"The Hiding Place of the Voice" - Robert Görl, Hanna Rollmann - Book

Robert Görl – two lives. One on stage and one behind it. A life as a musician in the legendary band DAF, which makes Mussolini, Hitler and Jesus Christ dance, and one as Robert, who takes his laundry to the laundromat and then runs out of change (which happens often, but for different reasons). Who drives a taxi and is driven. Two lives? Does that tell the story? There is a crash in the middle of these two lives on stage and behind the stage. An accident that shatters the body of the musician, whose body is music, whose music is body. Almost completely. The first impulse is to get up and away. Just get away from here, get away somewhere, find a place. Find a place with a different sound. A place where you don't hear your voice loudly from the speakers, but inside you. Very quietly. And then you sit by the pool in Thailand with your eyes closed and feel that all these disparate lives are only possible because there is one thing that carries you. You feel the warmth from within. You feel the beat. Without this beat there is no life, no passion. No connection to all the people out there who have accompanied you. The DAF fan from Düsseldorf and the Robert Görl record collector from New York. Daniel Miller, Conny Plank, Steve Strange and Annie Lennox. And Gabi Delgado. In the same beat, with this passion, all of this has now been written down. An autobiography? Just an attempt, because what does life itself achieve?