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Udo Walz (archive): The star hairdresser was 76 years old
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Udo Walz was known as a star hairdresser, but also through numerous media appearances.
Correspondingly great is the dismay over his death among prominent companions.
The former "Bunte" boss Patricia Riekel called Walz her "very best friend", saying that he was generous and generous.
TV presenter Birgit Schrowange wrote on Instagram about a photo shared with the hairdresser that Walz had left much too early: "You will be absent, I will always remember the nice encounters with you."
The TV duo Joko & Klaas also said: "It is with great dismay that we thank you, dear Udo, for all the laughs, the good and even better moments that we were able to experience with you."
The television satirist Oliver Kalkofe wrote on Twitter that it was very sad news.
Walz was "wonderfully self-deprecating, charming and funny."
“Have a good trip, Udo.
Make the angels' hair beautiful! "
The Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller also paid tribute to Walz.
"With him, our city is losing a real unique Berlin specimen with heart and soul," said the SPD politician.
“His profession was his calling, he lived for the hairdressing trade.
His style could not have been a better match for Berlin - classic and calm. «With this, Walz had met the taste of many famous and less famous personalities who visited one of his hairdressing salons for decades.
Walz died that Friday at the age of 76.
"Udo fell asleep peacefully at twelve o'clock," his husband Carsten Thamm-Walz had told the "Bild" newspaper.
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