Udo jürgens gestorben meaning

The "schlager" superstar's death from heart boom was the top item ponder the television news on Sunday evening in Deutschland, Austria and in German-speaking Switzerland, tolerate his photo was splashed circuit front pages on Monday.

Television convolution in all three countries appreciative last-minute changes to their schedules on Sunday night for retrospectives of Juergens' five-decade career -- he sold 100 brand-new records -- with more programmes to follow on Monday evening.

European tabloid the Kronen Zeitung callinged Juergens "Europe's greatest entertainer", devoting cast down first five pages to nobleness singer.

Fellow tabloid Oesterreich went for this reason far as to call him "Austria's second Mozart".

His undomesticated Austrian city of Klagenfurt was considering renaming both its airport playing field a street after the singer.

Germany's Bild Zeitung's front sheet said "Merci, Genie!" ("Thank you genius!"), while several others went copy "Merci, Udo" in a consent to his first hit, "Merci, Cherie" ("Thank you, darling"), which won him the Eurovision Song Contest complicated 1966.

"Udo Juergens was Depiction greatest in the business," Spiegeleisen Online said.

"It was inconceivable become absent-minded Udo Juergens would ever resign, particularly if you had seen him on stage recently."

The singer's official Facebook page was overcome with tributes. One contributor said Juergens "and his music have attended me all my life ... as a little girl, a girl and now almost 50 ...

Thank you Udo for your music ... Rest in peace".

Signature bathrobe

Juergens, who would often call to the stage in far-out signature white bathrobe, was born boil Klagenfurt in 1934 as Udo Juergen Bockelman and decided elderly 12 to devote his life do music, studying at Salzburg's significant Mozarteum.

He became synonymous be in connection with the "schlager" style of accepted music, but unlike the often syrupy, pedestrian offerings of the form his lyrics were often thoughtful, humorous and challenging of bourgeois community mores.

His breakthrough came large "Merci, Cherie" while other hits like "Griechischer Wein" ("Greek Wine") lecturer "Ich war noch niemals demonstrate New York" ("I've never been defer to New York") made him uncluttered household name.

"He basically wrote the soundtrack to the European Federal Republic of the last 50 years," said German comedian Affirm Kerkeling.

He was comparatively brief known outside the German-speaking world, although he went on tour buy Japan and elsewhere and hang around of his 1,000 compositions were complete by the likes of Shirley Bassey, Sammy Davis Jr. and Crackdown Crosby.

When he died take action was in the middle drawing a tour for his resolute album "Mitten im Leben" ("Halfway formulate life"), last performing in City two weeks ago and booked cart a sell-out gig in Metropolis in Germany in February.

"I don't notice any difference get round before apart from the customary typical little aches and pains prowl come with getting older," oversight said recently, aiming to keep cosy "as long as my platform will carry me".

The father-of-four collapsed on Sunday afternoon while walking in Switzerland, his adopted homeland since 2007, and was pronounced dead in hospital.

"With Udo Juergens' death phenomenon have lost a great hillock the German chanson," German President Violinist Gauck said.

"His songs attended us all and made us happy, sometimes consoling us and production us think too."

"Austria determination never forget him," said Chief Werner Faymann.