Karl Dall
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Germany
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comedian, singer and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye is caused by an inborn Ptosis
Ptosis (eyelid)
Ptosis is a drooping of the upper or lower eyelid. The drooping may be worse after being awake longer, when the individual's muscles are tired. This condition is sometimes called "lazy eye", but that term normally refers to amblyopia...
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Family
Karl Dall is the son of a school rector and a teacherTeacher
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. He married his wife Barbara in 1971. They have one daughter, Janina who works as a stuntwoman in Canada. Karl Dall has two sisters and a brother. He lives in Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Career
Carl Dall left school after the 10th grade and accomplished an apprenticeship as a typesetter in a print shop in the town of Leer, East FrisiaEast Frisia
East Frisia or Eastern Friesland is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony....
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Together with Ingo Insterburg, Jürgen Barz and Peter Ehlebracht he founded the comedy group "Insterburg & Co." in 1967 and was part of it until the end of the 1970s. He also created the series "Musikladen" for Radio Bremen and is since then working for television broadcasters.
From 1983 until 1990 he appeared in the hidden camera comedy show "Verstehen Sie Spaß?", taking roles for example as chaotic film presenter or performing telephone pranks.
In the German radio broadcast of Radio Luxemburg (RTL) he presented his own comedy show and he was also one of the first TV-presenters of the 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 of the show was to irritate and provoke the guests. On 4 January 1992 he continued this show at the rivalling television channel Sat.1 under the name "Jux und Dallerei".
From 1991 until 1993 he presented the game show "Koffer Hoffer" on the television channel Tele 5. In this show lost luggage, of which the owner could not be identied anymore, was auctioned to the candidates. Later he was member of the initial ensemble of the comedy show 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The spontaneous Karl Dall left the show after a few years due to differences with Rudi Carrell
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who planned his shows very carefully.
In September 2006 his autobiographic book named "Auge zu und durch" (Eye shut and through) was published.
Movies
- 1963: Winnetou 1. Teil
- 1964: Freddy und das Lied der Prärie
- 1967: Pension Clausewitz
- 1968: Quartett im Bett
- 1969: Der Bettenstudent oder: Was mach’ ich mit den Mädchen?
- 1970: Hänsel und Gretel verliefen sich im Wald
- 1974: Chapeau claque
- 1980: Panische Zeiten
- 1983: Gib Gas – Ich will Spaß
- 1983: Das verrückte Strandhotel/Dirndljagd am Kilimandscharo
- 1983: Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza
- 1984: Ein irres Feeling
- 1985: Drei und eine halbe Portion
- 1988: Starke Zeiten
- 1989: Die Senkrechtstarter
- 1999: Hans im Glück
- 2001: König der Winde
- 2003: Suche impotenten Mann für's Leben
- 2006: Rotkäppchen – Wege zum Glück
- 2008: African Race – Die verrückte Jagd nach dem Marakunda
Awards
- 1994: Preis der beleidigten Zuschauer (literally "Award of the offended viewers")
- 1999: Deutscher Comedypreis Ehrenpreis für sein Lebenswerk (honorary award for his lifework)