Bonn - nine weeks ago, the grieving family of Showman tilt to her head. Father Willi († 53) died of lung cancer.
His son Willy Jr. now follow in his footsteps. He is the youngest boss on Pützchen fair. The Lord of the Ferris wheel is tender 15 years old.
Visitors marvel at Pützchens market building blocks: The head of Europarad - with 55 meters and 46,000 light bulbs' landmark Pützchen - is a teenager! And: The "Action House" across from him is one too!
Big Boss Willy? The nice young man can not hear at all. Finally, he shares the responsibility with the family: "My mother, Claudia, my sister, Erni, my cousin Kurt and I are equal."
While many of their peers do not know what they want to be, borne by the showman-offspring have great responsibility. In setting up the steel colossus he has pants on.
Claudia's mother: "To take care of the technology, Willi and Kurt." Willi says the seven-employee Pützchen how it's done, watching every step in the assembly with Argus eyes. "The respect me as a boss, there are no problems."
No wonder. Willy is still young, but still an eternity there. The fair is in his blood. "Even in my stomach, he has visited Germany's Fairs," says her mother Claudia.
He goes to school for nine years, where the Ferris wheel is doing station. In the study, he went with his father. He made the Filius with the affairs of the family trusts. "What I know, I know of him," said the junior over the senior.
It is quiet when the family starts talking about the recently deceased father. Widow Claudia: "soul and morally it is absent in every nook and cranny. But we still get along. "The show must go on the ferris wheel spins without the patriarch.
Time for it is the families do not anyway. After waiting Pützchen Stuttgart Beer Festival in Stuttgart, the second largest festival in southern Germany. Willi Kipp Jr. was there too often. As the head of it is the first time ..
