Champagne Performance with author Frédéric Schwilden

Writer Frédéric Schwilden reads from his newly released novel “Toxic Man” (Piper-Verlag), drinks champagne, and chats with art critic Silke Hohmann about genuine drugs, wrong guys, and genuinely good art. 
His father dies, he gets married. His biggest photography exhibit to date opens in Cologne. The narrator is on the verge of his breakthrough as an artist. His wife is having their first child and falls into depression. His cousin drinks to the point of organ failure; his best friend disappears into the sea. He himself butts his head against the wall until he passes out. And then?
“Toxic Man” is an autofictional story about escaping the terror of the middle class, about self-invention, self-presentation, and near self-annihilation.
The reading will be in German language.