Jochen Distelmeyer

“No other German songwriter is equally skilled in shaping into words and music the finely nuanced, at times terribly hazy feelings that worry us in so touching and precise, so brutally lucid a manner.” Spiegel Online

The unique poetic lyrics by Jochen Distelmeyer – frontman of the band Blumfeld, composer and songwriter – have long become “members of the pop DNA” (taz). With albums like Ich-Maschine, L’État et moi and Testament der Angst, Distelmeyer and Blumfeld have set standards for several decades. Jochen Distelmeyer is currently on a musical reading tour to present his debut novel OTIS. In OTIS, he takes readers on an aimless journey through a world in limbo, the story of a modern-time odyssey. In contemporary Berlin, men and women, poets and darts players, myths and politics meet, as old songs combine with chants of this day. www.jochendistelmeyer.de