Der W - V CD - Comes in a Digipak Finally: After six years, DER W presents a new album! 'V' joins the highly successful, but uncompromising discography of Stephan Weidner, the head of DER W and lyricist of the Böhsen Onkelz. It took too long, but a lot has happened in Stephan Weidner's life as well. Some glorious, some triumphant, not everything was good, but many things were very intense. The 12 tracks of 'V' are the echo of a loud recent past. Emotions are greater than crises. Weidner and guitarist Dirk Czuya turned them into music. The sound of a life becomes the soundtrack for a new and better one. 'In times like these, it sometimes feels wrong to feel good, but I feel good,' says Weidner. 'Life has taught me to endure it and never question it. The desire that arises from it, I burn in my writing.' Following the predecessor 'IV' from 2016, Weidner had two number-one albums with the Böhsen Onkelz and performed at the country's biggest arenas in front of hundreds of thousands of sp