Growing up in the miners’ milieu of provincial Upper Austria, confronted with permanent changes of residence, being hijacked by the army in his mother’s car and washed up on the Greek island of Ios, Chris Müller struggles along with little savings, odd jobs and big dreams.

He meets his first great love, for whom he moves to a Berlin that is undergoing a titanic transformation after reunification. He earns a little less than the necessary small change by working as a construction assistant or playing extras in films. As a member and stage manager of a rock band, he gets to know showbiz.

After ten years as a rowdy and roadie, the Hausruck native returned to Upper Austria, where he studied at the University of the Arts, won NESTROY awards with Theater Hausruck and a little later seized the opportunity to become the founding director of Tabakfabrik Linz, which he developed from a disused industrial wasteland into an international creative location.

His career from school dropout and punk with a no-future attitude to Chief Visionary Officer and entrepreneur was by no means smooth sailing. He records the wild waves of his passions in this self-deprecating logbook, which guides readers through a concentrate of anecdotes, zeitgeist and everyday philosophy in time with the decades. A plea for creativity, daring, creativity and hope. An associative atlas for those who are on the move and rebellious, shipwrecked and searching, torn and wounded. Loosely based on “Moby-Dick”, he calls it “Watch out for the seagulls”, which can certainly be interpreted as a proclamation for sensing innovation.

Excerpt from the book “Watch out for the seagulls”