In 1969, Frank Schätzing is 12 years old and not exactly an expert on cool at his secondary school in Cologne. He may know The Lord of the Rings by heart but he’s clueless when it comes to pop music and soccer – and he doesn’t smoke, either. Then, one day, his life suddenly takes off: a new, long-haired music teacher plays a record: David Bowie’s Space Oddity.
From that moment on, nothing is the same – right up to the present day. This once-in-a-century artist has accompanied and enriched Frank Schätzing’s life ever since, oddly mirroring it and intersecting with it time and again. David Bowie – this ever-reinventing singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, director, storyteller – became a source of inspiration for Schätzing’s own creative journey: as an illustrator, musician, performer, and author of internationally bestselling thrillers and popular non-fiction.
