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Daniel Küblböck
Daniel Küblböck in concert in September 2016
Born	Daniel Dominik Küblböck (1985-08-27)27 August 1985 Hutthurm, Lower Bavaria, West Germany
Disappeared	9 September 2018 (aged 33) Labrador Sea about 185 km north of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Status	Missing, presumed dead
Other names	Daniel K. Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2002–2018
Musical career
Genres	Pop
Instrument	Vocals
Musical artist

Daniel Dominik Kaiser-Küblböck (born 27 August 1985; disappeared 9 September 2018) is a German pop-singer and actor who achieved short-lived celebrity status from late 2002 until 2004 in the media coverage that surrounded the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS), the German version of Pop Idol, in which he came third. He was briefly promoted as Daniel K, but reverted to Daniel Küblböck as this name had already been trademarked.

Career

Daniel rose to stardom in late 2002 when he participated in the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS), which was a massive ratings hit. Despite his high-pitched voice not being considered good, he became very popular with the audience due to his special appearance and finished the show on third place.

After DSDS, Küblböck signed a contract with BMG. By June 2004 he had released four successful singles and one album. However, after appearing in Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! (the German version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!), his later releases proved less popular.

In August 2004, the motion picture Daniel – Der Zauberer (Daniel The Wizard), directed by Ulli Lommel, was released, which starred Daniel as a fictionalized version of himself. The film was critically panned and is now regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and also bombed at the box office, which marked the end of his popularity as a media star.

He was voted by the viewers of the German Tabloid TV channel Pro7 as the most annoying personality of 2003 and the second most annoying person in 2004.

In 2005, he appeared in the sixth season of the German version of Big Brother, and in 2015, he took part in the eighth season of the German version of Let's Dance, where he finished sixth, together with his dancing partner Otlile Mabuse. In 2013, he wanted to participate in the German national final for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest with his new song Be A Man, but was rejected by the jury.

Personal life

Daniel Küblböck had four siblings. He had German and Italian ancestors. Küblböck completed his Hauptschule education in 2001. His older brother Michael, who was described as a neo-Nazi in German tabloids, died on 3 January 2013 in Berlin due to a heroin overdose. They had not had any contact for many years prior to Michael's death.

In 2010, he came out as homosexual for the first time, after previously describing himself as bisexual.

On 24 February 2004, Daniel Küblböck caused a car crash with a truck, which received nationwide media attention. He suffered serious injuries. Küblböck was fined €25,000 and sentenced to eight hours of community service for driving without a license.

Entrepreneurial activity

Küblböck invested the proceeds from his album Positive Energie amounting to around one million euros in a solar plant in Lower Bavaria, which brought him high profits. In September 2003, he launched a perfume line for boys and girls in three fragrances under his name. From 2005 to the end of 2013, he was managing director of the sales company Positive Energie GmbH Daniel Küblböck, with which he marketed his person. It was deleted from the German Trade Register in 2016.

2018 disappearance

Küblböck has been missing since 9 September 2018. He was on a private trip from Hamburg to New York City on the cruise ship AIDAluna off the coast of Newfoundland. On one with "Artist. Actress. Transexual" unverified Instagram account, he had published selfies in women's clothing during the voyage.

According to the cruise company Aida Cruises, a passenger jumped overboard around five o'clock in the morning (local time). The Canadian Coast Guard then launched a search operation. The company confirmed in a press release that the missing person was Daniel Küblböck.

The site is located about 185 km north of St. John's in the Labrador Sea. The water temperature in the area was about 10 °C. In addition to the AIDAluna, the cruise ship MS Zuiderdam also participated in the search.

On September 10, 2018, the Canadian Coast Guard stopped the search because the maximum survival time in cold water was too short to save him. On September 11, Küblböck's family announced on the official website their mourning for their son Daniel and found that the hoped-for a "great miracle" of a rescue had not come true. Under German law, a person missing on sea can be declared dead after six months.

In the weeks before the cruise, according to his father, his environment had noticed a sudden change of character and psychological problems at Küblböck and heavily tried to prevent him from making the journey. According to a passenger that resided in the neighboring cabin, Küblböck had called himself Dana, wanted to be recognized as a woman and was heard talking to himself, screaming and kicking. Some passengers also recalled him wearing women's clothes.

