Reinhard Kleist: LOW. David Bowie’s Berlin Years (Graphic Novel)

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Now it's here, the second (and final) volume of Reinhard Kleist's David Bowie biography.

In 1976, David Bowie is at the height of ... his drug addiction. Shattered by paranoia and the hype of stardom, he flees from garish Los Angeles to (West) Berlin. In the city where every walk eventually ends at a wall, he should feel freer than ever.

Reinhard Kleist describes how Bowie plunges headlong into yesterday, today and tomorrow in Berlin with a great deal of contemporary color: he explores the decadence of the Roaring Twenties with Romy Haag, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream with Iggy Pop. And in the Hansa Studios in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, the spirit of the past gave birth to his most visionary music. In Berlin, Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack and the Thin White Duke became David Bowie.

Reinhard Kleist, one of Germany's best-known and most virtuoso comic artists, is a guest at the Romanfabrik. His comic biographies about Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and Fidel Castro, among others, have made him internationally famous.

Reading with discussion and as an encore: live drawing to music (on bass: Gregor Praml). Moderation: Jakob Hoffmann.

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