Coronation Street Blog: Ernst Walder, one of Coronation Street's original actors, has died

A guest blog post from @Starboisky who writes to let us know about Ernst Walder (Tahedl) who played Ivan Cheveski, Elsie Tanner's son-in-law in Coronation Street. Ernst passed away in September last year, and as it's Pride Month and Ernst was Tony Warren's lover, Starboisky wanted to let us know about Ernst's passing.

Starboisky writes: Manchester library has a copy of Tony's memoir 'I Was Ena Sharples' Father' in the reference section and in it he devotes a whole chapter to his adventures in Austria, detailing that he stayed with Frieda and Willi Gaberschick and their son Fritz in Judenburg.

Frieda was the sister of Ernst Walder (Tahedl) who played Ivan Cheveski, Elsie Tanner's son-in-law in Coronation Street, who Tony lived with on South Molton Street in London .

I've attached the two pages of Tony's book that reference this, below:

And after making contact with a neighbour in Austria I've found out that Ernst passed away in September last year. I've sent you the German version I received and the English translation I did through Google Translate, below:

I thought it may be a nice tribute for you to mention it on your blog as it is believed that Ersnt and Tony were boyfriends, and it is Pride Month.

His passing is documented here. https://www.wirgedenken.at/eintrag.xhtml?id=67200

Interesting points to add about Ersnt is that his character Ivan was one of Coronation Street's original twenty-one characters in 1960, with Ersnt recalling that Tony based Ivan on the fact that there were a lot of Polish people still living in Manchester who had fled to England during the Second World War.

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