The bestseller -Author and former television presenter Roger Willemsen is dead. This was confirmed by his office in Hamburg and his Frankfurt publisher S. Fischer on Monday. Willemsen retired after a cancer diagnosis immediately from the public – but lost the battle in the end
What a tragic story that now almost five months. later a sad end was: Roger Willemsen, one of the most popular intellectuals in the country, died at the age of 60 years from the effects of his cancer at his home in Wentorf. Only last August it was announced that he was suffering from the serious illness. He received
The diagnosis shortly after his 60th birthday. Immediately said Willemsen from all public events and lived since then withdrawn largely from the public. He wanted to get out of the spotlight, pure – and back – in a private rest, which should give him strength. For all that was to come. For the fight against a disease that ends all too often fatal. But also won Roger Willemsen not end.
ZDF broadcast “Willemsens week” made the author known
Willemsen had a fairytale childhood, as he once described himself. Born in 1955 in Bonn, he grew up in a castle in the Rhineland. He repeatedly stressed publicly how much he enjoyed this childhood. The school, however, he described not so rosy: “stayed twice hang because of excessive stupidity, mixed with laziness, disinterest and lack of passion for what I should be able to,” he explained
He put this passion in. other projects. A first novel he could not bring to a conclusion, but once he discovered another medium: television. As early as 1991 he hosted for the pay-TV broadcaster Premiere the interview program “0137″ and became a rising star in the world Moderator. The show was considered a “Talk without taboos”, located between politics and Boulevard
More than 600 interviews he conducted in one year: From Audrey Hepburn to Palestinian leader Arafat many celebrities were present – including a bank robber.. His claim, “to be exact,” and his most insightful conversation made him and his magazine praiseworthy.
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broadcasts received several
after moving to the ZDF in Mainz, he hosted from 1994 to 1998 “Willemsens week”. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” described his format as a “model for intelligent, if not intellectual entertainment”. In summer 1996 he went back to many celebrities on ZDF, he presented his nine-part series of portraits “Willemsens contemporaries”. For the journalist met, among others Quincy Jones jr., Michel Piccoli, Vivienne Westwood, Philippe Starck and John Malkovich.
His television penchant he continued to build from. With his own TV production company “Noa Noa” produced and co-produced Willemsen themed dinners and award ceremonies. He was awarded in 1992, among others, the Bavarian Television Award. The following year, he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in Gold.
Willemsen wanted both: television and literature
However, the world of printed letters still did not let go. Roger Willemsen, the ( “The ends of the world”) was especially popular for his essayistic travel books, ended last with his book “The House” (2014) a bestseller. He had one year what happens in the Bundestag from the stands as audience followed. It was to be his last work.
the moderator was the end also known for its excellent words . A quote is this here: “Certain conditions towards life radicalism is the only sensible thing humanity still saves.” to the meaning of life, he told the Catholic news agency: “I have my period. I fill them “
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