Johann Scheerer - "Play"

PLAY, the new book by Johann Scheerer
David is entangled in a web of art, children and creativity. As a music manager, he has to fulfill all the demands of the drug-addicted world star Ian White and accompany his tour. But he also wants to look after his four children and simply takes them with him. The starting point for dramatic conflicts that lead to absurdly funny situations. David is often only saved by humor and a sense of the astonishing similarity between the needs of artists and children. Nevertheless, escalation lurks.
This gripping novel tells of the struggle for balance, in which surprising beauty lies.

Short bio Johann Scherer
Born in 1982, founded his first band at the age of fifteen, signed a record deal with Sony Music at the age of 17, recorded his first album "Score!" 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" with an associated label and music publishing company.
Johann Scheerer works as a music producer with internationally renowned musicians such as Omar Rodríguez-López, At the Drive-In, Alice Phoebe-Lou, Vännäs Kasino, Wolf Biermann and Peter Doherty.
As a film producer, he won the prestigious IDA Documentary award for Best Music Documentary for the documentary "Omar & Cedric - If This Ever Gets Weird".
"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 and made into a film by Hans-Christian Schmid (23/5 film) in 2021/2022.
This was followed in 2021 by his second book, the coming-of-age novel "Unheimlich Nah".
His new novel "Play" will be published on 03.04.2025.