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Alfred Hilsberg was already a legend when he released the “Ich-Machine” plate from Blumfeld on 1992. He became the band’s manager. “L’Atat et Moi”, “Old Nobody”, “Testament of Fear”, “Beyond everyone” – Hilsberg was always there, the black eminence next to Jochen Distelmeyer.
He drank one or the other schnapps in the Hotel Hafen Hafen Hamburg with a view of the Elbe. His phone calls were a cozy handlebar, a creaking accusation. “What do we do with the omniscient billiard ball? It’s time for Knarf Rellöm! Rummelsnuff-great! Well, now you can’t avoid a flumbing title leaf!”
In Hamburg world famous
Alfred Hilsberg was always there – but in 1947 he was said to have been born in Wolfsburg. He wrote in “Sounds”, about German music, about punk from Cologne and Düsseldorf (“Rodenkirchen is Burning”), and in 1979 he shaped the term “Neue Deutsche Welle” in a text. Which was soon taken up. He released on zigzag, the deadly Doris, FSK, the room men; Later he founded what’s funny about and brought albums from 39 clocks, mother, the skin, cpt. Kirk &. and monostars.
Hilsberg was world famous in Hamburg, but money didn’t get around much. Hilsberg did not make success, but he quickly released a lot of plates, and trio and extra -wing were not there. And not The Cure either. But Hilsberg liked German texts.
He was finally successful with flumbing – and he curated language works of art, so to speak. In Jürgen Teipel’s compendium “Winging your youth” (2001), he is praised as well as in Andreas Doraus and Sven Regener’s book “Trouble with immortality” (2015). Hilsberg called an essay “only the Hamburg Sparkasse”.
He did not write his planned “cultural history of the Federal Republic from below”, but Christof Meueler immortalized the rumbling old master in “The Zigzag principle-a life for the underground”.
Now the enabled Alfred Hilsberg has died in Hamburg.