En 1976, David Bowie se encontraba en el punto álgido de su adicción a las drogas. Atormentado por la paranoia y el delirio de la fama, huyó del estridencia de Los Ángeles hacia Berlín Occidental. En la ciudad donde cada paseo termina inevitablemente ante un muro, se sentiría más libre que nunca.
Con vívidos detalles de la época, Reinhard Kleist retrata cómo Bowie se sumergió de lleno en el pasado, el presente y el futuro de Berlín con Romy Haag, exploró la decadencia de los locos años veinte; con Iggy Pop, se empapó de la música de Kraftwerk y Tangerine Dream. Y en los estudios Hansa, a la sombra del Muro de Berlín, su música más visionaria surgió del espíritu del pasado. En Berlín, Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack y el Duque Blanco se convirtieron en David Bowie?
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I was born in 1970 near Cologne. I studied at the school for Graphic and Design in Münster, where I graduated with the silk screen album "Abenteuer eines Weichenstellers" by the author H.C.Artmann. While I was studying, I worked on the two books "Lovecraft" and "Dorian". Now I live in Prenzlauer Berg/Berlin and work in the same studio as the comic artists Fil, Naomi Fearn and Mawil on Kastanienallee in Prenzlauer Berg. In 1998 I travelled to New York for four months, where I worked on the book "Amerika". I work as an illustrator for books, Cds, advertisement and animation. In 2006 the book "Cash - I see a darkness" came out and has since then been translated into french, english, spanish, dutch, greek, italian and portugues and soon chinese. I spend one month in Cuba in 2008 and worked on sketches for a travel book, which was published in the same year and has yet been translated into greek and korean. I also used this trip to do some research for a book about Fidel Castro, which appeared in Germany in 2010 and will be translated soon into english, spanish, french, portugues and chinese. Right now I work on a newspaper strip for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about a jewish boxer.


