He doesn’t feel like a revolutionary, but rather an elder statesman. Says Tote Hosen frontman Campino during his inaugural lecture at the university in Düsseldorf.
Tote Hosen singer Campino (61) revealed at his inaugural lecture as a visiting professor at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf that he had been enrolled there for years as a student of English and history. “Due to scheduling reasons, I wasn’t able to attend a lecture,” Campino said on Tuesday. Luckily, the university never resented his years of absence.
During a performance with the Toten Hosen in the university cafeteria in 1985, ceiling lights and toilets were broken. “That was the moment when I had to expect a ban on the house – but it wasn’t me,” said the rock musician.
University Rector Anja Steinbeck said that Campino was almost a mandatory choice as a visiting professor. Heinrich Heine, who gave the professorship and university its name, had already taken a stand against the establishment and traditional conventions. “I can hardly serve as a critic of the system anymore. I come as an elder statesman,” said Campino. “I bring nothing with me except enthusiasm for texts that mean something to me.”
30,000 people applied for a place in Campino’s lecture, 650 fit into the university’s largest lecture hall. Title: “Kästner, Kraftwerk, Cock Sparrer. A declaration of love for everyday poetry”.
Before Campino, Helmut Schmidt, Juli Zeh, Wolf Biermann, Siegfried Lenz, Joschka Fischer, Antje Vollmer, Karl Cardinal Lehmann, Ulrich Wickert, Joachim Gauck and most recently Klaus-Maria Brandauer were Heine visiting professors. The first Heinrich Heine visiting professor was Marcel Reich-Ranicki in 1991.
Source: Stern
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