Max Richard Leßmann is a singer, podcaster and poet. At the age of 14, he founded the band "Vierkanttretlager" together with three school friends, with whom he reached 6th place for Schleswig-Holstein at Stefan Raab's Bundesvision Songcontest 2012. In 2017, he released his first solo album entitled "Liebe in Zeiten der Follower". The occasional poems on Instagram have now become daily releases for almost three years, which he shares with his now 90,000 very active followers*. Together with his colleague Elena Gruschka, he runs the podcast "Niemand Muss Ein Promi Sein". Max Richard Leßmann is 30 years old, grew up in Husum on the North Sea and now lives and works in Berlin.

In April he will read for the first time in Cologne from his poetry book "Liebe in Zeiten der Follower", which is published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in November 2022.