Music, discussion and live drawing with Reinhard Kleist
In 1972, the rock’n’roll messiah Ziggy Stardust was born. His provocative play on sexual identity and gender roles laid the foundation for David Bowie’s ascent to becoming one of the most successful pop musicians of all time.
Reinhard Kleist’s
STARMAN weaves together the gripping tale of this outrageous character’s genesis, rise, and fall, with David Bowie’s hapless efforts in the London music scene before Ziggy’s arrival, and the struggles he experienced with his own creation at the height of his fame. As Bowie transforms himself, ever more frenetically, into the egocentric rock star he first conceived, the extravagant lifestyle he had only ever imagined threatens to engulf him, and bring everything down before his eyes…
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating event with Reinhard Kleist: the event will start
with music from Raymond MacDonald before leading into a discussion, and Reinhard will be live-drawing throughout.
About the author
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Reinhard Kleist lives and works as a freelance comics artist and illustrator in Berlin. His international breakthrough graphic novel
Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness was nominated for the Eisner and Harvey Awards and received the Max und Moritz Prize for Best German-language Comic. With
The Boxer, he became the first cartoonist to receive the German Youth Literature Prize. Kleist’s other books include
Castro,
Nick Cave: Mercy on Me,
An Olympic Dream and
Knock Out!.
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