Reading with Rocko Schamoni as part of the 29th Schwerin Literature Days
The village punks come to the city: Rocko Schamoni returns to his personal roots
Summer 86, a young man travels to Hamburg to be there. He is 19 and wants to make music, celebrate youth, be an artist. He is drawn to Sankt Pauli, the fixed star of the crazies. He wants to enter the abyss, "where humidity and dark warmth make strange organisms dance". He meets the lemons, the doctors, the pants, the Neubauten - and searches for his own place in this world. The first thing he needs is a new name: Rocko Schamoni.
"Pudels Kern" takes us back to the years of punk, the basement nights, the broken tour bus and the big record deal. To the hopes and crashes. It is a glowing portrait of the artist as a young man: "Nothing has meaning anymore, everything flows, we are jellyfish of love."
Rocko Schamoni, born in 1966, is an author, entertainer, musician, actor and stage artist. He lives in Hamburg. His bestselling novels such as "Dorfpunks" and "Große Freiheit" have filled concert halls. For many years, he ran the legendary "Golden Pudel Club" in Sankt Pauli together with Schorsch Kamerun.
