NIMM PLATZ - KÖLNER LITERATURSOMMER MIT MATHIAS BERG

In the organizer's words:

Mathias Berg reads from the third volume of his retro crime series "Die Kriminalistinnen - Der stumme Zeuge"

December 1970: Four-year-old Liese disappears without a trace from a children's carousel - evidence points to an abduction. Lucia Specht, a trainee detective, and the Düsseldorf police team do everything they can to find the perpetrator. But while the investigation is in full swing, Lucia is unexpectedly called away from the highest level: she is to go undercover in Cologne's notorious gangster milieu. Events soon come thick and fast, and Lucia has to make a serious decision.

In the three-part retro crime series "Die Kriminalistinnen", Mathias Berg tells the story of the first women to be trained as detectives on an equal footing in West Germany from 1969. An exciting crime series and at the same time a literary journey into the late 1960s - a colorful, highly interesting picture of a time that was marked by social upheaval.

Mathias Berg was born almost three weeks prematurely in 1971 because his neighbor had shot his wife the day before. He has been writing since the age of 14, is married and lives in Cologne and the Vulkaneifel region.

The Cologne Literature Summer is curated by the Cologne Literature Scene

NIMM PLATZ am Neumarkt is a joint project of the Cologne cultural administration and the independent cultural scene, with contributions from the University of Music and Dance (HfMT) and the Academy of Media Arts (KHM).