Ludwig Blochberger: Das Buch der von Neil Young Getöteten

"The Book of Those Killed by Neil Young" is more than just the most beautiful, cleverest, craziest book ever written about rock music - it's a hymn to life. It begins with the infamous three-month colic - night after night, the narrator's newborn daughter writhes in convulsions. The only effective antidote: the songs of Neil Young. For father and daughter, a journey begins through the Canadian musician's cosmos towards lost illusions and fleeting moments of happiness. Writer Navid Kermani interweaves the everyday life of a young family with the big questions of life with a light touch and, as if by chance, it becomes clear where fragments of paradise can still be found: not only in music.

One evening in 1997, the 14-year-old teenager sneaks into the living room of his parents' house and grabs Neil Young's Decade album. In bed, he listens to the sounds of the singer, who was born in Canada in 1945, consciously and intimately for the first time with his headphones. It was to be the beginning of a long, never-ending passion. Since then, the former Viennese choirboy has never let go of Neil Young's music. Only a short time later, he bought his first guitar and taught himself to play. Like in a Woody Allen movie, he fantasizes about the bygone days of "good old rock 'n' roll". He could do next to nothing with the pop music of his generation. Neil Young becomes his obsession - soon all his music albums fill his cupboard. In 2001, he was finally able to see his idol live with Crazy Horse at the Waldbühne in Berlin. On the concert recording, you can hear his jubilation among the 22,000 spectators. In 2017, he played a "Tribute to Neil Young" concert at the Prachtwerk in Berlin with his own band. With a reading from Navid Kermani's "The Book of Those Killed by Neil Young" with live interpretations of Neil Young's songs on the guitar, Ludwig Blochberger starts a new attempt to pay tribute to the "Godfather of Grunge".

Ludwig Blochberger, born in East Berlin in 1982, studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He works for theater and film and is known to a wider audience as Inspector Tom Kupfer in the ZDF crime series "Der Alte" or as Riwal in the ARD series "Kommissar Dupin".

Line up:
Vocals, guitar, harmonica: Ludwig Blochberger