Undertaker is chief carnival

cologne - The new chief of the Cologne Carnival is the 52-year-old funeral director Christoph Kuckelkorn. The social committee which organizes one of the largest carnivals in the world, it announced Tuesday.

Kuckelkorn comes from a family dynasty of undertakers. He played in his own words as a child between the tombstones. He 'lives in the present and displaces death, because only he who does not displace the death, can really celebrate. '

Kuckelkorn following Markus Ritterbach that led for the festival in Cologne twelve years.