Lost in Music: Geschichten aus der Popmusik mit Caroline von Eichhorn, Fritz Ani, Peter Probst, Ez Kamil, Fritzi Noir & Timo Sarmiento und Daniel He

In the organizer's words:

LOST IN MUSIC:

Stories from pop music

Event with readings and live music

IT'S A HARDCORE NIGHT was the name of a series of events in Munich at which authors, actors and celebrities read texts from their favorite books published by Heyne Hardcore, which still existed at the time, accompanied by music from local musicians and bands on the fly, followed by dancing together.
Heyne Hardcore is now history.
But now the then publishing director and initiator of the event series Markus Naegele (also known as Don Marco as a musician and DJ) is bringing together what belongs together again under the motto LOST IN MUSIC (based on the cult book by Giles Smith).

Letters, (auto)biographical texts, articles, excerpts from novels from the wide world of pop music. Read aloud by authors, musicians, presenters and actors.
There will be live music on the fly, but not just any music, no, LOST IN MUSIC is also about the high art of cover versions, performed by local acts.
Afterwards, friendly DJs play their favorite records and it's time to party.

Where? LIVE.EVIL (Fat Cat/Gasteig, Rosenheimer Str. 5, 81667 Munich)

When: Thu. 27.11.25, 20:00 (admission 19:00)

What?

Readings:

👉 Caroline von Eichhorn

👉 Friedrich Ani

👉 Peter Probst

Live music

👉 Ez Kamil

👉 Daniel He

👉 Fritzi Noir & Timo Sarmiento

Moderation:

👉 Don Marco

DJ:

👉 King Brownie

This event is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

The performers

Caroline von Eichhorn is an author, reporter, journalist - and always on the lookout for stories that uncover the core of things. Her craft consists of looking closely, unraveling the threads of complex relationships and telling them in a way that makes them touching and understandable. At Bayerischer Rundfunk, she tracks down climate inventions or puts politicians to the test in a reality check. In the format "Parents without filters", she writes about the happiness and abyss of being a parent. As a coach, she passes on her passion to young people. She studied art and politics in London and communication design in Munich. She knows that reality is contradictory. But language can make it more bearable.

Friedrich Ani, born in 1959, lives in Munich. He writes novels, poems, books for young people, radio plays, plays and screenplays. His work has been translated several times and has received numerous awards, including the German Crime Fiction Prize, the Crime Cologne Award, the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Bavarian Television Prize. Friedrich Ani is a member of PEN-Berlin.

Peter Probst, born in Munich in 1957, studied German and Italian literature as well as Catholic theology. He soon began writing screenplays, including for Tatort. He has received numerous awards for his television plays. From 2006, he first wrote children's crime novels, then crime novels such as "Blinde Flecken" and "Im Namen des Kreuzes" (dtv). With the volume "Wie ich den Sex erfand" (Kunstmann Verlag), he began his coming-of-age trilogy set in the 1970s, in which music plays a central role. Probst will be reading from "Die wilde Wut des Wellensittichs"

Ez Kamil is not a trendy heartbreaker, but a soulful musician from the Munich hinterland. With a mix of melancholy, self-doubt and musical depth, the 20-year-old produces all of his songs himself - in the attic room of his parents' house. His complex, dark autumnal beats and reflective lyrics make him an independent artist far removed from urban clichés.

Daniel He is a young singer/songwriter from China, between near and far, Munich and Wuhan, who touches people with his voice. His songs, somewhere between Damien Rice and Nick Drake, are intimate snapshots that tell of the grief for his mother, the feeling of being a stranger in his own homeland and the search for new happiness. With an open-tuned guitar and a deep sense of melancholy, he combines neo-folk influences from the American and British scenes with his own cultural background.

Fritzi Noir & Timo Sarmiento have been a duo since 2024, opening up spaces with a warm sound of classical guitar, voice and gentle percussion instruments. Their interplay is delicate and reduced, yet rich in color and dynamics - music that carries, connects and lingers. Fritzi Noirhomme - named after her mother's surname, which she proudly bears as her artist's name - writes and sings songs that oscillate between poetry, folk and gentle melancholy. Timo Sarmiento initially found his musical path via the djembe and played in various samba and percussion groups.

Don Marco has been playing in various underground bands since the 90s. As singer, guitarist and songwriter in the indie garage band Fuck Yeah, he has released two albums and played with bands such as Maximo Park, Algiers and Frightened Rabbit. As Don Marco & die kleine Freiheit, he released two albums in German with various musicians. 2024 saw the live debut of his new band Drug Stop. Under his real name Markus Naegele, he earned his living as publishing director at Heyne Hardcore and recently joined the editorial team at Kunstmann Verlag.

King Brownie comes from Osnabrück, where he influenced a whole generation musically as a DJ in Hyde Park and supported the likes of Die Ärzte, Stray Cats, Hanoi Rocks, Bo Diddley and the Undertones. He managed Lüde & the Astros for many years and works as a record salesman.