A bronze statue on his favorite square in the garden of a café near
Münchner Freiheit in Munich is dedicated to his role on Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz (1983).
Worked as film critic at the Munich tabloid "Abendzeitung" until his TV
breakthrough in the 1970s.
Laconic Bavarian character actor, a popular television personality best remembered as would-be Casanova Monaco Franze in a 1983 miniseries.