Karl Dall

Karl Bernhard Dall (German: [kaʁl ˈdal] , 1 February 1941 – 23 November 2020) was a German comedian, singer, and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye was caused by a congenital ptosis.

Family

Karl Dall was born in Emden, the son of a school rector and a teacher. Karl Dall had two sisters and a brother. He lived in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Dall married his wife Barbara in 1971. They had one daughter, Janina, who works as a stuntwoman in Canada.

Career

Karl Dall left school after the 10th grade and accomplished an apprenticeship as a typesetter in a print shop in the town of Leer, East Frisia.

Together with Ingo Insterburg, Jürgen Barz and Peter Ehlebracht, he founded in 1967 the comedy group Insterburg & Co. of which he was a member until it ceased to exist in the 1970s. Moreover, he created the TV show Musikladen for Radio Bremen and had since then worked for television broadcasters.

From 1983 until 1990, Dall used to appear in the hidden camera comedy show Verstehen Sie Spaß?, playing for example a chaotic film presenter or a telephone prankster.

In the German radio broadcast of Radio Luxemburg (RTL), he presented his own comedy show and was also among the first TV presenters of television channel RTLplus. There, he had his own talkshow named Dall-As which was aired from 19 January 1985 until the end of 1991. The concept was to irritate and provoke the guests. On 4 January 1992, he continued this show at the rivalling television channel Sat.1 as Jux und Dallerei.