DEntertainer Alfred Biolek (Alfred Biolek) has passed away. His adopted son, Scott Biolek-Ritchie, told the German News Agency that he died on Friday morning. The former TV host and talk show host fell asleep peacefully in his apartment in Cologne. Biolek has been in health for a long time. He was 87 years old.
The lawyer’s son Biolek was born in Freestat (now the Czech Republic) in 1934 and spent an asylum childhood in a bourgeois Catholic family. After the war, the family fled to the West. Like his father, Biolake studied law and obtained a doctorate in law. Biolek’s career is unimaginable today: he served as legal counsel for the newly established ZDF in 1963, but soon transferred to the editorial department. When he first appeared in front of the camera, he gave a “tip to the driver.”
In 1970, he came to WDR in Cologne, where he collaborated with Rudi Carrell to develop the Saturday evening show “Amlauf Band”, the most successful show of the 1970s. At the same time, he gained his first temperance experience in “Kölner Treff”, and in 1978 he won his own show “Bio’s Bahnhof”.
Since then, he has appeared on German television for 30 consecutive years. His talk show “Boulevard Bio” ran alone for twelve years. His era ended in 2007 with the last episode of the cooking show “Alfredissimo”, in which he has been standing in front of the stove with guests for years, chatting and tasting wine. “My time is over,” he said at the time.
In 2010, he fell off a spiral staircase and fell into a coma, severely injured his skull. Since then, he has lived a rather lonely life in Cologne.
For my 80th birthday In 2014, FAZ talked about Biolek’s work: “Alfred Biolek outlined the main line of today’s TV and noticed that something went wrong. The conversation turned into a conversation, and the meeting on the stove turned into a kitchen struggle. The things that were perfectly shaped in Biolek were out of control.”
