Roger Willemsen ill with cancer, canceled all appearances – SPIEGEL ONLINE

On August 15 had become 60 years old, the former moderator. He had received only after the diagnosis, let Roger Willemsen’s Office report. For further information it would not initially give, also was asked to agree to the privacy.

Roger Willemsen is one of the most famous German intellectuals. Especially with essayistic travel books (“The ends of the world”), he became known. Most recently, he landed with his book “The House” 2014 bestseller. But he had one year following the activity in the Bundestag from the stands as a listener.

On television, who lives in Hamburg was started mainly in the nineties with the ZDF talk show “Willemsens week” successfully. By his own testimony Willemsen in his career interviewed more than 2,000 people, including figures such as Yasser Arafat, Madonna, the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.