DSDS performances

• Audition: "Proud Mary" (Tina Turner)
• Top 30: "Papa Don't Preach" (Madonna)
• Top 10: "Another Day in Paradise" (Phil Collins)
• Top 9: "Unchained Melody" (The Righteous Brothers)
• Top 8: "Everytime" (The Flames [de])
• Top 7: "Tragedy" (Saturday Night Fever)
• Top 6: "99 Luftballons" (Nena)
• Top 5: "My Way" (Frank Sinatra)
• Top 4: "Dancing Queen" (ABBA)
• Top 4: "Night Fever" (Bee Gees) – bottom 2
• Top 3: "Oh, Pretty Woman" (Roy Orbison)
• Top 3: "Born to Be Wild" (Steppenwolf) – eliminated

Albums, singles, and DVDs

Albums

Singles

DVDs

• My Life Is Magic (2004)
• Live on PE Tour 2003 (2004)
• Jazz Night (2007)
• Back to the Roots (2008)
• Jazz Meets Blues... wenn zwei sich verlieben (2009)
• Schrebergarten Berlin (2011)
• Diez años Kúblbóck – Ich versteh’ nur Spanisch – Live (2013)

As member of DSDS allstars – season 1

As member of "4 United"

(project with Gracia Baur, Nektarios Bamiatzis and Stephanie Bruckmeyer)

Filmography

Films

• Daniel – Der Zauberer (Starring)
• Crazy Race II (Minor role)

TV Series

• St. Angela (Guest appearance)

Bibliography

• Küblböck, Daniel in collaboration with Julia Boenisch (2003). Ich lebe meine Töne. Munich: Random House, 223 pages. ISBN 3-8090-3021-X.
• Küblböck, Daniel (2007). Daniel Küblböck – My Way: Konzertbildband August 2005 bis Dezember 2006. Positive Energie GmbH, 103 pages.

Notes

1. "Daniel Küblböck weiter vermisst – Aidaluna setzt Reise fort." In: Der Tagesspiegel, 9 September 2018, accessed 9 September 2018.
2. ^ "Neonazi-Bruder von Daniel Küblböck ist gestorben". Die Welt (in German). 4 January 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
3. "Küblböcks Herz "schlägt für Jungs", nicht für Uschi". queer.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-09-09.
4. Daniel Küblböck ist Ökostrom-Millionär. In: spiegel.de, 2. April 2011.
5. Duften wie Küblböck Spiegel-online, 25. August 2003, accessed 18 September 2018.
6. Positive Energie GmbH Daniel Küblböck, Dachau. North Data, accessed 15 September 2018.
7. Die letzten Bilder vor seinem Verschwinden? In: n-tv.de, 10. September 2018.
8. "Daniel Küblböck auf Kreuzfahrtschiff vermisst". spiegel.de. 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2018-09-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |deadurl=, |day=, and |month= (help)
9. AIDAluna: Daniel Küblböck wird auf Kreuzfahrtschiff vermisst. In: abendblatt.de, 9. September 2018.
10. Pressestatement. Pressemitteilung von AIDA Cruises, 9. September 2018.
11. "Daniel Küblböck bei Kreuzfahrt vermisst: Sprung über Bord?". augsburger-allgemeine.de. 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2018-09-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |deadurl= (help)
12. Küstenwache stellt Suche nach Küblböck ein. In: faz.net, 10. September 2018.
13. "News – Daniel bleibt vermisst..." daniel-kueblboeck.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-09-12.
14. Markus Brauer (12 September 2018). "Wie und wann kann ein Vermisster für tot erklärt werden?". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 28 September 2018.
15. "Überwachungs-Video: Zeigt es Daniel Küblböcks Sprung von der Aida?" (in German). tz.de. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
16. "Küblböcks Kabinennachbar erhebt schwere Vorwürfe". t-online.de. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
17. "Daniel Küblböck: Hier sehen Sie exklusiv sein letztes öffentliches Foto an Bord – es entstand durch Zufall". tz.de (in German). 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
18. ^ "Daniel Küblböck – Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
19. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discographie Daniel K." austriancharts.at. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2010-09-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
20. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discography Daniel Küblböck". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
21. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Daniel Küblböck; 'Positive Energie')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
22. "Was macht eigentlich...? – Poparazzi". New.de.music.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
23. "4 United – Music Charts". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
24. Steffen Hung. "4 United – Don't Close Your Eyes". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 2010-09-02.

External links

• Official Homepage of Daniel Küblböck
• Daniel Küblböck at IMDb

• 1985 births
• Living people
• People from Passau (district)
• German pop singers
• German male singers
• English-language singers of Germany
• German autobiographers
• Deutschland sucht den Superstar participants
• Bisexual men
• Bisexual musicians
• LGBT musicians from Germany
• LGBT singers
• German male writers
• German people of Italian descent
• People lost at sea
• Missing people
• 2010s missing person cases