as an actor. He made his television debut in 2000 as a coroner in the Tatort once a day on ARD , and in 2008 he played his next television role as mayor in the Degeto musical comedy “ Das Musikhotel am Wolfgangsee ”. In the summer of 2008 Moik also worked for the “Bastei Collection” in six feature films that Couchkino GmbH produced in cooperation with ZDF Enterprises. As part of the film series “The most beautiful love films of all time”, the first season was to be broadcast for the first time in 2009. Another six films should be made in summer 2009. Various editions of novels by Bastei-Lübbe-Verlag served as templates for the scripts .

Awards

In 2003, Moik was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Linz for his services to culture . In recognition of his services to Austria, he was also awarded the professional title of “Professor” in August 2004 .

In 2004 and 2007 he was awarded a folk music crown .

Fonts

  • Karl Moik - I didn't get anything for free. Autobiography, Ed. Ferenczy at Bruckmann 1997.

Web links

Commons : Karl Moik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ GMX Magazine
  2. ↑ courier: Servus, pfiat God and goodbye Karl Moik
  3. ↑ The press: Karl Moik is dead
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Karl Moik
  5. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/11/16/640049.html
  6. ↑ Celebrities: Stalin victims outraged by Karl Moik ( Memento from June 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chance-bei-diabetes.de
  8. ↑ Karl Moik is shooting in the Karwendel silver region ( memento from November 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.couchkino.com/unternehmen
personal data
SURNAME Moik, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian television presenter and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2015
Place of death Salzburg