(c) Charlotte Goltermann

Andreas Dorau/Sven Regener

(Berlin)

Die Frau mit dem Arm – Leseshow

Mousonturm Saal

Reading

It’s show time! They are back on tour – Andreas Dorau and his congenial partner Sven Regener. Because they’ve done it again: written a book, a sequel to the indie bestseller „Ärger mit der Unsterblichkeit“ (“Trouble with Immortality”). Just as funny, just as instructive, just as brilliant: „Die Frau mit dem Arm“ (“The Woman with the Arm””). A better artist combo than this eccentrically clever literary duet of Dorau-Regener is hardly conceivable: Andreas Dorau, the master of eccentricity, the inventor of Photoshop before Photoshop existed, surprise thinker in the recording studio, the eternal pop secret tip between electro beats, ingenious text ideas and penetrating earworms on the one hand, and the equally melancholic and angry writer and musician Sven Regener, the master storyteller of Kreuzberg universes as they exist everywhere in the world. The result is an adventure novel about Andreas Dorau’s journeys through the world of pop from the noughties to the present, peppered with one fresh idea after another about art, the culture industry and the precipices and pitfalls of so-called life, which the artist best tackles with a firework of wit and stubbornness… This is the best material for a self-made touring revue with Sven Regener and other supporters appearing with Andreas Dorau: as readers, as musicians, as the magicians of images, sound and film.