Johann Scheerer & Anke Engelke // "PLAY - My story with Ian White" - Szenisch musikalische Lesung

In the organizer's words:

The Harbour Front Literature Festival is looking forward to a special premiere: Johann Scheerer, together with dramaturge John von Düffel, the Clouds Hill Studio and the festival team, is bringing a new scenic-musical stage format to the stage based on his novel Play, which was published in April 2025. The multi-award-winning actress Anke Engelke will be reading along with Scheerer.

About the book "PLAY"

A drug-addicted rock star, four children and cell phone hell - welcome to the world of David, a music producer trying to keep control between crazy artists, backstage stress and childcare. Multitasking between work and family has never been so borderline entertaining!

In this exclusive reading of "PLAY - My Story with Ian White", David tells of the normal madness between art and children, the pace of which accelerates dramatically when superstar Ian White enters his studio and wants him to produce his latest album. The greatest opportunity of his music manager's life and a total fiasco merge. Actress Anke Engelke and musician and author Johann Scheerer bring this extraordinary novel to the stage together - with lots of music, even more humor and an unerring sense for the fractures and abysses of an artist and family world in which everything happens at the same time.

About Johann Scheerer:

Johann Scheerer formed his first band at the age of fifteen, recorded his first album "Score!" his first album in 1999 and went on tour in Germany. After graduating from high school, he got a record deal for his solo project "Karamel" and founded the recording studio "Rekordbox" in 2003. Since 2005, he has been running the recording studio "Clouds Hill Recordings" with the associated label and music publisher "Clouds Hill".

Johann Scheerer works as a music producer with internationally renowned musicians such as Omar Rodríguez-López, At the Drive-In, Alice Phoebe-Lou, Gallon Drunk, Wolf Biermann and Peter Doherty. " It's magic what this young German did to my songs. He saved my life." Peter Doherty // The Libertines, Babyshambles.

His highly acclaimed first novel "Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen" was published in 2018, followed in 2021 by the highly acclaimed novel "Unheimlich nah

About Anke Engelke:

Actress Anke Engelke presented on radio & TV as a child and gained journalistic experience at SWF3. She was part of the ensemble of the legendary Sat.1 "Wochenshow", and her series "Ladykracher" is still one of the most successful sketch comedy formats with eight seasons. Together with her congenial colleague Bastian Pastewka, she appeared in several editions of LOL-Last One Laughing (Prime Video) and in "Perfekt Verpasst", their first joint fictional series (also Prime Video). Most recently, Anke Engelke could be seen in the movie "Mutter". She is the German voice of "Dorie" and "Marge Simpson", among others, is part of the team of the children's television series "Sendung mit dem Elefanten", forms the podcast team of "Wie läuft der Tag, Liebling?" with Kristian Thees and is known for the reading programs "obstinate, headstrong girl!" (with Carolin Emcke), "Komisch!" (with Iris Berben) and "More Letters of Note" (with Devid Striesow and Jörg Thadeusz). Anke Engelke has been involved with the medical aid organization action medeor for over 20 years. She lives with her family in Cologne.