Updated June 4, 2020, 9:50 a.m.
His “Polonaise Blankenese” could not be missing at any hit party for years. Now Werner Böhm aka “Gottlieb Wendehals” has died – in Gran Canaria, where he had recently moved from Hamburg.
The as “Gottlieb Wendehals“Well-known singer Werner Böhm is dead. This was confirmed by his management of the German Press Agency, citing his wife Susanne Böhm.” Image “she quoted as saying:” Werner is up Gran Canaria fell asleep peacefully. I am very sad.”
According to “Bild” information, he died on Tuesday night in his apartment in Gran Canaria – just three days before his 79th birthday. He went there according to “Bild” earlier this year Hamburg drawn.
Werner Böhm was a guest at the RTL jungle camp in 2015
The polonaise and the checkered jacket were his distinctive features. Böhm was known to an audience of millions under the stage name Gottlieb Wendehals. The trained decorator had his biggest hit at the beginning of the 80s with the hit “Polonäse Blankenese”, in which “the holes out of the cheese” fly again and again.
Böhm was also a guest at the RTL jungle camp – most recently in 2015 in the summer edition “I am a star – Let me back in!”. At that time there were candidates who had already participated in the regular jungle show “I’m a star – Get me out of here!” had participated. Böhm had participated in this show in the very first season in 2004.
Böhm was married to pop singer Mary Roos
Böhm was married to pop singer Mary Roos from 1981 to 1989. In 1995 he married Susanne Böhm. In the meantime the two are separated according to the “picture”. His girlfriend Helga found him lying on the bed with his eyes closed in his apartment in Gran Canaria on Tuesday, reports “Bild”. (ash / dpa)
Teaser picture: © picture alliance / dpa / Jens Kalaene
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