Jakob Nolte liest -"Die Frau mit den vier Armen"

In the organizer's words:

Inline skates on his feet, strangulation marks on his neck, headphones in his ears. The body of a young man lies on the banks of the Ihme in Hanover. A case for the equally brilliant and brusque Rita Aitzinger and her colleague Ilia Schuster from the homicide squad. Between the opera, a station pub and a burger joint, they get deeper and deeper into a thicket of references: Pop songs, dating app profiles, mysterious tattoos - they are the key to solving the case, Rita is convinced. Or has she fallen into the snare of a psycho killer? Was Sebastian Tamm not the first victim? And what does the shy patrolman Gerd Lampe have to do with it?

"The Woman with Four Arms" tells of sad boys who seek happiness and find death. Nolte's narrative is abysmal, full of quirky characters and with a distinct sense of humor. It is about police work, justice and the question of whether one can be guilty of thinking like others.

Jakob Nolte, born in 1988, grew up in Barsinghausen am Deister. His plays have won several awards and have been performed on numerous European stages. His debut novel ALFF was awarded the Kunstpreis Literatur 2016. His novel Schreckliche Gewalten was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2017.

A series of events organized by the Mülheim Theatre Days in cooperation with the Theater an der Ruhr and the bookshop Bücherträume.