Other people's dreams

How do you turn a fairy tale into real life?

Album, promotion, tour. For nearly twenty years, the dynamics of the music industry have shaped Judith Holofernes' life. During this time, she has become one of the most well-known and influential singers of her generation with Wir sind Helden and her solo project. In her autobiographical book, she reflects on the time after the band, on crises, dreams, and a pivotal decision - revealing herself as a sensitive storyteller.

With great clarity and tenderness, along with her unique wit, Holofernes writes about the curse and blessing of the early success of the band; about balancing family life with being a frontwoman; about the public perception of her own body, growing up with her lesbian mother in Freiburg; about the profound cuts in her life, the doubts, the pain. She repeatedly addresses the music industry, her relationship with her fans, strange concerts in daylight, as well as the rigid mechanisms of the business and sexism.

Judith Holofernes compellingly illustrates in "The Dreams of Other People" how she gradually freed herself from the commercial constraints and narrowness of the music industry. How she became the artist she had long wanted to be - and thus reclaimed her life.