There is a place in western Allgäu that has a special relationship with hats. There is one of two hat museums in Bavaria, there is an annual hat day and a hat queen every two years. And there is the long-established company Mayser, which has been building the Stetson model "Open Road" from 100 percent rabbit hair felt for many years, the most prominent bearer of which is a nationwide known rock star. The place in the Allgäu is called Lindenberg. The musician we are talking about, by the way, too.
He is a German icon …
This is actually nothing more than one of many nice anecdotes about Udo Lindenberg. Like the Hamburg flat share in the 1970s with Otto Waalkes and Marius Müller-Westernhagen. How he had something with Nena. How he snubbed the entire GDR leadership with the "Special Train to Pankow" in the early 1980s, when they actually found him good because of his anti-attitude towards the NATO double decision. But the anecdote also tells us that the man at 74 years old is a German icon, untouchable, hovering above everything, and his own headgear from a place that happens to be named like him is a pretty symbol of it.
How it all started is a very successful biopic by director Hermine Huntgeburth, which has been running in cinemas since January 16. "Lindenberg! Do your thing!" is the name of the film in which Jan Bülow from Berlin plays the very young Udo Gerhard Lindenberg, who waits in Düsseldorf, drums for US soldiers in North Africa, strives for a career as a jazz drummer and sex, drugs and rock'n'roll in excess gets.
And a real talent
He left the drugs behind for a long time, we don't know about sex now, but rock'n'roll is still there, the real Udo tours annually and restlessly, "It has become a lifestyle and keeps me fit," he said in an interview. He is the father of his panic family; Anyone who is in need in their environment will be helped without fuss. He is a total work of art, he paints, there are films and books by him, and his songs are quotable classics, even the new ones. "I sometimes say to myself: You are still a young talent, Udo", says Lindenberg, "you can still do a lot."
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