Readings

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]