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Singer Campino: successor to Reich-Ranicki, Biermann, Brandauer
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Campino, 61-year-old singer of the Toten Hosen, will be a visiting professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
The university announced this on Monday.
Campino will be able to demonstrate his passion for literature, poetry and communication in two lectures.
The rock musician, whose real name is Andreas Frege, will give the first lecture on April 2nd.
Title: »Kästner, Kraftwerk, Cock Sparrer.
A declaration of love for everyday poetry.
Three weeks later, Campino lectured again: “Everyone has something to say.
The cacophony of our time."
Tickets for both lectures will be raffled off.
This is not Campino's first appearance on campus.
He made headlines there decades ago with the Toten Hosen when a concert by the Düsseldorf punk band in the university cafeteria got out of hand and a lot of things were broken.
The Heinrich Heine Visiting Professorship is a gift to the university from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988.
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.
Campino was among the listeners during Brandauer's guest lecture.
The first Heinrich Heine visiting professor was Marcel Reich-Ranicki in 1991.
Feb/dpa