Vaihingen (rkü). Thomas Pletzinger has a great passion: the writer loves basketball and adores Dirk Nowitzki. At the end of the career of the best German basketball player of all time, he wrote a biography – “The Great Nowitzki”. And already on page 18 you almost start to cry. In April 2019, Nowitzki stood for the last time in his active career on the court of the American Airline Center in Dallas. In the middle of the game, pictures from Nowitzki’s visit to a local children’s clinic were shown on the video cube in the hall. Pletzinger describes the scene when Nowitzki looked up at the video cube, as simply as possible. It ends like this: “Dirk Nowitzki is standing alone in the middle of the field, and when he can’t get his emotion under control, he lowers his eyes, arms on his knees. The hall is fighting with his tears. “
A lot can go wrong with athlete biographies. Often it is just a dull series of successes and failures. Describing the movements, the so-called processes, the sum of which sport ultimately makes, is terribly difficult. And Pletzinger can do it.
Amanda Schüle from Oberriexingen, Tobias Häfner from Sersheim and David Jovanovic from Hemmingen can immerse themselves in the world of basketball player Dirk Nowitzki. You were drawn from almost 30 correct senders and each won a copy of “The Great Nowitzki” by Thomas Pletzinger, which is available for collection at the Vaihinger Kreiszeitung Service Center, Marktplatz 15, 71665 Vaihingen.
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