Johann Scheerer

Johann Scheerer is a musician, producer, author, and founder of Clouds Hill – an independent music company in Hamburg comprising a recording studio, record label, publishing house, and film production. Since 2005, he has produced internationally acclaimed artists such as The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Peter Doherty, and Faust. He has also published three novels with Piper Verlag and writes regularly as a guest author for publications including Die Zeit, FAZ, and Der Spiegel. His work repeatedly engages with the economic transformations of the music industry and their concrete impact on the living and working realities of musicians. His incisive analyses of the current state of the music industry now reach an audience far beyond the boundaries of the business via social media.