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Mourning the TV legend – even the Austrian President speaks up

For 35 years, Sepp Forcher gave the Austrian landscape and its folk music a format on ORF. Now the presenter legend has passed away at the age of 91.

Salzburg – Austria mourns a true folk culture legend. Only about three weeks after his wife Helene found her last rest, Sepp Forcher died on Sunday at the age of 91 in Salzburg. The ORF reports on this. Born in South Tyrol, he was best known for his television series “Klingendes Österreich”, of which he hosted an impressive 200 pieces.

Austria: mourning for ORF legend – Sepp Forcher is dead

His last broadcast of “Klingendes Österreich” appeared on ORF in spring 2020. “200 programs – what more could you want?” Was how he began his anniversary edition. After two hours, in which each federal state including South Tyrol was presented in detail and typical folk music * played, he finally thanked all the employees of the program: “The researcher is only the top of a mountain, the base of which is a large family.”

Sepp Forcher und seine Ehefrau Helene.

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Sepp Forcher and his wife “Helli” were married for 65 years.

The mission of the show was to make the audience happy. “And that is what we have tried hard for 35 years,” says Forcher. According to ORF, the reason for his withdrawal was on the one hand his old age and on the other hand the serious illness of his wife “Helli”. She finally died at the end of November 2021. Only three weeks later, she was followed by Sepp Forcher, with whom she was married for 65 years. A specific cause of death is not mentioned. But not only the TV industry, also the music industry has to lament the death of a true rock legend *.

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In an interview published on Wednesday in the magazine Servus in Stadt und Land, Forcher should speak about his wife according to the standard. “My last longing is that Helli and I don’t have to be apart for too long. And that I can enjoy the days that I still have, ”the 91-year-old is quoted as saying. His wish came true.

In addition to the various ORF * officials and state governors, the Austrian Federal President also spoke up. He writes on Twitter: “With Sepp Forcher, a TV legend is saying goodbye. He unpretentiously brought the most diverse facets of Austria & South Tyrol closer to the audience. “He told about the people who presented the landscapes and cultural subtleties. Van der Bellen said his sympathy goes to Forcher’s family.

Austria: Sepp Forcher went from being an innkeeper to an ORF legend

Forcher’s career began anything but typical. After he came to Salzburg with his family from South Tyrol at the age of 10, he initially helped his parents run an alpine hut and worked on the construction of the Oberwalderhütte on the Großglockner, before he finally became a host himself.

In the 1970s he leased an inn in the city of Salzburg, where he met ORF employees, the broadcaster said in a broadcast. After a few initial programs in which he appeared as a mountain climber with a great interest in art and culture, he finally made his breakthrough in 1986 with the format “Klingendes Österreich”.

Forcher decided the end of the collaboration himself, according to ORF. “I don’t need to let anyone tell me, ‘Sepp let it stay, it’s enough’. Sepp says that to himself. And not in the sense of regret, but full of joy that I have just managed to bring this together 200 times, ”the broadcaster quotes him. To put it in his own words: “Thank you for everything and Pfiat ‘Gott beinand’!” (Mef) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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