New Vahr South

Unabridged author reading - Mr. Lehmann 9 years earlier. We are located in 1980 on the Neue Vahr Süd, a not at all picturesque new building district in the east of Bremen. For Frank Lehmann, who has just finished his apprenticeship, still lives with his parents and somehow forgot to refuse military service, it will be a hard six months. After a quarrel, he manages to move out of his parents' house and into a shared flat in the student quarter Ostertor, but he has not found a new home yet, and the Neue Vahr Süd (New Vahr South) keeps catching up with him. And while he, still puzzling over how it could come to this, has to stand at attention in the barracks and crawl through the grounds, his friends are fighting for their version of the proletarian world revolution, against the military and armament and for Sibille, without having asked her for her opinion beforehand. Torn between rebellion and resignation, Frank Lehmann fights hard at the abyss and with all permitted and prohibited means for his own dignified existence between two contradictory worlds. Sven Regener has succeeded in creating a comic and at the same time oppressive novel that shows us his hero's departure into a confusing future from a side of the early eighties that we thought we had successfully repressed. Sven Regener, born in Bremen in 1961, won the hearts of Germans as a musician with the band Element of Crime; he is considered "one of the finest pop poets in the German-speaking world", his debut novel "Herr Lehmann" stormed the bestseller lists, received the Corine Prize and was filmed by Leander Haussmann. For the screenplay Regener received the German Film Award in Gold in May 2004. 12 CDs in box