Music to his Ears
Los Angeles, Shanghai and Randersacker – The photographer Tobias Zielony and the writer Thomas Pletzinger accompanied Dirk Nowitzki for months. FORTYONE has a sample of their reporting for y
Thomas Pletzinger
The author page for Thomas Pletzinger in the US edition of this archive: everything the magazine published under this name, at the addresses it carried then. The index holds 5 pages here. They sit in Media (2), Campus (2), The Court (1). 4 of the pages came in with a photograph of their own.
Thomas Pletzinger was born in 1975 and grew up in Hagen, then the basketball capital of Germany. His career as a professional player ended before it even began. He lives in Berlin, where he writes and watches basketball games. After his first novel Funeral for a Dog (2008; translation Norton 2011), he spent one season with the professional basketball team Alba Berlin for his nonfiction nonfiction book Gentlemen, We Are Living on the Edge (Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2012). In 2019, his book about Dirk will be published. It’s called The Great Nowitzki. www.thomaspletzinger.de
Stories by Thomas Pletzinger
- Los Angeles, Shanghai and Randersacker – The photographer Tobias Zielony and the writer Thomas Pletzinger accompanied Dirk Nowitzki for months. FORTYONE has a sample of their reporting for you.
- He's from Wuerzburg, he's tall, he can shoot, he plays for the Mavericks – Maxi Kleber showed FORTYONE around Dallas. His new town.
- The Pro Celebrity Tennis Classic in Dallas – with Owen Wilson, Donald Young, Andy Roddick and many more. And FORTYONE.
- When Dirk hosts his annual Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game, everybody is there: Mavericks, Cowboys, tennis pros, 10.000 enthusiastic fans. And FORTYONE.
- Dirk Nowitzki is a superstar in Germany – but in the US, he is »Saint Dirk«. The writer Thomas Pletzinger met him in Dallas.
Pages that mention this name
Now I’m here
He's from Wuerzburg, he's tall, he can shoot, he plays for the Mavericks – Maxi Kleber showed FORTYONE around Dallas. His new town.
Love 15. Love 30. Love 41
The Pro Celebrity Tennis Classic in Dallas – with Owen Wilson, Donald Young, Andy Roddick and many more. And FORTYONE.
Our Favorite Son
When Dirk hosts his annual Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game, everybody is there: Mavericks, Cowboys, tennis pros, 10.000 enthusiastic fans. And FORTYONE.
The House that Dirk built
Dirk Nowitzki is a superstar in Germany – but in the US, he is »Saint Dirk«. The writer Thomas Pletzinger met him in Dallas.