Joachim Fuchsberger
| Joachim Fuchsberger | |
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Fuchsberger in 2008.
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| Born |
11 March 1927 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Died | 11 September 2014 (aged 87) Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany |
| Cause of death | Multiple organ failure |
| Other names | "Blacky" Fuchsberger |
| Occupation | Actor, television host |
| Years active | 1953–2013 |
| Spouse(s) |
Gitta Lind (1951–1953) (divorced) Gundula Korte (1954–his death) (1 son) |
Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈfʊksbɛrɡɐ]; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German-Australian actor, television host, lyricist and businessman best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (always playing one of the good guys, often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard). In the English-speaking world, he was sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger.
Fuchsberger was born in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart, and was a member of the obligatory Hitler Youth. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was trained as a Fallschirmjäger, combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded. He was captured in a hospital in Stralsund by the Red Army and came into Soviet captivity and later in American and British captivity. Because of this turbulent time of his youth on the Eastern front, he could never make a school diploma. In 1946, he worked as a coal miner for the British in Recklinghausen. His nickname Blacky, which has been incessantly used by the media, hails from that time.
After his release, he worked as an engineer for typesetting and printing machines in the family business and later in a publishing house in Düsseldorf. In 1949, he was advertising manager of the German Building Exhibition in Nuremberg. From 1950 to 1952, he was spokesman at the radio station in Munich and newsreel spokesman. In 1951, he married the pop singer Gitta Lind, from whom he divorced after two years. In 1954 he married the radio technician and actress Gundula Korte (born 24 March 1930), with whom he has a son. In the same year he had his breakthrough playing "Gunner Asch" in the three-part war film 08/15 (film series), based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst.
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