Premierenlesung "PARTYPEOPLE" + Aftershowparty

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Premiere reading "PARTYPEOPLE" + party with Ritual:Digital DJs

Author Stefan Sommer reads from his new novel "Partypeople" at Club Goldener Reiter. Followed by a party with the DJ collective "Ritual:Digital".

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, Infinitiy 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.The social novel of our time - to the beat of the social media generationRadically contemporary: about self-expression, success and exhaustion in the age of permanent publicity.Between the DJ booth in Versailles and luxury hotels on Mykonos - a linguistically powerful firework full of provocation and glamor.For readers:inside who are looking for the pop-cultural social novel of Gen Z.

"An incredibly captivating, funny, painful, radically warm-hearted story about an increasingly cold-hearted world. A book that sucks you in and never spits you out." - Elias Hirschl, author