Something to sweeten the waiting time

Something is missing when you can’t do live presentations of your new book. But for known reasons it’s not possible right now.

In order to sweeten the waiting time until the next reading for me and you, I am showing you a little trailer for a reading concert – a format that the musician Jörg Walter and I have developed. While I am reading from a book, and it’s pictures are shown on a screen, he improvises the right music on a historical reed organ to that. We already did this kind of reading for my graphic novel on H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS – the trailer below shows a new reading of this format that combines my picture book THE LIGHTS OF PARIS – ÉMILE AT THE WORLD FAIR and my graphic novel adaptation of 20,000 MILES UNDER THE SEA, which is currently in progress. We look forward to holding such readings again as soon as the situation allows it!

Between Eiffel Tower and Nautilus

08. + 09. August 2020, 06:00 p.m.
Johanneskirche Berlin-Frohnau, Zeltinger Platz 18, 13465 Berlin, Gemeindesaal

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WAR OF THE WORLDS graphic novel concert

December 2nd 2019, 7:30 pm
Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek, Rathaus Charlottenburg, Berlin

Having something to announce! Next Monday, December 2nd, we are giving a book concert reading of my WAR OF THE WORLDS graphic novel at the Heinrich-Schulz-Bibliothek (a library) which is in the Charlottenburg town hall in Berlin (7:30 pm). Entrance is free!

I will read parts of the comic while beeing musically accompanied by reed organ player Jörg Walter, who wrote awesome musical leitmotifs for the parts I‘m reading and who will improvise about these simultaneaously. Imagine a black and white silent movie accompanied by live music, only with me reading the text from the balloons of the comic panels being projected to the screen, and you got a pretty close picture of what we have in store for you that evening!