Ramble Meets... Uli Hesse
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ramble Meets is on location in Germany this week, as the great Uli Hesse joins Andy Brassell in Dortmund!
Author of a plethora of books and now in a senior role at the legendary magazine 11FREUNDE, Uli tells Andy about his journey from the terraces at Westfalenstadion in his native Dortmund to his current status as one of European football's very finest storytellers, as well as giving us unique insights on the Jürgen Klopp phenomenon and what happened between the national team and Mesut Özil.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the latest Rambl meets. I'm Andy Brassel and this one was a great pleasure for me |
| 0:07.2 | because it was the German author and journalist Uli Hesse, who I sat down with at the end of a long |
| 0:15.8 | and very enjoyable football weekend in Northern Germany for which he was our guide. |
| 0:22.8 | Uli, having written a ton of books most notably tour on the history of German football. He's written |
| 0:29.2 | books on Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, his club as well. Now works at Elfreinder, the excellent German |
| 0:38.6 | football magazine. He took us around and showed us what was what from Dusseldorf to Bokham and |
| 0:48.2 | he very kindly made some time for us at the end of weekend. We didn't really have anywhere to do it. |
| 0:54.6 | So we just sat down in a quietish corner of a restaurant which despite it being Sunday night and |
| 1:01.9 | selling Austrian schnitzel was playing loads of banging music as I'm sure you'll be aware of. |
| 1:07.2 | And it was a good point to start our chat because even though this particular music is not |
| 1:12.0 | Uli's bag, Uli actually started out as a music journalist and has got loads of rich musical stories |
| 1:21.1 | to tell us. So that was the starting point to our conversation which went off in several different |
| 1:25.4 | directions which I'm sure you're really going to love after that. So this is Rambl meets with Uli |
| 1:31.1 | Hesse. Enjoy! |
| 1:37.8 | We started this weekend talking about the great musical traditions of Dusseldorf where we currently |
| 1:44.5 | are and talking about Craftswork. They can be considered responsible for this I suppose. |
| 1:51.2 | You mean for this for our journey to Dusseldorf or for the music everywhere? |
| 1:57.1 | Yeah in a way well for a certain standard music of course. I grew up with guitar bands and punk |
| 2:05.0 | bands and everything so yeah a craft work. I mean funnily enough I really didn't really appreciate |
| 2:13.6 | when they were around. Did you know? No no really I was too young I think. |
| 2:19.2 | You know I was born in 1966 so by the time I really got around to go into gigs and writing |
| 2:24.8 | about music. Like I said I was more into guitar bands and then although of course you know |
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