Overview
- He was buried in a small private ceremony, according to SWR.
- He became widely known on television as Vermieter Rominger in the Bienzle installments of Tatort.
- Born in Tübingen on May 25, 1924, he first appeared on stage in 1945 and later held an early engagement at the Stuttgarter Volkstheater.
- He formed the radio duo Karle und Gottlob at the then Süddeutscher Rundfunk, where the street-sweeper sketches became a Saturday fixture.
- SWR Intendant Kai Gniffke praised his enduring influence, noting he worked into old age and most recently appeared for SWR with his wife in the film Laible und Frisch – Do goht dr Doig, while living at home in Wildberg with his family.