Lost in Music mit Ferdinand Kraemer, Daniela Schroll, möbelkröger, PolyStereo, Josef Winkler, Julia von Miller, Don Marco und King Brownie

In the organizer's words:

LOST IN MUSIC:

Stories from pop music

Event with readings and live music

IT'S A HARDCORE NIGHT was the name of a series of events in Munich at which authors, actors and celebrities read texts from their favorite books published by Heyne Hardcore, which still existed at the time, accompanied by local musicians and bands on the fly and then danced together.
Heyne Hardcore is now history.
But now the then publishing director and initiator of the event series Markus Naegele (also known as Don Marco as a musician and DJ) is bringing together what belongs together again under the motto LOST IN MUSIC (based on the cult book by Giles Smith).

Letters, (auto)biographical texts, articles, excerpts from novels from the wide world of pop music. Read aloud by authors, musicians, presenters and actors.
This is accompanied by live music on the fly, but not just any music, no, LOST IN MUSIC is also about the high art of cover versions, performed by local acts.
Afterwards, DJ friends play their favorite records and it's time to party.

Thu. 29.5.25, 20:00 (admission 19:00)

Readings:

👉 Julia von Miller (musician, presenter)

Josef Winkler (publisher of Muh, author for Musikexpress)

👉 Daniela Schroll (Kammerspiele)

Live music

👉 Ferdinand Kraemer

👉 möbelkröger

👉 PolyStereo

Moderation:

👉 Don Marco

DJ:

👉 King Brownie

This event is sponsored by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

The performers

Julia von Miller is considered an entertainment institution in Munich. She is also known as the "diverse one". Together with the writer Anatol Regnier, she creates incomparable programs about German history, plays theater in the audience hit "Beatles on Board" at the Hofspielhaus, is part of the HippieKammerOrchester, sings with the ODEON dance orchestra and is the front woman of LOS POPPOS. She is also an enthusiastic presenter of Blickpunkt Spot in the clubhouse.

Josef Winkler was a music journalist and editor at Musikexpress for a long time, for which he still writes the column Hirnflimmern. He also wrote a column called Zeitschleife for the taz newspaper. He has been the editor in charge of the Bavarian magazine MUH since 2011.

Daniela Schroll studied theater studies with a focus on pop and music-performative aesthetics and has been working for several years in various artistic processes in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig. She currently works as artistic production manager at the Münchner Kammerspiele and co-curates the MK music program. Since 2022, she has been working with Mira Mann on the ongoing development of the experimental series Intimacy Quarterly, which explores pop music and text.

Ferdinand Kraemer grew up in Gauting and got to know the Munich blues scene as a young guitarist, mandolin player and singer, which also introduced him to the American blues and roots music of the 1920s and 1930s. Together with the blues guitarist, singer and harp player Peter Crow C., Kraemer founded the duo Black Patti in 2011. The world-famous illustrator, founding father of the underground comix scene and prewar blues specialist Robert Crumb designed the cover of their 2021 album "Satan's Funeral". In April 2025, Krämer's solo debut "A Bunch of Birds" was released in twelve songs, on which he was supported by Theresa Loibl, Maria Hafner, Micha Acher, Mathias Götz, Adam Bradley Schreiber and Sebastian Wolfgruber, among others. The album oscillates between blues, jazz, country and a little bit of calypso and cumbia.

möbelkröger is the solo project of Michael Kröger (Goya Royal, Phil Vetter Band, The Ruby Sea, Butterside Down), who released his debut album "Sender Empfänger" on Intertune Records in 2025. Most of the sounds on the album were created with electric guitar, much of it alienated, deconstructed and reassembled, played backwards or in freeze mode. A keyboard is used sparingly, drum patterns and drum machines, but also an espresso machine in descaling mode at 167 bpm. Acoustic instruments were deliberately omitted. He presents his music live with guitarist Andi Blab (Byde, Sitter, Carrera), bassist Martin Heise (dezolat) and drummer Wompl Wall (Ukelites, Phil Vetter Band, Goya Royal).

The core ofPolyStereo consists of Janina Dietz (singer, songwriter and dubbing artist) and Tobias Wendl (sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist), who have known each other since working together on film and pop music projects with Justin Timberlake, Lang Lang and Toto, among others. PolyStereo was born out of a shared love for the analog world of synth and electro-pop. Their first album 'The Aquanaut' was created on a trip from Venice Beach to London to Abbey Road Studios. Now their second album is out, mixing spherical sounds with earthy guitars and retro synths.

Don Marco has been playing in various underground bands since the 90s. As singer, guitarist and songwriter of the indie garage band Fuck Yeah, he released two albums and played with bands such as Maximo Park, Algiers and Frightened Rabbit. As Don Marco & die kleine Freiheit, he released two albums in German with various musicians. 2024 saw the live debut of his new band Drug Stop. Under his real name Markus Naegele, he earned his living as publishing director at Heyne Hardcore, most recently as head of the btb Verlag program.

King Brownie comes from Osnabrück, where he influenced a whole generation musically as a DJ in Hyde Park and supported the likes of Die Ärzte, Stray Cats, Hanoi Rocks, Bo Diddley and the Undertones. He managed Lüde & the Astros for many years and works as a record salesman.