Heilandskirche

Admission and information booths for support services

Live bands: RAGE - Power Metal and Last Turion - Prog Metal. Bazaar with support services from Sinus Hospice, the Suicide Prevention Network, the Telephone Counseling Service, the Lebenshilfe Verein Metality e.V., and the Wish Wagon. Also: Author Oliver Uschmann and presenter Sabina Classen from the band Holy Moses and Hamburg's Metal Queen.

Opening and welcome by Sara Burghoff, Sabina Classen, and Matthias Bähr. With information on the idea, the background of the event, and the schedule.

How to deal with death without going crazy? One method: laughter. Finding the tragic comedy of existence even where tears are shed. This happens in the novels of the "Hartmut und ich" series as well as in young adult books like "Meer geht nicht." Transience resonates everywhere, prompting the characters to throw themselves into life: grimly, exuberantly, inspiringly. Uschmann acts out scenes from the books, talks about his work as a eulogist and storyteller of past lives, and his adventurous relationship with the Almighty.

Progressive Rock and Metal, with the band around the drummer from RAGE. Last Turion is a German progressive rock band founded in 1990 that quickly established itself as a fixture in the German prog scene. In 1991, the first album Circle Logic was released, and the breakthrough came in 1996 with the second album Seduction Overdose. Despite their success, the band broke up in 1996 and was inactive for decades. After a break of almost 30 years, Last Turion has now reunited to celebrate the anniversary of Seduction Overdose and bring their music back to the stage.