Wolfgang world is dead – goodbye to a bulky original – Derwesten.de

              Bochum.
             Whether celebrated literary man, stubborn DJ or night porter: the death of Wolfgang world companions remember a silent man with a lot of humor

The Bochum literary scene loses its most distinctive voice. Wolfgang world died on Sunday after a long illness. This tells his long-time companion, the author Rainer Sexton, with the name of Old World family. World was 63 years old.

Actually, this text would have to be written at night, so you automatically think when writing these lines, for the night was Welts friend. Item 23 am, which meant for him: service beginning at the Schauspielhaus

24 years spent world the nights as a janitor at the Königsallee.. “Then He made his rounds and finally sat down until the next morning at the gate,” said chief dramaturge Olaf Kröck recalls. Always included: a book. he had never made the TV, this world have extensively listened to the radio. His favorite program: WDR 4 – Music for dreaming. “You have to imagine this,” says Kröck, “one of the largest Popkritiker the Ruhr heard at night gentle pop music.”

The myth will remain

Whether he the lonely nights alone in the theater to used to write his texts, to be the world have never expressed clearly. “That is part of the myth ‘stay, the grown up around it,” says Olaf Kröck. Peter Zontkowski, a friend from his youth, already thinking that the world took advantage of the solitude of his creative work. “Wolfgang had eternally long a typewriter, until finally someone bought him a laptop.”

    A special moment: Wolfgang world is his stage debut. “Hughie” was the piece that was played successfully from 2005 in today’s theater below.
    Photo: Schauspielhaus
  

Peter Zontkowski knows the world from a time in which the legendary Disco “incident” in Langendreer still called “Apple”. In the early 80s, the being he fashions as the New German was. “Wolfgang worked as a disk vendors in downtown and was on all musical trends totally up to date.” As a DJ put world at night on the hot wheels, which he sold during the day, wave ignored consistently. “The wishes of the people were him completely no matter. Wolfgang was a reckless DJ. Instead German rock he preferred to play punk, new wave or 50s pop. “

friendship with Peter Handke

Literary success just wide of the Ruhr, he celebrated with his trilogy “Buddy Holly on the Wilhelmshöhe”, which eventually became distributed by renowned Berlin Suhrkamp – for Wolfgang world accolade later. In his anthology “I wrote crazy” steered Peter Handke in the preface. With Handke world joined a long Correspondence.

His companions remember a silent, yet not simple people. When “dry guy with humor” it describes writer Rainer sexton “He was an original with heart and mind, which was not easy to take,” says Peter Zontkowski. “Wolfgang was authentic in the best sense of the word,” says Norbert Kurtz, longtime head of the “incident”.

At the Schauspielhaus is expected to take place in honor of Wolfgang world in autumn a matinee. The exact date is not known yet.

Sven Western Ströer