Das große Finale der Rath-Reihe

The spectacular bestseller series in which Volker Kutscher takes his detective inspector Gereon Rath into the political and social upheavals in Berlin in the late 1920s began in 2007 with the novel Der nasse Fisch. In the final tenth volume of the crime series, the Rath family is now heading for a dramatic conclusion: after returning from the USA, Gereon has moved into hiding in Rhöndorf near Bonn and makes his way to Berlin to help Charly. She has to free Hannah Singer from the Wittenau sanatoriums and defend Fritze, who is suspected of murder. Hatred of the Jews grows and the Reichspogromnacht culminates in a development that Charly had foreseen and Gereon had long denied.

The historical location of the Nazi documentation center meets the fictional trepidation of the novel.

Volker Kutscher, born in 1962, studied German, philosophy and history and worked as a daily newspaper editor and screenwriter before writing his first crime novel. He lives as a freelance author in Cologne and Berlin. His novel Der nasse Fisch (2007) was an instant bestseller and was followed by others. The Gereon Rath series of novels is the basis for the international television production Babylon Berlin.

The event is a cooperation between the 65th Münchner Bücherschau and the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München.