1. Freddy Quinn was born on Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl; 27 September 1931 and is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s.
11 Facts About Freddy Quinn
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Freddy Quinn's Irish family name comes from his Irish-born salesman father, Johann Freddy Quinn.
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Freddy Quinn's mother, Edith Henriette Nidl, was an Austrian journalist.
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Freddy Quinn was born in Niederfladnitz, Lower Austria, and grew up in Vienna.
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Freddy Quinn was sent to the US in May 1945 with a military transport.
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Freddy Quinn represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, with the atypical song, "So geht das jede Nacht", about an unfaithful girlfriend who dates many men.
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Freddy Quinn did not win, and the full results of the contest were never released so his placement is not known.
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Freddy Quinn's 1964 offering "Vergangen, vergessen, voruber" was another million-selling release.
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Freddy Quinn's popularity waned in the 1970s, but Quinn continued performing.
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Subsequently, Freddy Quinn performed on the stage in such diverse roles as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, the king in The King and I, and Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley's Aunt.
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Freddy Quinn was an accomplished circus performer who stunned television audiences as a tightrope walker, performing live and without a safety net.