Wolfgang Schorlau and Village Blues

Reading and book presentation with Wolfgang Schorlau and musical accompaniment by the Village Blues

Wolfgang Schorlau became known throughout Germany for his exciting and exceptionally well-researched political thrillers centered around the main character of private investigator Georg Dengler. He doesn't just write thrilling crime novels - the Stuttgart-based author is concerned with the big picture. The economy and politics, the state and society. Schorlau was awarded the German Crime Fiction Prize in 2006, the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize in 2012 and 2014 and the Stuttgart Ebner Stolz Business Crime Fiction Prize in 2019. This time, Dengler's 11th case also involves personal matters: he travels to the Black Forest to visit his ageing mother, who sees eerie shadows at night. At the same time, a planned wind farm causes conflict - until the spokeswoman for the resistance is murdered. The dead woman was Dengler's childhood sweetheart and his investigations uncover a web of corruption and greed in a battle between renewable and fossil fuels.

For more than 20 years, the local acoustic rock blues band Village Blues has been interpreting classics with influences from rock, blues, soul and funk using acoustic instruments. The sound is characterized by two or three acoustic guitars, blues harp, drums/cajon and polyphonic vocals. The formation is inspired by musical greats such as the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd through to Neil Young, CCR and the Eagles. The audience can look forward to old classics and modern songs in a clear, carrying and always pleasant sound.

Deddy Schwindling - vocals, percussion, guitar
Sebastian Herzig - guitar
Ralf Wayand - drums, vocals

Musical guests: Jens Baumgart - guitar
Wolfgang Schorlau - blues harp

Admission: VVK 11.50 EUR - AK: 15 EUR
VVK at kartenvorverkauf@bluenoteio.de and at Buchhandlung Schulz-Ebrecht (pedestrian zone Oberstein, Carl Schmidt Inh. Sven Kritz e.K. (pedestrian zone Idar) and Tabac Faust e.K. (Birkenfeld)

Organizer: Blue Note e. V. in cooperation with the Kunstverein Obere Nahe e. V. and the youth welfare office of the city of Idar-Oberstein.

The event is supported by Kreissparkasse Birkenfeld, the Birkenfeld National Park District, the Bürkle Foundation Kirn, Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG and Raiffeisenbank "Nahe eG" Fischbach