JOHANN SCHEERER /// ZECHE CARL /// ESSEN

Play

Wednesday, 10.09.25 | Zeche Carl | Admission: 19:00 | Start: 20:00 | Reading

VVK: 20€ plus fees | B.O.: 26€

Johann Scheerer works as a music producer with internationally renowned musicians such as Omar Rodríguez-López, At the Drive-In, Alice Phoebe-Lou, Vännäs Kasino, Wolf Biermann and Peter Doherty.
As a film producer, he won the prestigious IDA Documentary award for Best Music Documentary for the documentary "Omar & Cedric - If This Ever Gets Weird".

"It's magic what this young German did to my songs. He saved my life." Peter Doherty // The Libertines, Babyshambles.

And now 2025 his new novel "Play" - will be published on April 3rd and again by Piper Verlag Munich.

And that's what the new novel is about:
David is entangled in the web of art, children and creativity. As a music manager, he has to fulfill all the demands of the drug-addicted world star Ian White and accompany his tour.
But he also wants to look after his four children and simply takes them with him. The starting point for dramatic conflicts that lead to absurdly funny situations.
David is often only saved by humor and a sense of the astonishing similarities between the needs of artists and children.
Nevertheless, escalation lurks.