Never Full

About Being Hungry for Life and 401 Pounds on the Scale

  • How a punk band frontman took a break for a few years and lost a third of his weight

During the turbulent years when his punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet is rising to the top of the German music scene, frontman Monchi is always at full throttle. Until the band takes a break, and, for the first time, he has the time and space to confront himself. The scale tells him that the time is ripe: he weighs in at 401 pounds.

For as long as he can remember, Monchi has always pushed the limits and beyond. As someone who likes to hog the limelight and as the pugnacious mouthpiece for the band, his motto is: “All or nothing!” But this applies just as much to his countless crashes and drunken stupors in pubs and on tour. When binging has long since become the norm for him, he begins to question his certainties and habits. Understanding follows failure. He learns a lot about his own contradictions and quirks, about identity and the influence society can have on how we see ourselves.

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Paperback
  • Release: 07.04.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00259-1
  • 320 Pages
  • Author: Monchi
Buchcover von Never Full: Über den Hunger aufs Leben und 182 Kilo auf der Waage
Monchi Never Full
Portrait von Monchi
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Monchi

Monchi is the singer and lyricist of Feine Sahne Fischfilet, with whom he has gone from playing at youth centres to headlining Rock am Ring since 2006. In 2016, the band launched the campaign “Not completely screwed yet. Standing together against the shift to the right” and has since organised the “Wasted in Jarmen” festival on a regular basis. In 2018, the award-winning documentary “Wildes Herz”, directed by Charly Hübner, was released, exploring the band’s social and political activism and Monchi’s life story. In 2022, Monchi’s book “Niemals satt” was published and reached number 1 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list. “Wir kommen in Frieden”, his band’s latest album, reached number 1 in the German album charts in 2025.