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"What a loss for Munich": Great mourning for popular actors

2020-12-02T18:21:23.376Z


"A pioneer on stage and in the media": Munich mourns the loss of a popular actor who has always defied his serious illness.


"A pioneer on stage and in the media": Munich mourns the loss of a popular actor who has always defied his serious illness.

  • Peter Radtke was a co-founder of the Munich “Crüpel Cabaret”.

    He has now died at the age of 77.

  • Radtke was born in 1943 with "glass bone disease";

    This fact could not prevent a busy acting career.

  • Numerous condolences can be found on the internet.

Munich - The

actor

and

writer

Peter Radtke

is dead. He died on the last weekend in November at the age of 77, as the

working group for disability and media

(

abm

)

, which he founded

, announced.

Munich: Peter Radtke died - mourning popular actor

Radtke was born in

Freiburg

in 1943

with the hereditary disease "Osteogenesis imperfecta" (

glass bone disease

).

He had been

dependent

on a

ventilator

for several years

.

After

studying

in

Regensburg

and

Geneva

, Radtke worked between 1977 and 1984 as a department head for the “handicapped program” at the Munich

Adult Education Center (VHS)

.

Until 2008 he was the managing director and chief editor of the

Disability and Media Working Group (abm)

.

“Crüppel-Cabaret” Munich: Peter Radtke was a co-founder

As an actor, Radtke appeared at

the Burgtheater

in

Vienna

and in the

Kammerspiele

.

In

Munich

* he made a name for himself as a co-founder of the satirical “Crüppel Cabaret”.

“What a loss for Munich, for inclusion and for people with disabilities”, can

be read

in one of the many

condolences

on

Twitter

.

Another user described Radtke as a “pioneer for inclusion on stage and in the media”.

"I am not fighting for the cause of the disabled, but for a hopefully better society, and then hopefully people with a disability will also benefit from it," said Peter Radtke.

The actor died on Saturday at the age of 77.https: //t.co/Y2zFZrlVlX

- BR - Culture (@BR_Kultur) November 30, 2020

In an

interview

with

Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

, the deceased explained the pragmatic approach to his

disability

: “I don't need to explain that I need help.

We often experience that people who have a slight disability often find it more difficult in everyday life because they want to pretend that they can still do everything themselves, but in fact they cannot ".

(left)

In November 2020, the Munich cultural scene was hit by more sad news: Director Erich Neureuther died of the consequences of a corona infection, DJ and radio presenter

Karsten Kiessling

succumbed to a serious illness at the age of only 49.

Source: merkur

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