A book about a man who will not let anyone keep him down: neither as a German Jew in Europe nor as a homosexual in America.

Two generations separate them, but a friendship unites them: Friedrich Dönhoff (45) and Gerald B. Rosenstein, known as Jerry (86). In summer 2013 they set off on a road trip from Amsterdam to Bensheim, following the path of Jerry’s childhood and youth. A few weeks later they meet up again in San Francisco, where Jerry has lived since 1949.

Because Jerry wants to tell his story. After spending his whole life dodging questions about his past, he now wants to tell the account of what he survived as a Jew in Germany, Holland and Auschwitz – how he coped as a homosexual in the USA and how he found his inner freedom.

In Friedrich Dönhoff he has an attentive listener, one who writes his story without any trace of pathos, but with a great deal of sensitivity.

With a picture section.

English translation available.

Freiheit, Sexy, Lass uns leben, Wieder hier are songs that anybody in Germany could sing along to. But who is the artist behind them? Through in-person conversations with Friedrich Dönhoff, Marius Müller-Westernhagen describes what motivates him and what made him the person he is today. He recalls the Germany of his childhood, his early stage appearances in the sixties and later during a period of youth revolt, as well as the beginnings of a new kind of music that would change the world.

»The audience can tell if you’re genuine or not, be it an audience of three or thousands.«
Marius Müller-Westernhagen