Reading from the biography of the “forest man” and “police murderer” Bruno Fabeyer with Dr. Christof Haverkamp

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

Bruno Fabeyer from Osnabrück was one of the most wanted criminals in Germany in 1966/67. After the serial burglar shot a resident of the house, who had been a paraplegic ever since, one of the most spectacular manhunts of the postwar era began. It intensified after Fabeyer killed a popular police officer while fleeing. [...]

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Silence! – Crime reading with Judith Merchant

Café Koppelschleuse An d. Koppelschleuse 20, Meppen

At the Meppen Crime Days, Judith Merchant reads from her novel "Schweig! What would you do to save your sister? And what to get rid of them? The day before Christmas Eve, Esther drives into the woods to her sister's house to bring her a gift and a bottle of wine. A snowstorm sets [...]

12€

Shots at the Schiffercafé – crime story reading with Jochen Bender and crime music by Helm van Hahm

Jugend- und Kulturgästehaus Helter Damm 1, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Just a quick trip to the toilet, then quickly back to the safe car ... Svenja Behrendt has no idea that death is waiting for her right there. She will never come to Sweden by ferry. Strangled, she remains in her car on the quay as morning dawns. In the brutal murder case, inspector [...]

12€

A murderous couple – The promise and Christmas once quite differently – The first Christmas thriller by bestselling author Klaus-Peter Wolf: Reading with Klaus-Peter Wolf

JAM An der Bleiche 3, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Klaus-Peter Wolf lives as a freelance writer in the East Frisian town of Norden, where his hero Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt also practiced as a family doctor. Klaus-Peter Wolf's books have won numerous awards, and many of his scripts for "Tatort" and "Polizeiruf 110" have been filmed. Both the East Frisian crime novels with Ann [...]

15€

Reading: Jan Brandt – A house in the country / An apartment in the city

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

When he is looking for an apartment in Berlin, Jan Brandt learns that his great-grandfather's house in his East Frisian home village of Ihrhove is about to be demolished. The owner, a building contractor, sees no reason to keep the old when something new could increase profits many times over. Jan Brandt is threatened with [...]

10€

Reading: Ewald Frie – A farm and eleven siblings

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The historian Ewald Frie uses the example of his family to tell how the rural farming world of his farming parents came to an end, his siblings followed other lifestyles and the general social change gripped the country. Ewald Frie asked his ten siblings, born between 1944 and 1969, how they experienced this time. His [...]

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History before eight: Thinking outside the box: Archaeology in East Frisia – Lecture with Dr. Jan F. Kegler

Emsland Archäologie Museum

On this lecture evening, we will look beyond the horizon: the renowned archaeologist Dr. Jan Kegler, head of the Archaeological Research Institute of the East Frisian Landscape, will be a guest at the Archaeology Museum and will report on examples of excavations and research results from his area of responsibility. In the northern neighboring district [...]

6€

Butter to the fish

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The Meppen-based association Förderunion für Kunst und Kultur e.V. will be a guest at the Stadtmuseum on April 12 with the eighth edition of its talk format "Butter bei die Fische". Local players talk to national guests about topics that focus in particular on life in rural areas. A radio play sets the mood for [...]

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New research on the history of the Jewish cemetery in Meppen Lecture by Manfred Fickers (in cooperation with the Initiativkreis Stolpersteine Meppen)

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

The Jewish cemetery in the street "An der Hütte" is the oldest and only surviving evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. The first Jews settled in the town of Meppen around 1700. They acquired an elongated plot of land east of the town near the Hasen to bury their dead here according to Jewish rites. [...]

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