{"id":886886,"date":"2026-10-18T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886886\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T18:38:14","slug":"dying-is-for-others-many-celebrities-attend-klaffenbocks-book-launch-sidecar-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886886\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dying is for Others\u2019: Many celebrities attend Klaffenb\u00f6ck\u2019s book launch &#8211; Sidecar Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">At the Sidecar Festival at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in early October, fans of three-wheeled racing were treated to the launch of Klaus Klaffenb\u00f6ck\u2019s autobiography, *Sterben tun die Anderen*.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">This was followed by a celebratory launch of the book in his home country at the Audi House of Progress on K\u00e4rntner Stra\u00dfe in Vienna. Together with co-author Kurt Molzer, the former sidecar world champion and three-time winner of the infamous Isle of Man Tourist Trophy offered an insight into his eventful career during a reading.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">The large audience included a number of prominent figures: amongst the guests listening to the adventurous anecdotes were Austria\u2019s star comedian Alex Kristan and Alexander Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen, a great-great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Also in attendance were motor racing greats such as seven-time sidecar world champion Rolf Biland, with whom he had fought many a duel on the racetracks, the brilliant sidecar designer Louis Christen, the five-time Grand Prix winner Gustl Auinger, and ServusTV F1 commentator Andi Gr\u00f6bl.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Anyone who does not already own this highly readable book \u2013 of which, incidentally, there is also an English version entitled \u2018Dying is for Others\u2019 \u2013 can order it directly from Klaffenb\u00f6ck\u2019s website for \u20ac34.90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Sidecar Festival at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in early October, fans of three-wheeled racing were treated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-886886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}