- Gottschalk autobiography. Entertaining and honest words of Thomas Gottschalk
- On May 18, the entertainer celebrates his 65th birthday
- “Autumn Blonde” published by Heyne – 368 pages – 19.99 €
When Thomas Gottschalk (64) says that is still always something special. When he went to work at Radio that he had “just start talking.” And he makes in this book, he writes in his now published autobiography “Autumn Blonde” (Heyne, 368 pages, 19.99 euros). The land shall be his gratitude that “you have left me nearly forty years in your living room.”
And what the reader gets to you? On the one hand exactly what you would expect: open, entertaining and honest words presented. On the other hand, can be a thoughtful Gottschalk some readers have also shares his thoughts, in the second part of the book he deals with topics such as money, family and faith. Even if modesty is not likely the greatest virtue of the entertainer, he questions but also its settings and performance critical: “On the eve I failed, as a casting juror I was miscast. I do not consider both as a disaster, “Gottschalk shows in his book just as we know him. As cheerful nature, which despite all its enumerated successes manages not to appear arrogant
.” Wetten, dass .. ? “
A great place in his autobiography, of course, Gottschalk” Wetten, dass ..? “reserved. As the “most important moment” of his career, he describes the day when he was appointed to a Munich hotel where Frank Elstner asked him “without hesitation” if he could imagine to take over the show. “Sure,” he had “just straightforward” replied, “but it could at the same time not believe” that he was “at the high altar of the German television entertainment to hold the celebration service” should.
And he also told many anecdotes from his “Wetten, dass ..?” – Time: About the fraud with the crayon bet that he “may mean, but the idea extremely funny” found its extravagant wardrobe (“I just wanted to be different and look than the rest”) and the many stars that he had on the show. “An encounter of the third kind” are, for example, the performances of Michael Jackson was “a great kid with a squeaky little voice grown” and a shyness that Gottschalk had never seen an artist at his order. Also on the accident of Samuel Koch writes course. “The door to the exit had opened suddenly, in the most unfortunate way that I could imagine. I decided to walk through it. “
On May 18, Gottschalk celebrating his 65th birthday. And what does the future hold? He did not intend to participate in the discussion whether he was the finish line before or shortly before, as long as he himself does not know where he wanted to go, Gottschalk writes. On the question of principle, if there were a place for him in the current television, he answers “in gray winter moments with a clear no. But then I say to myself: You’re still autumn blonde: – The difference between famous and world renowned “
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