Otto Höpfner (moderator)

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Otto Höpfner (born November 6, 1924 in Mainz , † January 31, 2005 in Paris ) was a German radio and television presenter .

After his apprenticeship as a butcher and a short job in his parents' company, Otto Höpfner switched to the entertainment industry. He took singing and piano lessons, performed at the Mainz Carnival and in 1952 won an announcement competition of the Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) . From 1952 he presented the " Frankfurter Wecker " on the radio , with which he achieved great popularity. So in 1957 he became the presenter of the popular TV show " Zum Blauen Bock ", a virtual dining room, into which he invited small talk guests. At the end of the 1950s he was the first host of this program to be one of the most famous TV stars in Germany. Because of a fee dispute with the HR he gave the show in 1966 at Heinz Schenk from what he later called a big mistake. After a short interlude at WDR , he took on a program similar to the Blauer Bock called “ Stelldichein beim Wein ” at ZDF . His new broadcast was unsuccessful and was then canceled after thirteen broadcasts. Höpfner was fired so that he had to end his television career in 1969.

He then worked as a conférencier at fashion shows, performed at public festivals, coffee trips and company parties, did cabaret and acted in theater .

In 1972 he briefly returned to television: he headed the Mainz television carnival session Mainz as it sings and laughs ; this attempt to introduce elements of contemporary entertainment culture into the television carnival, however, met with rejection from critics and the public.

Höpfner spent his twilight years in the community of Wilhelmsfeld in Baden-Württemberg. He was also buried there.

Höpfner was a passionate wine drinker; He didn't like the Frankfurt Äppelwoi , always praised in the Blauer Bock .

Literary works

  • Otto Höpfner: My stammered works , Mainz 1953
  • Otto Höpfner: We're in a good mood , Autodienst Hermani, Privatdruck Druckerei Johannes Weisbecker, Frankfurt am Main, around 1955.
  • Otto Höpfner: Höpfner's cheerful home cooking: Poems from the Blauer Bock , Kranich-Verlag, Berlin, 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Höpfner - the first innkeeper ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on the website of the Hessischer Rundfunk on September 8, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  2. ↑ http://www.fernsehlexikon.de/429/mainz-wie-es-singt-und-lacht/ Fernsehlexikon, accessed on March 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Höpfner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2005
Place of death Paris