Nils Strassburg: Living Elvis - Mein Leben für den King

Songs & Stories - more than a musical reading

Nils Strassburg has spent years delivering high-energy stage evenings dedicated to Elvis Presley. Tours across Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland, along with appearances at prestigious venues, have established this American-born performer as one of the most accomplished Elvis interpreters in the world. Now he steps into surprisingly personal territory.

With Living Elvis - Mein Leben für den King - Songs & Stories, Strassburg brings his autobiographical book to the stage for the first time as a musical reading. The deliberately intimate format sits somewhere between a concert, a book reading and live storytelling.

At the heart of the evening is not just the music but the story behind it: how does a fascination become a life's calling? What is it like to live in the shadow of an idol bigger than yourself? And what really happens backstage when the spotlights go out?

Strassburg reads from his book and recounts - with plenty of self-deprecating humour - his early performances, doubts and detours, family life and the moments when real life writes the best punchlines. Musically, well-known classics alternate with rarely played tracks in stripped-back, personal arrangements. The result is an atmosphere that moves and amuses in equal measure.

Songs & Stories is neither a conventional reading nor an ordinary concert. It is a personal evening of music, humour and candid insight - a chance to meet the man behind the show and see the Elvis phenomenon from a fresh angle.