Literature, Rock, Pop & Electronic Music
Rudi Dolezal: "My Friend Freddie" - The Freddie Mercury Experience
Wednesday, 27/08/2025 / 07:30 PM / House of the guest Graal-Müritz
- from 20.00€ to 23.69€
With "My Friend Freddie", Dolezal does not present an ordinary reading - but a dense, multimedia narrative form.
Rudi Dolezal: "My Friend Freddie" - The Freddie Mercury Experience
August 27, 2025 | 7:30 pm (admission from 6:45 pm)
House of the Guest Graal-Müritz, Rostocker Str. 3
A man who not only knew Freddie Mercury - but also worked with him, accompanied him, filmed him and experienced him over the years: Rudi Dolezal. Internationally award-winning director. Music documentary film icon. Friend.
With "My Friend Freddie", Dolezal presents no ordinary reading - but a dense, multimedia narrative form. Between chapter and camera. Between remembering and experiencing. What begins as a reading becomes a show: with exclusive, sometimes never-before-seen video rarities from Queen, personal archive material and direct references to what has been read. Afterwards: open Q&A. The audience asks. Dolezal answers.
His book is not a tribute. It is a testimony to the times. Mercury not as a myth - but as a human being. A clever, funny, contradictory, deeply touching man. The reading show takes up this perspective, reinforced by Dolezal's visual storytelling, precise recollections and trenchant analyses.
"I tell the story of how, as a long-haired hippie from Vienna's ninth district, I became Freddie Mercury's personal filmmaker - and ultimately his friend. " - Rudi Dolezal
"My Friend Freddie" is emotional without pathos, humorous without attitude. An experience that aims for depth rather than effect. It shows that pop history is not just surface, but substance. Dolezal knows how to bring Mercury closer - beyond glamor, stage and pose.
Comments on the reading:
- "Very moving, very emotional, great. I was crying at the end." - Maria Bill
- "A great show - Rudi can also go on tour in England and the USA with this." - Reinhold Bilgeri
- "When you listen to Dolezal, you feel like you've been there yourself." - THALIA Vienna, audience
Rudi Dolezal has worked with almost all the greats in pop history - from Bowie to Houston, from the Rolling Stones to Falco. He has won Grammys, MTV Awards, Echo, Cannes and Tribeca. His work has shaped generations of images. Now he talks about what remains - friendship, music, humanity.
Admission price for residents of the Baltic health spa Graal-Müritz & guest card holders: €20 / person
Note: Persons who are neither residents of the Baltic health spa Graal-Müritz nor in possession of a guest card are obliged to pay a daily visitor's tax in addition to the admission price.
Tickets are available in advance at the Haus des Gastes Graal-Müritz (Rostocker Str. 3, 18181 Graal-Müritz) or at the info point at the pier as well as at the box office - while stocks last!
Sale in the eventim-light ticket store: admission price: €21.69 per person (incl. ticket fee)
Onsale at eventim.de and all known advance booking offices: €23.69 per person (incl. ticket & advance booking fee)
Organizer: Tourismus- und Kur GmbH Graal-Müritz, Rostocker Str. 3, 18181 Graal-Müritz | Tel.: 038206 7030 | events.graal-mueritz.de
Photo / Poster provided: Rudi Dolezal / rudisworld.com
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