Jürgen Seidler liest aus seinem Berliner Kriminalroman Kalter Thron

Jürgen Seidler reads from his Berlin crime novel Kalter Thron:

Peter Ebuk and his daughter want to gain a foothold in Berlin. In his home country of Uganda, Ebuk put powerful men behind bars as chief of police; now he is back at police academy. When he falls in love with a female pastor, he thinks he has finally arrived - until he finds the body of Moses Lukong in her church. The Cameroonian pastor had traveled to Berlin to negotiate the return of Sultan Njoya's throne, a prominent exhibit at the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum. Officially, Sultan Njoya had given the throne to the German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1908 to prevent him from invading his kingdom. Moses Lukong hoped that the repatriation would bring peace to his homeland. Did he have to die because of it? Peter Ebuk investigates on his own initiative and delves deep into German colonial history.

Jürgen Seidler studied political science in Freiburg and Berlin. He trained as a theater director at the acting academy in Zurich. Today he writes screenplays for films and series, works as a dramaturge and is a lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. In recent years, he has trained young filmmakers in East and West Africa and worked with them on their projects. Jürgen Seidler lives with his family in Berlin.