A peaceful ending like in a film: The Munich actor, dramaturge, author and musician Georg Maier died on New Year's Eve with his loved ones.
Munich - He was a Munich original to the last breath.
And it would not have suited the character of Georg Maier († 79) if he suddenly had to rely on the care of his
wife Raphaela (36) and daughter Georgia (47)
, although everything for it in his home in Solln was already there had been prepared - after returning from the hospital on New Years.
But the
actor, dramaturge, author and musician Georg Maier
simply spared himself a tough end on the stage of life, nobody wants to see something like that in the theater.
Georg Maier: He died in Munich when the new year was just 20 minutes old
On New Year's Eve, after four years of fighting cancer, his blood values deteriorated so quickly and dramatically that the curtain of life fell before the planned release from the right of the Isar - shortly after the midnight toll, when the new year was just 20 minutes old was.
He was accompanied by the loved ones of his life,
his wife Raphaela and his big daughter Georgia
, the smallest, Marie (2), was allowed to sleep peacefully at home over the death of her dad.
It was a peaceful, end, "like in a movie", describes his daughter Georgia the last breaths after the last words were spoken and the tension of life in that expressive face had been released.
Everything was done and done.
Munich: At the end of September, Georg Maier was still playing in his showpiece "The Grattler Opera"
At the end of September Georg Maier was still playing in his
showpiece “The Grattler Opera”
in an open-air performance.
And his novel “Das Milieu”, in which a prize boxer plays the leading role, has been planned for years and has just been finished for the publisher.
The former Iberl actress, cabaret artist Monika Gruber, wrote the foreword.
No outsider found out about the
cancer
- neither the ensemble nor best friends.
Georg Maier wanted to be treated completely at ease.
He did this for years - no diagnosis or prognosis could dissuade him.
Maier was strict with himself and - yes, this too - with his ensemble.
Because jokes absolutely need discipline and tact.
And a good text: rhythm and subtlety, dramaturgy and substance.
Georg Maier lived all of this himself with every fiber.
Georg Maier: Between a promising appearance and a certain tendency to be careless
As the son of a major restaurateur, he
grew
up in a
middle-class household
in
Grünwald
with employees, but also in the city center and the slaughterhouse district.
Father Otto had five wives - an American gave birth to Georg and she also gave him the great values of her homeland in the cradle: the pursuit of happiness and great freedom.
And so American casualness was just as much a part of Georg Maier's life as the Munich way of life - between a promising appearance and a certain tendency to be careless.
For Georg Maier, it needed accurately fitting suits and five made-to-measure shirts, and occasionally a top-class boxing match, even if life was otherwise only a chunk of bread
.
At 15 Maier was the host of a boazn on Kapuzinerstraße
and gambled away the biggest crooks himself.
For decades, life was in the fast lane, preferably in an American sled.
Georg Maier seduced and allowed himself to be seduced - his plays tell volumes about himself.
He left nothing out, except every form of philistine bourgeoisie.
“It couldn't just be any day on which he leaves this world,” says his wife Raphaela.
"I only had to turn 70 before I found the love of my life"
This January 1st was the 55th anniversary of Maier's opening of the Iberl in Solln, a small stage that turned into a large folk theater and where love was of course the main theme.
He once said to his daughter Georgia: “I first had to turn 70 before I found the love of my life.”
Raphaela Hinterberger, studied literature, trained soprano and actress, who he met nine years ago at the Iberl.
The 43 year age difference, they were never an issue.
Daughter Marie, who was born two years and four months ago, was their dearest wish.
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Proud father: For Georg Maier, little Marie was an “absolute dream child”.
© Markus Götzfried, fkn
Raphaela
will
continue to
run the
stage
- in the spirit of her husband. Once the lockdown is over, people should laugh again from the heart.
There is a rich repertoire with over 40 pieces by Georg Maier.
During his lifetime, the impresario determined what his final resting place should look like: on the Sollner cemetery with his feet in the direction of the Iberl stage. When exactly he will be put there is not yet certain.
