A carnival stronghold mourns for an icon. Cologne has lost a popular artist. Marie-Luise Nikuta is dead.
- A carnival icon is dead.
- Marie-Luise Nikuta died on Shrove Tuesday.
- The grief among fans and companions is great.
Cologne - She was a great artist and a popular motto queen at the Cologne Carnival , now she died at the age of 81. Marie-Luise Nikuta is dead. Nikuta was a singer, songwriter and composer. Every year she released the motto song for the Cologne Carnival. She was an exceptional person and also very popular in the gay scene, since she was said to have shown no fear of contact relatively early in the then very conservative carnival.
Marie-Luise Nikuta has died - Green politician: "Thank you for everything"
Nikuta achieved cult status through her performances and songs. And many express their grief on the Internet. Greens politician and member of the Bundestag and spokesman for social policy and queer policy Sven Lehmann commented on this. “A Cologne original says goodbye at the end of the session. THANKS for everything, for the many wonderful moments, for the songs that stay! ”Wrote Lehmann.
A Cologne original says goodbye at the end of the session THANKS for everything, for the many wonderful moments, for the songs that stay! ♥ ️https: //t.co/ORUTrXhLNR
- Sven Lehmann ️ (@svenlehmann) February 25, 2020According to Bunte, Express and the festival committee president Christoph Kuckelkorn quoted in it, Nikuta died on Shrove Tuesday. On the afternoon of the last day of the "fifth season", she fell asleep in a retirement home in Cologne and did not wake up.
Marie-Luise Nikuta dies - WDR changes its program
Kuckelkorn said to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: “At a time when it was far from being a matter of course, it made the carnival more feminine. It has conquered the stages of the region against some male resistance at that time and will be in the hearts of the jerks forever ”. Most of the media describe their most famous songs with the "streetcar song" or "E paar Grosche för Ihs".
Even Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) wants to change its program. "Marie-Luise Nikuta was a Cologne original. With her traditional motto songs and her diverse commitment, she embodied the essence of Cologne carnival: connecting people of all origins and ages. We thank her for unforgettable moments," said WDR director Tom Buhrow at presseportal.de. Now the film “Die kölsche Motto-Queen” from 2013 will be repeated on the night of February 28th to February 29th.
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