| 1930 |
| 09-26 |
| | Friedrich Karl Otto Wunderlich is born in the little town of Kusel, Lower Palatinate, Germany. His father Paul Wunderlich is a restaurant and cinema owner, who had formerly worked as a military band leader, dance band leader and cellist. His mother Anna Wunderlich, née Malz, once worked as a violinist with a dance band. The Kusel area is also called the "Kuseler Musikantenland" for the many (minstrel) musicians who originally came from there and who spread their music all over Europe. |
| 1935 |
| | Fritz's father dies. |
| 1948 |
| | After finishing school, he attends the Kusel teacher-training college. At the same time, he works with various dance bands as a singer, accordionist or trumpet player. He forms his own band "Die Hutmacher". |
| 1949 |
| Autumn |
| | Weekly singing lessons with Käthe Bittel-Valckenberg at Kaiserslautern, where he goes to by bike (40 km for one way!). |
| | Audition at the Freiburg College of Music. Wunderlich starts to study singing and French horn. Margarethe von Winterfeldt becomes his singing teacher |
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| 1966 |
| 09-17 |
| | Fritz Wunderlich dies in the University Clinic of Heidelberg. A few days later, he is buried in the Munich 'Waldfriedhof' cemetery. |
