Alfred Biolek is dead

Alfred Biolek is dead The entertainer Alfred Biolek is dead. He died Friday morning. The former television host and talk show host fell asleep peacefully in his Cologne apartment, his adopted son Scott Biolek-Ritchie told the German Press Agency. Biolek had been in failing health for some time. He lived to the age of 87. Biolek was born in 1934 in Freistadt in what was then Czechoslovakia. In 1946, his family moved to Waiblingen near Stuttgart. After graduating from high school in 1954, Biolek first studied law and began working for ZDF in February 1963 as a legal advisor in the legal department. Shortly thereafter, he switched to editorial work. Biolek is considered one of the pioneers of talk and cooking shows in Germany. He was closely associated with WDR. Together with Rudi Carrell, for example, he developed the Saturday night show "Am laufenden Band," the most successful program of the 1970s. At the same time, he gained his first experience as a presenter on "Kölner Treff," and in 1978 he got his own show, "Bio's Bahnhof. One of the last great TV legends After that, he was a constant presence on German television for 30 years. He was his own brand with three letters: Bio. His era only ended in 2007 with the last episode of the cooking show "alfredissimo," in which he had spent many years standing at the stove with guests, chatting and tasting wine. "My time is over now," he said at the time. In 2010, he suffered severe skull injuries in a fall from a spiral staircase and fell into a coma. Since then, he lived quite secludedly in Cologne. Meanwhile, numerous people have expressed their condolences. For example, Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke) wrote on Twitter, "Alfred Biolek was a great personality and a wise voice in the public sphere. His broadcasts were refreshing and new! Thank you for many wonderful hours!"