TRUGGESTALTEN kicks off with sold-out premiere

On Friday, my new book book premiered in the sold-out Roter Salon in Berlin's iconic Volksbühne theater. Actor Ulrich Noethen read from two chapters, followed by a Q&A. Meanwhile, first reviews have come in, including TIP and RadioEins. (“Truggestalten creates an impressive atmosphere... a clever montage, very convincingly assembled. A most successful fiction debut.” - Inforadio Berlin)
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My first fictional book will be launched in February. The publisher, Galiani Berlin / KiWi, has kindly arranged a book premiere on 17 February at 8 p.m. in Berlin's Volksbühne (roter Salon). Actor Ulrich Noethen will be reading an excerpt.
tickets: https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/lesen_rudolph_herzog_truggestal...
Buy book here: http://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/truggestalten/978-3-86971-148-5/

I have just returned from the annual "JA! Bilbao" festival on humour in art and literature. I had been invited to give a talk in the city's Sala BBK auditorium followed by a book signing. I was very favourably impressed both by the city and the quality of the event which is now closing its sixth edition. My visit was covered by El Mundo and various other media, of which I'm copying in a link below. The festival website, should you be interested, is jabilbao.com

As some of you may have noticed, I wrote a dozen or so film columns for NEWSWEEK (European edition). For those interested, I've attached some recent “peer reviews” of mine below. There are plenty more on the Newsweek web page and of course in the print issues.

Meanwhile, have a prosperous and happy summer and enjoy the read.

http://europe.newsweek.com/film-review-gentle-optician-confronts-his-bro...

http://europe.newsweek.com/film-connection-captures-gutter-charm-marseil...

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/24/dark-times-sunny-portugal-322901.html

Yesterday, the first reviews came back for my most recent film, The Peadophile Next Door, broadcast on Channel 4 (co-director: Steve Humphries). I've copied in some of the press responses and a short synopsis below. The film also rated significantly above the benchmark, coming in at 1.7 million live views.
UPDATE: Film was discussed in UK parliament briefly today 28-11-14

Press quotes:

"a triumph of brave and considered logic"
THE GUARDIAN

"a calm and sensible film"
-THE TIMES

"a groundbreaking documentary"
ITV

SYNOPSIS

Some reviews have come back from the two most recent projects I've been working on:

-My film A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY went out in Germany and France on ARTE and was reviewed very favourably by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's leading daily paper.
"a tale of negligence and hubris that makes one speechless... at other times one can't help but laugh out loud". Spektrum described it as a „symphony of the absurd“. The film also rated well, coming in more than a third above the benchmark.

The transmission date for my new film A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY (German title: "Die Atombombe im Vorgarten") has now been published, it's August 19th, at 09:50 p.m. on German/French culture channel ARTE. As a run-up to the broadcast, I did a 1 hour interview with German public radio. It includes stories from both the film and my book of the same title, as well as a more general portrait of yours truly. It will also be available as a podcast & stream from the HR2 Kultur website. I've attached the relevant details and a blurb below. All German language only, I hasten to add...

A first round of reviews has just come back for my new book, A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY. Please follow the link below to see an interview with me
on the BBC WORLD NEWS: http://vimeo.com/65658568
and a 1 hour reading on C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312985-1

QUOTES:
An eclectic, innovative approach to the bureaucratization of creativity during the Cold War.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books

My new film THE AGENT will premier on ARTE on February 5th at 9:55 p.m. (GERMANY) and 10:30 p.m. (FRANCE).

The documentary is about the former nuclear spy and Stasi double agent Werner Stiller. He risked his life betraying secrets to the CIA. He then fled communist East Germany, changed his identity and became a millionaire stockbroker at Goldman Sachs.