“The Last Playboy”
Rolf Eden died at the age of 92
Germany has lost its “last playboy”. Rolf Eden is dead.
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Rolf Eden is dead. The “last playboy in Germany” died last Thursday at the age of 92.
He was a true Berlin original who proclaimed himself “Germany’s best-known playboy” in his autobiography. Businessman Rolf Eden has passed away at the age of 92. “In gratitude for a long and fulfilling life we must now say goodbye”, quotes the “image” from a statement by the relatives. Accordingly, Eden died last Thursday (August 11).
Whether on talk shows, Berlin nightlife or just because: Eden liked to present himself as “Germany’s last playboy”. One of his trademarks was the mostly white suit, and he preferred to drive up in a Rolls-Royce. Eden lived up to his reputation when it came to his love life too – seven children by seven women.
Dramatic childhood and rise to become the nightlife king
After the National Socialists seized power, his Jewish family fled to Palestine in 1933. Eden was around three years old at the time. It was only 23 years later that he was drawn back to his German hometown of West Berlin.
There he blossomed into one of the big names in Berlin’s nightlife with his club Eden-Saloon, which was later followed by the Eden Playboy Club and the keyhole cabaret. In all his establishments, Eden knew: sex sells. Accordingly, the female employees were always scantily clad.
As early as the late 1950s (“Tomorrow you will cry for me”), Eden tried his hand at acting for the first time, taking part in more than 30 productions. He was last seen in a movie in 2016 – the Mira Thiel romantic comedy “Good to Birds”.