Max Schautzer

Max Schautzer (14 August 1940 – 29 January 2025) was an Austrian-born German radio and television presenter, who hosted popular long-running German series such as Immer wieder sonntags [de] and Alles oder nichts [de].

In 1965, he left for Germany and began working for the regional broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, invited by Hans Rosenthal to his radio series Spaß muß sein [de].

[1][2] He conceived and presented the series Pleiten, Pech und Pannen [de].

Schautzer moderated the Eurovision Song Contest for both German and Austrian viewers: 1979 for Austria and 1991 for Germany.

[3] According to a close friend, he was in a hospital in Cologne for a month,[1][3] before he died there on 29 January 2025, at the age of 84.