Panic heart
Panikherz is an autobiographical novel by the German writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , which was published on March 10, 2016 by the publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch . The 41-year-old author at the time of publication describes on 564 pages, divided into 39 chapters , his life, beginning with his youth in Lower Saxony , his professional success as a writer , the drug-induced decline and the multiple rehabilitation .
The autobiography was also published as an audio book , read by the author himself.
content
The autobiographical novel describes the author's childhood in the district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) , his youth as a pastor's son in Göttingen and from the abandoned German studies in Hamburg , where he took internships at the indie record label L'age d'or and the taz and as Critic for the music magazine Rolling Stone works. He became product manager at the record company Motor Music , gag writer at the Harald Schmidt Show and later pop literary , who published his first, very successful novel solo album in 1998 at the age of 23 . This is followed by a bulimic eating disorder , suspected attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder , alcoholism and cocaine addiction as well as several hospital and rehab stays. For Lars Friedrich von ttt , the book is “Stuckrad-Barre's addiction balance”. The lifelong relationship between the protagonist and the musician Udo Lindenberg and his music is also explained in detail. In 2015 the author flies to Los Angeles with the musician to stay at the Chateau Marmont Hotel .
success
In 2016, the novel was represented in the category non-fiction books in the Spiegel bestseller list from calendar weeks 13 to 42 , of which the first week was number one. It is ranked 85th among the “best-selling books of 2016” at the online retailer Amazon.com .
reading
The Germany-wide reading tour started on March 14, 2016 in the Markthalle Hamburg and ended on April 28, 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau .
Adaptations
On March 17, 2018, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg brought Panikherz to the stage in a version by director Christopher Rüping .
Reviews
"Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre finds precise words and tender humor in his very self-related book 'Panikherz' - even for the wreck that writhes in its vomit."
“'Panikherz' is a medical report. Or to stay in the pop genre, a 'Confessional Album', as the musical revelations are called, with which stars from the arid regions of convalescence report back. [...] 'Panikherz' also suffers from the notorious weaknesses of the genre, from self-pity and the author's overestimation of how many details and distances he can expose the readers to without boring them. [...] The book moves from sentence to sentence, from scene to scene, which are often brilliant individually, but do not move as a whole. The intangible becomes indecision. "
“Reflection, which Stuckrad-Barre now feels compelled to do, is less of his strength. The culture and media criticism that he soars into is very off the shelf: people who only take photos instead of experiencing something; the aging of pop culture and its protagonists; the 'handmade' in music as 'kitsch of authenticity'; the Beach Boys, who were really afraid of water - you've heard that a thousand times and you wonder how this author, so keen on originality, can even start with it. "
“In 'Panikherz', Stuckrad-Barre tells from the backstage area of this show that his life was. About the shine and the dirt, the pleasure and the pain of those years and how he first increased them and then numbed them, with music, then with alcohol, with drugs, until it was no longer possible. And he dissects again, this time himself. "
“Now, exactly 18 years after his debut solo album, but his 'Greatest Hits' album has grown out of him, a novel that no one believed would ever appear, least of all the author himself, who during the rehab Desperate over scribbled sketches in an addiction clinic. The book is called Panikherz - and it probably marks no less than the end of what we call pop literature. "
expenditure
- Panic heart . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04885-8 .
- Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre reads Panikherz (13 CDs). Roof Music, Bochum 2016, ISBN 978-3-86484-339-6 .
Others
In 2017, the Krefeld musician Patrick Richardt released a song on his album Should the time go by, entitled Panikherz , alluding to Stuckrad-Barre's novel.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Claudio Campagna: Survival with Udo. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . March 13, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Sascha Seiler: Unfortunately only vacuum. In: literaturkritik.de . April 4, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Exclusively in the new Rolling Stone. In: Rolling Stone . February 24, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Joe Paul Kroll: Comeback album. In: Culturmag. May 3, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Jan Drees : Farewell to the night. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . March 21, 2016, archived from the original on November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerrit Bartels: Grace of the second act. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 10, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Lars Friedrich: Panikherz. In: ttt - title, theses, temperaments . March 13, 2016, archived from the original on November 1, 2016 ; accessed on November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Ingmar Volkmann: Udo Lindenberg healed him. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 14, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Panic Heart . In: book report . Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Marcel Behling: Bestseller: The best-selling books 2016 . In: die-besten-aller-zeiten.de . Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ dpa: Big cinema: Stuckrad-Barre starts reading tour. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . March 15, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ^ "Between intoxication and fame". In: KulturJoker. April 28, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
- ^ Panikherz by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre in an arrangement by Christopher Rüping . In: thalia-theater.de .
- ^ Friedrich Küppersbusch : Stuck in the middle with you. In: Spiegel Online . March 12, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Andrian Kreye : The narrow-mindedness of drug addiction. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 9, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Edo Reents : The constant intoxication as an attitude. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 10, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Frauke Hunfeld: The show that was his life. In: Stern . March 13, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Florian Illies : The Prodigal Son. In: Die Zeit , issue No. 13/2016. March 31, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .