Overview
- Organizers announced in late May 2026 that the tour will run from 1 February to 25 March 2027 with 15 dates across German cities and tickets available through Eventim and standard presale outlets.
- The program pairs shorter, lesser‑known stories by U.S. authors such as Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, O. Henry, Jack London and F. Scott Fitzgerald with live blues music.
- Music will be supplied by the Cologne Blues Club featuring guitarist Timo Gross and bassist Michael Gebhart, who play in the tradition of Robert Johnson and Leadbelly and form a second narrative thread on stage.
- Lauterbach says he conceived the idea during a holiday with Gebhart and intends the evening as popular entertainment rather than a formal literary reading aimed at moving the audience emotionally.
- The project builds on Lauterbach’s long history of staged literary programs and aims to use the overlap of American literature and blues to highlight themes of poverty, migration and social fracture while bringing a concert‑theatre feel to venues from Hamburg to Düsseldorf.