Re:Heinz Wolff has died
by Lio on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:52AM
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This is very sad news.
I loved seeing Heinz Wolff on TV as a child for two reasons.
First, like Johnny Ball, it was great to see a quirky, odd shaped personality on TV instead of the usual slick drama school, artsy or journalist types.
For a nerdy kid like me Heinz was a wonderfully fun roll model.
Second, Heinz was German. In a country where sections of the media* still go on about the Second World War at every political dealing with modern Germany, Heinz was a well known “nice German”.
People like Heinz Wolff, Bauhaus and Kraftwerk made me a deutschophile. The irony that he came to England from Germany as a Jewish refugee is not lost on me.
*(My family lost my grandfather and two others fighting but it’s ridiculous how the tabloids still blame current generations of Germans for the past whilst pushing their own dodgy agendas).
I loved seeing Heinz Wolff on TV as a child for two reasons.
First, like Johnny Ball, it was great to see a quirky, odd shaped personality on TV instead of the usual slick drama school, artsy or journalist types.
For a nerdy kid like me Heinz was a wonderfully fun roll model.
Second, Heinz was German. In a country where sections of the media* still go on about the Second World War at every political dealing with modern Germany, Heinz was a well known “nice German”.
People like Heinz Wolff, Bauhaus and Kraftwerk made me a deutschophile. The irony that he came to England from Germany as a Jewish refugee is not lost on me.
*(My family lost my grandfather and two others fighting but it’s ridiculous how the tabloids still blame current generations of Germans for the past whilst pushing their own dodgy agendas).