Original: Wunderlich 's promising career was cut short by an accident : he fell from a stairway in a friend 's country house in Oberderdingen near Maulbronn , and died in the University Clinic of Heidelberg just days before his 36th birthday .
Simplified: Wunderlich was becoming world famous when he died from an accident : he fell down the stairs of a friend 's hunting house and died just before his 36th birthday .