Lesung von Willi Vögeli aus "Kollateralschaden"

The novel: November 1983. After the traumatic experiences of his last investigation, Wilhelm Beck has given up his job with the homicide squad and no longer wants to have anything to do with murder and manslaughter. His decision is shaken when his former colleague Senta Fischer sends him the desperate mother of the missing chemistry student Anna Lorenz. What was the relationship between Anna and Dr. Marlon Krabbe, a GDR dissident and hopeful for a large chemical company, in whose laboratory she was doing an internship shortly before her disappearance? Will the investigations in the Heidelberg fraternity, in the Mannheim drug milieu or in Krabbe's home town of Halle/GDR help him? Shortly after Chief Inspector Fischer comes across more unsolved cases of missing students, the body of one of the missing women is discovered in a garbage dump. Beck suspects that he only has a short time left to find Anna Lorenz alive. Then the Office for the Protection of the Constitution turns up and threatens him with drastic consequences if he continues his investigation. Beck has to make a decision.

Cologne-based author Willi Vögeli "suffered" through the terrible and beautiful eighties in his native town of Speyer. After living in Neuss and Bergisch Gladbach, he has lived in Cologne with his wife since 2010. Vögeli has worked as a commercial clerk, shift worker, bank employee and social worker, among other things. Writing always accompanied him, but he often lacked the time due to professional or private commitments. Only recently has he turned to longer texts. His many years of participation in the writers' workshop at the University of Cologne provided a valuable basis. It was there that he wrote his first two novels about the Ludwigshafen detective chief inspector Beck.