Bushido (autobiography)
Bushido is the title of the autobiography of the German - Tunisian rapper Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi alias Bushido . It was published in September 2008.
content
The composed his PR - consultant Lars Amend resulting book describes Bushido's childhood and youth, and his rise as one of the leading German gangsta rapper and his handling of his frequent scandals from its own point of view. His youth is described as being characterized by petty crime and negative experiences with love.
background
Lars Amend co-wrote Bushido's autobiography. Amend from 2005 until October 2008 Bushidos PR - consultant and began claims to be "on a five-week tour of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (...) Bushido's life to write down."
In the weeks leading up to the publication, Bushido cooperated with the Bild newspaper , which published excerpts from the book. An audio book , read by Bushido himself, was released on May 15, 2009 as a quadruple CD on Bushido's label ersguterjunge (distributor: Sony BMG ). At the beginning of 2010 the film Times Change You , which is based on Bushido's biography, was released.
reception
In commercial terms, the book was a great success. Bushido debuted at number 1 on many relevant bestseller lists and then for weeks on the SPIEGEL bestseller list. Bushido was after Hape Kerkeling , Richard David Precht , Gerhard Schröder and Pope Benedict XVI. only the fifth author to top this list in the non-fiction category within two and a half years . His book is the only one of the authors mentioned that debuted at number 1.
The autobiography was used by Oliver Kalkofe for his program Not Thoughts .
- Reviews
“ The belief in the chance, the willingness to want to make the exit and the promotion, that impresses me ... I was pleased and enriched to have got to know you in all your contradictions. "
“ Nobody will claim that Bushido is a mighty poet ... There are places where the entertaining suspicion creeps up that Bushido is making fun of the autobiography itself. "
“ A lyrical minimal alphabet not only presumes to clog the ear canals of our youth with its misogynist and gay-hostile stammering, but it now also joins the inexorably and threateningly growing number of those who absolutely have to muddle their lives into a biography . Worst of all, he is still successful with it. "
“ It has to be easy to be Bushido. Life is so nice and clear. All women are hookers except mom, whoever insults his mother gets in the face, who insults his mother, gets in the face, who insults his mother gets in the face, there isn't much more. [...] For pages and chapters it is about who said what to whom, when, and what who then said back to whom, and how then who looked, and what who said something crazy afterwards, and who then said to whom insulted his mother, whereupon of course, you guessed it, he gave in the face. "
literature
- Lars Amend and Bushido: Bushido . riva, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-936994-88-9 . (for one week in 2008 at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Amend: About me. (No longer available online.) Official website, archived from the original on November 17, 2011 ; Retrieved November 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Bushido is really good as a book author , welt.de.
- ^ Film review. Filmstarts.de , accessed on November 14, 2011 .
- ↑ a b The polite avenger ( memento of the original from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sueddeutsche.de
- ↑ Sensation: Bushido biography at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Why does one cause so much trouble? , tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ Bushido's book: A bit of peace , faz.de
