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Klaus Otto Nagorsnik died unexpectedly at the age of 68. “Asked – hunted” presenter Alexander Bommes reveals new details about what happened that week.
Hamburg – Some “hunters” from the ARD quiz show “Gefragt – gegegt” have now achieved cult status. Some stood out because of their friendly nature and their great knowledge and won their way into the hearts of viewers for years. The news of Klaus Otto Nagorsnik’s sudden death is all the more shocking. The “hunter” died at the age of 68. Moderator Alexander Bommes (48) has details about the librarian’s death.
ARD team shocked by the death of “Asked – Hunted” hunter Klaus Otto Nagorsnik
Show presenter Alexander Bommes has been there since the beginning and has accompanied the show participants since 2015. He was also hit by the news of Nagorsnik’s death on April 24, 2024. “I admired him and really enjoyed playing and laughing with him,” he says in the “NDR Talk Show”, which will be broadcast on May 10, 2024. He gives details that were not previously known. The “hunter” didn’t show up at the hotel that evening, but was in charge of recording the next day. According to neighbors, he fell asleep in his apartment with loud music.
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“For him, the show was a huge part of his life. “He loved the hunter job and we loved it too,” says Bommes. “We were deeply affected and thought about what we should do next,” he says, referring to the current week of production and the four days of filming still to come. “We came together, remained silent for him, then clapped for him, which is what he would have wanted. Then we continued for him too, but that was brutal,” says Bommes on NDR. By the way, the episode of the “NDR Talk Show” is a special one: Thanks to a new concept, it can be seen on several channels that evening and displaces other talk shows.
Alexander Bommes saw “Asked – Hunted” hunter Klaus Otto Nagorsnik as a role model
Since 2014, Nagorsnik has been one of the hunters on the ARD quiz show, which was still running on NDR at the time. A team of four candidates competes against one of the quiz professionals, called “hunters”. The trained bookseller was nicknamed “librarian”. He was discovered on television through his quiz club, as he once said. And yet the native of North Rhine-Westphalia hasn’t owned a television for decades. He considered the book medium to be more efficient, as he said in a rare interview with “Münster – people, stories and memories“ revealed. Until his retirement, he worked as a librarian at the Münster city library.
The suddenly deceased “Asked – Hunted” star Klaus Otto Nagorski (left) and show presenter Alexander Bommes. © IMAGO/Future Image/Eibner (photomontage)
Moderator Alexander Bommes has also come to appreciate Nagorski’s style and calls him “a role model of authenticity, education and joy of life”. The new season “Asked – Hunted” starts on May 13, 2024 on Erste. The final episodes with Klaus Otto Nagorsnik will also be shown there. Bommes’ TV colleague Vanessa Blumhagen (46) remembered her friend and “Breakfast Television” presenter Jan Hahn, who died at the age of just 47, on the third anniversary of her death. Sources used: >, focus.de