All happiness on earth …
As a child, bestselling author Peter Prange (66, “Our wonderful years”) had a big dream: he wanted to become a successful show jumper.
Prange to BILD: “I fell off my horse for the first time when I was two and a half years old. My cousin wanted to go on the horse, but then got scared and began to fidget, so that we both tumbled off the horse. My cousin had a hole in his head afterwards, but for me it was the beginning of my riding career. “
His family had their own horse before they had their own car, Prange recalls. From the age of eight he rode properly.
But then Prange took a liking to hemp and deviated from his original plan: “At the age of 15, I smoked weed like a world champion.” After getting so drunk when he was 17, he collapsed after a circulatory collapse.
“I collapsed in front of the door of the health department, of all places. Crawling on all fours, I made my way into the bushes. From that day I was cured. “
To this day, Prange still rides regularly. But only if he gets stuck in writing his complex historical novels (sold circulation: almost three million books).
“I have the best ideas in the saddle,” he says. His current book “The Dream Palace – Im Bann der Bilder” takes place in the early twenties of the last millennium. The focus is on the just founded UFA dream factory, which is supposed to stand up to Hollywood …