Lou van Burg
Lou van Burg ( born August 25, 1917 in The Hague, The Netherlands, † April 26, 1986 in Munich; civil Loetje van Weerdenburg, nicknamed " Mister Wunnebar " and "Uncle Lou" ) was a Dutch- German showman and entertainer.
Lou van Burg began his entertainer career in the 1950s as a singer and dancer in various Parisian nightclubs. His most famous hit title appeared in 1954 with Nicolo, Nicolo, Nicolino. He became one of the most famous masters of ceremonies and master of ceremonies in Germany.
A Menjoubärtchen and the exclamation Wunnebar its brand recognition.
First television appearances
His first television show in 1958 Every second a shilling, broadcast by the ORF, was a great success. Subsequently, he was engaged for the ARD Sing with me - play with me, but a prematurely aborted series.
Career at ZDF
After negotiations with the hesitant ZDF Lou moderated from 1964, the TV show The Golden Shot with gigantic success. Nevertheless, the station ended on July 11, 1967, the collaboration after his partner and manager Angèle Durand ( a wife named Julie in the Netherlands there was also ) of the BILD newspaper and several magazines reported that he and his assistant Marianne Krems a ratio have and this was already pregnant. The director Karl Holzamer said this, that not the private life, but the publication in all the tabloids had been decisive. Later, ZDF and Lou van Burg agreed on a compensation of 120,000 DM Lou divorced after 20 years of marriage to his wife and married Marianne - the couple had two children together.
Wim Thoelke wrote about this in his book Stars, colleagues and crooks - a kind of autobiography that the widespread history, ZDF have van Burg thrown out, do not agree, especially since this had no contract with the ZDF. Rather, the Swiss company Schmid Productions have produced the series in the ZDF contract. This company has also produced musicals and so long cuttings, once even 40 minutes of it housed in The Golden Shot, said ZDF still had to pay for the equipment. The spectators and ZDF were dissatisfied, what they had to in order to salvage the situation, separately, under the pretext of the affair by van Burg and Vico Torriani presented as a successor.
End of career
For the next nine years Lou had to focus on his side job as master of ceremonies at the circus Althoff, occur in shopping centers and butter rides. 1976 to 1983, he hosted again for ZDF: the mission vaudeville, variety shows ( in the international magicians, acrobats and show performers occurred ), from 1976, the Evergreen shipment We make music and 1983 match with Uncle Lou.
In the late 1970s, the then program director Frank Elstner brought him to the German radio program of Radio Luxembourg, where he every Sunday at noon (12 to 14 clock ), the show hosted Family Day with Uncle Lou live from the former Dreamland Park Bottrop- Kirchhellen of 1979.
This show was indeed only transmitted from the radio, but was used by RTL internally to the development and practice of live television transmissions. 1981-1984 he hosted the radio program in addition casino Parade live from the wine village in Dusseldorf.
He also had in the last years of his life even an engagement at the Cologne Millowitsch Theatre in the Boulevard comedy " Castle Rabeneck ".
Died in 1986 Lou van Burg from the effects of leukemia, in which he had suffered for many years. He was buried at the New South Cemetery in Munich.