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“Thank you so much, Dad – for everything” Daughter gives moving speech for Mario Adorf (95†)

May 2nd, 2026, Bavaria, Munich: Adorf, who died on April 8th at the age of 95, will not be buried in the Bavarian capital, but in St. Tropez. Adorf's widow Monique Faye comes from southern France. The couple lived in Paris, and Adorf also died there.

Stella Adorf, daughter of the late Mario Adorf, speaks during the funeral service for invited guests in the St. Michael Church.

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Family and friends say goodbye to a legend!
For decades, Mario Adorf was one of the greats of German film. Now his companions say goodbye to him in the city that, along with Paris, was also his home.

Iris Berben gives a eulogy for Mario Adorf (†)

Relatives, colleagues and companions said goodbye to Mario Adorf in Munich. The actor died in France on April 8th at the age of 95.

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His colleague Iris Berben began her eulogy in St. Michael's Church with the words “Oh, dearest Mario.” “For me you have always been an accomplice of art, an accomplice of life,” she said. In his words, her colleague Axel Milberg remembered a lunch with Adorf and his wife Monique in Paris at the end of 2024.

Mario Adorf receives the German Television Prize for his life's work.

Mario Adorf was 95 years old.

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Adorf's publisher Helge Malchow read out a short story that the actor and writer had written shortly before his death. And his manager Michael Stark quoted Adorf's own farewell words: “Only when the time has come do we realize that we have thought ourselves immortal all our lives,” the 95-year-old recently wrote – and that he wanted to accept the end without complaining and without saying: “Already? Why? It was so beautiful.”

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