Heiner Lauterbach

World literature & roots music:
Heiner Lauterbach presents "Like a Hobo"
Heiner Lauterbach is one of our country's greatest acting stars. His acting has shaped
German film of the last four decades like no other.
With "Like a Hobo", Lauterbach now undertakes one of his rare excursions to the live stages throughout
and explores the literary DNA of the USA, the great storytellers such as Mark Twain
storytellers such as Mark Twain, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
John Steinbeck, O'Henry, who have inspired and helped shape world literature and whose texts have lost none of their relevance to this day.
have lost none of their relevance today. He is primarily concerned with their essays and short stories
short stories, some of which were written before their great and well-known works.
As a great music fan, Heiner Lauterbach also draws the bow to the musical
storytellers who founded the blues and laid the foundations for today's soul, rock and pop music.
soul, rock and pop music. The COLOGNE BLUES CLUB feat. Timo Gross provides the soundtrack
to a tribute to "storytellers" such as Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Son House and others.
"Like a Hobo" is therefore no ordinary reading evening. Heiner Lauterbach presents a
show that brings together the greats of US literature with the country's great musicians
- a fascinating mixture of spoken word and music.