Wilken F. Dincklage

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Tarzan is back (as Willem)
  DE 5 02/28/1977 (18 weeks)
What? (as Willem)
  DE 19th 04/18/1983 (8 weeks)

Wilken F. Dincklage (born August 21, 1942 in Hamburg as Wilken F. Müller , † October 18, 1994 ibid) was a German musician , radio host and actor . He was known under the stage name Willem or Der fat Willem .

Life

His birth name was Wilken F. Müller. When he married in 1973, however, he took his mother's maiden name as his family name and was henceforth Wilken F. Dincklage. Before Dincklage began his career as a musician, he worked as a businessman and tea taster. He later worked in Hamburg as an Eastern Bloc expert for an industrial group. In the early 1970s, Dincklage lived in the artist shared apartment Villa Kunterbunt in Hamburg-Winterhude . There he lived with Otto Waalkes , Udo Lindenberg and Marius Müller-Westernhagen , among others .

On October 18, 1994, Wilken F. Dincklage died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 52 .

music

As a 15-year-old Dincklage bought a banjo and played in several jazz clubs in Hamburg. In the early 1960s, he then got a guitar . In 1972 he founded, among others, together with Peter Petrel , the pensioner band that emerged from the Hamburg scene at the time . In 1977 Dincklage finally left the pensioners band to continue working as a solo artist Willem . He achieved his greatest commercial successes mainly with cover versions , where he branded the respective original version; for example, Tarzan's Is Back contains a quote from Disco Duck by Rick Dees . In the spring of 1977, Tarzan ist there again reached number five in the German hit parade. In 1983 he achieved another chart placement at number 19 with Wat? , a German version of Captain Sensibles Wot , with which he also made it into the ZDF hit parade . He parodied the film ET - The Extra-Terrestrial . His last commercial hit was a cover version of Geil in 1986 , the original of which was sung by Bruce & Bongo . Willem also recorded the song Are You Lonely Tonight in 1975 , a cover version of Are You Lonesome Tonight? , in a duet with Helga Feddersen .

radio

From 1972 onwards, Dincklage shifted his professional focus to moderation and began his broadcasting career initially with Saarländischer Rundfunk , where he regularly wrote and spoke for the program Pop Corner on SR2 Studiowelle Saar . With the introduction of a new youth magazine Drugstore 1421 on SR1 Europawelle Saar of the Saarländischer Rundfunk, he became a permanent presenter there. In addition, he later presented the programs Pop non stop and the Europa-Elf hit parade . From 1979 Willem ended his activity at Saarländischer Rundfunk and now worked for North German Broadcasting ( NDR 2 , NDR 1 Welle Nord ), Radio Bremen , Südfunk Stuttgart and West German Broadcasting . Regular broadcasts from him were, for example, Espresso (music guessing and singing, Das Dingsbumsspiel) , hits with Willem and Die Norddeutsche Top Fofftein . After the fall of the Wall , Dincklage brought his media experience to the Antenne MV , the first private broadcaster in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

actor

Wilken F. Dincklage was also active as an actor and played minor supporting roles in the films:

Apart from his acting activities, he was a speaker in some radio plays; For example, Dincklage lent his voice to the fictional character Der Schrat from the Mecki radio plays. He also played the role of the narrator in the German version of the rock version of Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf .

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1975: in great shape
  • 1979: ... the one with the hat
  • 1980: Willem III (steal me, we'll see what you get out of it)

Compilations

  • 1978: The best from the pensioner band & Willem
  • 1983: What? Willem - His strongest songs

Singles

  • 1973: Say hi to Herbert, Hein and Jan and don't give a shit with Fred (... Oh Erika) / Batterflei (original version: Butterfly by Danyel Gérard )
  • 1974: Oh dear, the Kohoutek / Mas Palomas, oh no
  • 1975: We want it to be nice / heavy in shape
  • 1977: Tarzan is back / It's my birthday next week
  • 1977: Let the morning sun (finally go down) / I'm at home there
  • 1977: Du, Du, Du (She's a Good Woman) (interpreter: Pensionnerband & Willem) / dance band on the Titanic
  • 1977: Merry Christmas / Good night, children
  • 1978: Uncle Fuzzy (interpreter: Pensionnerband & Willem) / Gestatten, Schmidt
  • 1978: The police / keep fit
  • 1978: She (is what girls are like) / Willems Bio
  • 1979: In the Beknacktenclub (interpreter: Willem, Günter and all 'the others) / With Zampel un Kaffetäng
  • 1979: Never again alcohol / Only the very best
  • 1980: Grandma's fairy tale hour / Kurti's Delight
  • 1980: The Rock'n Roller egg toller / Friday afternoon in the jungle (Umbaumbarassa)
  • 1983: Poor Bear / Poor Bear (instrumental)
  • 1983: What? / My supplement
  • 1985: Checkout (Original Version : Doin 'the Ali Shuffle by Alvin Cash) / Latte Si
  • 1986: Geil / Willems BB-Boogie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Frank Rainer Huck: - ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Willem: The big black guy with the little red moped." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sr-online.de
  3. ^ Günther Fink: Otto - the walking East Frisian joke is sixty. In: Welt online , July 12, 2008
  4. ↑ http://www.sr.de/sr/home/der_sr/wir_uber_uns/geschichte/fundstucke/20140701_fundstueck_willem100.html
  5. ↑ http://www.coverinfo.de/start.php?wert=12&lang=2&suchbegriff=%22Tarzan+ist+wieder+da%22&sort=2&suchenach=title&tabelle=1&suchebemerkung=&suchoption=xsearch&seite=1&xpert=0
  6. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/Willem-Tarzan-Ist-Wieder-Da/release/695978
  7. ↑ https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-26025
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8LG8HgHHcw
  9. ↑ Article from IMDb
  10. ↑ [1] (Polydor International, RSO 2394164).
personal data
SURNAME Dincklage, Wilken F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1994
Place of death Hamburg