Line #4 Trivia/Werner


1	* ActingForTwo: Andi (the real one) speaks the characters of Andi, Röhrich and other ones
2	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Prior to the Race, an issue of the ''BILD'' reported about the upcoming event, including a picture of the "[[CoolBike Red Porsche Killer]]" with the life-sized wooden Werner (see {{Defictionalization}} below) sitting on it and its maker Ölfuß standing next to it. ''Bild'' not only misspelled Brösel's real name and reduced the Red Porsche Killer's value to one quarter of what it actually cost, but they claimed that it was red (it's actually metallic pink, the photographer should have known) and even that it was Brösel himself with a Werner mask sitting on the bike (when it was absolutely obvious that what sat on the bike wasn't a human at all; at least the FourFingeredHands should have been a dead giveaway).
3	** Brösel's reaction came at the very beginning of the documentary book ''Das Rennen'': He re-wrote the entire newspaper article and deliberately turned everything wrong that could be turned wrong.
4	* TheDanza: Werner's brother Andi is modeled after Brösel's brother Andi who is also his animated counterpart's voice actor.
5	* {{Defictionalization}}:
6	** Werner himself. In the mid-80s, Brösel and his entourage built a life-sized Werner out of materials ranging from modeling clay to wood to waste water pipes to real chicken feet. This Werner was used as part of the display at book fairs. He turned out so good that when he was placed on the "Red Porsche Killer" before the Horex vs. Porsche race, someone at the BILD actually thought he was Brösel himself wearing a Werner mask (see CowboyBebopAtHisComputer). However, Brösel commented that a mole could see that this isn't a human being.
7	** When Ölfuß designed the "[[CoolBike Red Porsche Killer]]" for the Horex vs. Porsche race in ''Beinhart!'', he always said it could be built just like that. It was eventually built with some minor changes...
8	** ...to defictionalize the race itself, but on a small airfield instead of several miles of Autobahn and with both vehicles reaching the finish.
9	** To fulfill the race contract, there was also a machine built to throw cat shit at the loser just like in the comic. Contract is contract, and the contract existed in RealLife before Brösel drew the comic.
10	** Oh, and: The cat shit hose ''[[{{Squick}} did]]'' [[{{Squick}} come off and spread the excrements over the audience]] after the race.
11	** Werner having his own beer came up first in ''Beinhart!'' when he crashes through the roof of a railroad boxcar labeled for a beer brand with Werner's trademark ''W'' as its logo. Then, in the main story in ''Besser is das!'', Werner, Andi and their friends make their own beer. Eventually, the Gilde brewery issued an official ''Werner'' beer named Bölkstoff.
12	** The "[[PunnyName Satte Literschüssel]]" with its huge single-cylinder engine was modeled as a real motorbike after its comic version -- and ended up having quite a bit more displacement than in the comic, officially declared the motorcycle with the biggest one-cylinder engine in the world by Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords.
13	** When ''Gekotzt wird später!'' was made, the 1975 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency custom car "[[CoolCar Regentenschüssel]]" that's made and used in the film was built for real -- without NitroBoost, though.
14	** And then there is the "[[PunnyName Heizölkessel]]", a "racing diesel chopper" powered by a parallel twin engine with two counter-rotating crankshafts to eliminate vibration that Werner got on prescription from a pharmacy (ItMakesSenseInContext) and rebuilt to a turbocharged diesel engine. Not the bike itself, but the concept of a high-speed chopper with a twin-crankshaft parallel-twin turbo-diesel was made real as the [[https://www.neander-motors.com/motoren/kraftrad/ Neander Kraftrad]], the world's second-most expensive production motorcycle.
15	* DevelopmentHell: The Horex chopper that Werner had before the "Satte Literschüssel" was based on a RealLife project that was never fully completed. Everything was done except for the pair of tanks that was originally planned to be made of old Citroën 2CV headlights plus sheet metal cones, this actually ended up in the comics. The next plan was to use old fire extinguishers which didn't come to fruition either. So the bike just sat there unfinished.
16	** SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Since Brösel needed a bike to ride in ''Beinhart!'', it was eventually completed with a run-of-the-mill tank painted black with a kind of Horex logo welded (!) onto the side.
17	* ExecutiveMeddling:
18	** The title of the sixth book, ''Besser is das!'', had to be censored after the first edition because the Flensburger brewery understood it as comparative advertising in favor of Werner's recently launched own beer brand, "Bölkstoff". Werner had been drinking Flensburger beer all the time before, in fact, he was the reason behind the immense increase in popularity for the small brewery near the Danish border in the 1980s. The Bölkstoff brand was then bought by the Flensburger brewery in 2001.
19	** Likewise, merch with the "Red Porsche Killer" on it had to be censored upon "request" by Porsche. Also, the book ''Das Rennen'' names it "Red XXXXXX Killer".
20	*** This was lifted after Brösel had failed to beat Holgi's Porsche, never to return.
21	* TheRedStapler: Werner popularized Flensburger Pilsener beer, formerly known in and around Flensburg only, all over Germany.

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