Panikherz (lit.

'Panic Heart') is a 2016 memoir or autobiographical novel by the German writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre [de].

The author had become successful in the 1990s as part of the Popliteratur [de] movement.

He recounts his dream of a rockstar lifestyle, his subsequent drug abuse and how the singer Udo Lindenberg ends up helping him.

[1][2][3] The Berliner Ensemble produced a stage adaptation in 2018, directed by Oliver Reese [de].