Popular satirist and singer dies at the age of 57 - This is the cause of death is known

writers and singers Wiglaf Droste was only 57 years old. He died in the Franconian town of Pottenstein, after a short, serious illness. Update from 17. May,

Popular satirist and singer dies at the age of 57 - This is the cause of death is known

writers and singers Wiglaf Droste was only 57 years old. He died in the Franconian town of Pottenstein, after a short, serious illness.

Update from 17. May, 9.16 a.m.: Not only in the social networks is the mourning for Wiglaf Droste in size. Also, the German media landscape shows a very affected about the death of the "gifted Polemikers", such as the Bavarian radio writes. Overall, the Consensus on the well-known satirist, "is much died too early". The exact cause of death is still not known, at the Moment, the talk is only of "a short, severe illness".

Update 13.54 PM: On Twitter the condolences roll over statements to Droste Wiglaf. The Followers honor his texts and his life's work. The exact cause of death, nothing has been known yet.

Original article: Wiglaf Droste is dead

The writer and singer Wiglaf Droste died, according to newspaper reports, at the age of 57 years. Like the "Junge Welt" reported on Thursday citing information from the closest family circle, succumbed to Droste on Wednesday evening in the Franconian town of Pottenstein, a short, serious illness. The "Leipziger Volkszeitung" called in her report on the death of the satirist on information from their circle of friends.

Of 1961 in the North Rhine-Westphalian Herford born Droste lived according to the "Leipzig people's daily" for about a year and a half with a friend in Pottenstein and wrote until the last of the new texts. In addition, he had, therefore, a apartment in Leipzig, Germany, his adopted home since 2006.

Wiglaf Droste wrote for several Newspapers

Droste wrote in the course of his career for several Newspapers, including regularly since 1994 for the "Young world". Since January 2011, he had the sheet of a daily column. Most recently, he told the newspaper, according to the column of marital bliss in Swiss francs. Only last year, Droste received together with Pit, Knorr, the satirist prize "Göttinger Elch". But also as a singer Droste was known. Together with Bela B from the Doctors he brought out in 1989, his first Single with the title "Grönemeyer can't dance".

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Date Of Update: 18 May 2019, 00:02

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