Fred Fesl - The cabaret legend is dead
With his charming mix of wit and wisdom, accompanied by a Lower Bavarian dialect, Fredl Fesl brought generations of people to laugh: Now the Bavarian cabaret artist and singer-songwriter has passed away. According to his wife's confirmation to Bayerischer Rundfunk, he peacefully fell asleep on Tuesday morning (25. June). Fesl was 76 years old.
Born in Lower Bavaria, Fesl had not appeared on stage since 2006, and since 1997 he had been suffering from Parkinson's disease. In 2015, he published his autobiography "Ohne Gaudi is ois nix".
Many awards for Fredl Fesl
Fesl particularly shaped the cabaret scene in the 1970s and 80s with pieces such as "Königsjodler", "Taxilied", or "Fußball-Lied". His trademark at live performances were lengthy introductions before each piece, which were sometimes longer than the songs themselves. Fesl himself described his works as "Bavarian and melancholic songs", as was also the title of his fourth album from 1981.
The cabaret artist and musician received numerous awards, including the Bavarian Cabaret Prize in 2002 and the Bavarian Merit Order in 2022. Fesl lived with his second wife Monika in the Einöde Häuslaign in the upper Bavarian community of Pleiskirchen. He had two daughters.
- Fred, the Bavarian cabaret artist and singer-songwriter who hails from Lower Bavaria, found success in the 1970s and 80s with pieces like "Königsjodler", "Taxilied", and "Fußball-Lied", for which he received the Bavarian Cabaret Prize in 2002.
- Despite battling Parkinson's disease since 1997, Fredl Fesl, the renowned cabaret artist born in Bavaria, continued to perform until 2006 and also authored an autobiography titled "Ohne Gaudi is ois nix" in 2015.
- Fred, the celebrated cabaret artist who passed away peacefully in June at the age of 76, lived in the Einöde Häuslaign, an upper Bavarian community, with his second wife Monika and had two daughters.
