Overview
- ZDF aired its remembrance special Adieu – Menschen, die wir nicht vergessen on December 30, honoring figures including Rolf Schimpf, Anita Kupsch, Helmut Thoma and Giorgio Armani.
- Entertainment site Promiflash recounts a high-profile July cluster with the reported deaths of Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Malcolm‑Jamal Warner, and notes later losses such as Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, James Ransone and Brigitte Bardot.
- Promiflash also reports that filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed in mid‑December and that their son Nick Reiner was arrested and is facing murder charges.
- Local outlet TAG24 published a Hamburg-focused roundup listing deaths of Hans‑Peter Korff, Nadja Abd el Farrag, Carlo von Tiedemann, Rolf Seelmann‑Eggebert, Wanda Perdelwitz, Hark Bohm, Reent Reins and Rolf Becker.
- Year‑end lists from tz.de and DerWesten highlight major international film and TV losses across 2025, including Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, David Lynch, Val Kilmer, Michelle Trachtenberg, Ingrid van Bergen and Udo Kier.