Alexander Hacke is obsessed with classical music at an early age, but then prefers to drop out of school and hang around in the West Berlin underground scene among punks, squatters and bon vivants. After his first music projects under the pseudonym Alexander von Borsig, he became a member of the recently founded Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980.

While the Neubauten became a groundbreaking and extremely successful band, Hacke not only experimented with all kinds of stimulants, but also continued to develop musically: be it together with his interim partner Christiane F., as an internationally successful solo artist, as a guitarist on Gianna Nannini's album Dispetto, as a film composer for Fatih Akin or together with his wife, the artist Danielle de Picciotto, with which he has been roaming the world since 2010.

'Krach' ist schillerndes Zeitzeugnis des wilden Westberlins vor der Wende, Aufstiegsgeschichte der Einstürzenden Neubauten und mitreißender Lebensbericht eines Tausendsassas in einem. Für die überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage ergänzt Hacke seine 2015 erstmalig erschienenen Memoiren um die letzten zehn Jahre und zieht die Bilanz seiner einzigartigen Künstlerbiografie zwischen Avantgarde-Kunst, Filmmusik und modernem Nomadentum.

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