Navid Kermani: Das Buch der von Neil Young Getöteten

In the organizer's words:

Ludwig Blochberger presents "The Book of Those Killed by Neil Young" by Navid Kermani. The concert reading promises a special combination of music and poetry that touches the heart and inspires reflection. The actor will read from the author's biographical narrative and play selected songs by Neil Young live on the guitar in a passionate solo performance.

"The Book of Those Killed by Neil Young" is more than just the most beautiful, cleverest, craziest book ever written about rock music - it's a hymn to life. It begins with the infamous three-month colic - night after night, the narrator's newborn daughter writhes in convulsions. The only effective antidote: the songs of Neil Young. For father and daughter, a journey begins through the Canadian musician's cosmos towards lost illusions and fleeting moments of happiness. Writer Navid Kermani interweaves the everyday life of a young family with the big questions of life with a light touch, and incidentally it becomes clear where fragments of paradise can still be found: not only in music.

ABENDZEITUNG Munich

"The actor can of course perform well. But the former Viennese choirboy also has a very beautiful tenor voice and, above all, the right feeling for the music, and so the concept works brilliantly. A tour de force that can hardly be improved upon dramaturgically."