As an author, acting star Joachim Meyerhoff became known with his autobiographical debut novel All dead fly high. Americathat acted centrally of his year abroad in the United States. In the meantime, America is anything else for the 57-year-old than a place of longing, as he did in the current interview with the Spiegel Clearly: “My American dream has burst.” At the moment he would no longer travel to the USA.