In the organizer's words:

Stefan Sommer reads from his novel "PARTYPEOPLE" (Oto Müller Verlag 2026)

Accompanied by a talk and drinks!

Moderation: Sophia Bahl

The social novel of our time in step with the social media generation

The first-person narrator in Stefan Sommer's new novel has everything and nothing: as a successful techno DJ, he is flown to the private parties of the super-rich, has haute cuisine chefs cook for him and spends the night in grand hotels. A luxurious life between helicopter flights, infinity pools, champagne and the increasingly grotesque desires of a superstar who is bored with himself and the world. In between: Loneliness. Designer drugs and painkillers only help temporarily, and Christian, a married man, quickly disappears from the DJ's life. During his relentless rush around the world, the narrator realizes at some point that he is running away: From the loss of his mother, who passed away years earlier. Since then, he has worn her favorite flowers as a tattoo on his skin - a tender attempt to counter the harshness of the success industry.

Partypeople takes a coldly comic look at the world of big money: it tells of rich kids, tech oligarchs, performative masculinity and new capitalism. One hopes for a way out, and yet suspects that there can be none.

Stefan Sommer, born in 1989, grew up in a small Swabian community. Even as a small child, his grandfather predicted that he could only become a priest or an actor. It turned out similarly, but differently. The thirty-four-year-old author now lives in Munich and works for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Bayerischer Rundfunk. He writes reports and essays about pop music, society, body politics, Harry Styles, climate activism and dating portals for anti-vaccination activists. Awarded the "International Music Journalism Award" 2020 in the category "Best music journalistic work under 30", the "Ernst Schneider Prize" for business journalism 2021 and a literature scholarship "Young Art and New Paths" 2021 by the Free State of Bavaria.

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