Tocotronic singer, songwriter and guitarist Dirk von Lowtzow has announced a new book. “I emerge”, so its title, is to be published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in March 2023. Von Lowtzow also goes on a reading tour with it.
On Tocotronic’s Facebook page, von Lowtzow himself reports what his new book is about: “In it I tell about the year of involuntary rest, 2020/21, between my 49th and 50th birthday. What is initially conceived as a diary soon turns into a mapping of wishes, hopes and phantasmagoria in a world that is also ours – and yet a different one.”
His booking agency, TOM Produkt, describes it like this: “The book entitled »I emerge« is a diary novel about a year in the life of the musician. »I appear« is also the mood of a country in times of a pandemic, an odyssey of the everyday between doubts, fears, hope and love and the report on the creation of the Tocotronic album »Nie wieder Krieg«.”
“I dive up” is not only the title of the new book, but also the single by NIE WIEDER KRIEG, which Tocotronic recorded together with Soap&Skin:
Tocotronic’s current 13th album NIE DER KRIEG was released in January 2022. For ME author Julia Lorenz, “the biggest German rock band that never wanted to be a German rock band has erected a monument for itself.”
In 2019, Dirk von Lowtzow published his book Aus dem Dachsbau. As a musician, he has recently appeared alongside his main band as a guest singer on an EP by Charlotte Brandi.
With his new book, the author also wants to go on a reading tour, on which he will “interweave readings with Tocotronic songs from 30 years of band history” with an acoustic guitar. Click here for dates and tickets.