Olli Maier

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Olli Maier's grave in the Steigfriedhof in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt

Olli Maier , actually Reinhard Maier , after adoption Reinhard Prince of Saxony Duke of Saxony (born March 17, 1945 in Stuttgart , † in January 2011 in Berlin ), was a German actor and singer .

Life

Olli Maier became known through his engagement to the actress Helga Feddersen in the mid-1970s. Although he only stepped into the limelight alongside the Hamburger Ulknudel, he played small supporting roles in various television games , so u. a. an idiot accountant in the music show Plattenküche (1978), a demonstrator in the comedy Zwei Rebläuse auf dem Loreley or the clairvoyant Raimondo in the ZDF children's series Ein Fall für TKKG . He also had a few short appearances in the films Dirndljagd on Kilimanjaro and Sunshine Reggae on Ibiza .

As a singer he recorded the songs Hot Sausages with Salad and I Love Aerobics together with producer Frank Dostal in the 1980s . In 1983 he and Helga Feddersen recorded the duet I counting every hour without you , a German cover version of the Renée and Renato hit Save your love , and at a New Year's Eve gala in 1989 he sang the duet Die Lambada-Anstalt with her .

Shortly before her death he married Helga Feddersen, whereupon he was referred to in some newspapers as an inheritance stealer. In 1992 it became known that he was adopted by Erna Eilts (1921-2010), who was named Erina Princess of Saxony by marrying a grandson of the last Saxon king , against payment of a sum of 200,000 DM . Since then he has been called "Reinhard Prince of Saxony Duke of Saxony". Princess of Saxony's husband was the grandfather of Xenia Princess of Saxony .

In 1993 Maier published his autobiography Ich, Buhmann der Nation with the journalist Jürgen Worlitz .

Until he separated from his partner Bea Fiedler in 1995, Maier lived temporarily in Moritzburg near Dresden . Later he lived in seclusion on Mallorca as Reinhard Prince of Saxony .

After moving to Berlin, he died of a heart attack and was found dead in his apartment on January 6, 2011 after an emergency call from a neighbor who had not seen him for days. He was buried in the Steigfriedhof in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt next to his wife, Helga Feddersen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sz-online.de on July 25, 2006: Poor Princess Erina: Not even the adoptive son Olli came to the 85th
  2. ↑ shz.de on March 9, 2008: Always funny
  3. ↑ DNB 940433966
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Olli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Reinhard (maiden name); Saxony, Reinhard Prince of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 2011
Place of death Berlin