Andreas Frege, who calls himself the singer of the rock band Tote Hosen Campino, was born in Düsseldorf in 1962. In October his book "Hope Street - How I became an English master" will be published.
SPIEGEL
editor Philipp Oehmke contributed to the book.
An excerpt.
My parents moved from Düsseldorf to the suburbs in 1965, to Burscheidter Weg 101, in the green, a semi-detached house with a garden.
Eight of us lived here: my mother Jennie, my father Joachim, my two older brothers John and Mike, my older sisters Judy and Maria and my little sister Lizzie.
"If you own six horses in Germany, you are considered wealthy. If you have six children, you are antisocial," my mother once said.
There had been Peter too, he was the third oldest.
But he died of pneumonia just a few months old in 1955.
So I was now number five and, as the youngest son, something like my father's favorite child.
"Andreas, don't you want to go out and play with the others?" Mummy called from the hallway.
The sun was shining outside, it was midsummer.
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