Willi Vögeli liest aus "Der Kollaborateur"

In the organizer's words:

The novel: September 1982 - the mutilated body of a young Antifa activist at the Palatinate Felsenmeer, a squat, old and new Nazis, an unscrupulous rocker gang and a commando cell of the third generation of the RAF . The investigations of Ludwigshafen detective chief inspector Wilhelm Beck make very slow progress until the discovery of a diary leads him on the trail of two Rhine sailors from Speyer who were tortured and murdered by the German Wehrmacht/SS in the Vosges in the fall of 1944 along with hundreds of resistance fighters from the Maquis. He begins to understand why the young Antifa activist had to die. Parallel to the investigation, the adventurous story of the young Alsatian Jean Francois Mutzig is told. In occupied Strasbourg in 1940, he is forced by the Gestapo/SS to act as an informer against the resistance groups of the Maquis, threatening the life of his half-Jewish mother. The two narrative strands come together in the final chapters of the book for the dramatic finale. The story takes place in the Palatinate, the Vosges and Argentina between 1940 and 1982.

The 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. Their grown-up daughter lives in Vallendar. Willi Vögeli has worked as a commercial clerk, bookbinder's assistant, shift worker, bank employee, educational assistant in a youth center and social worker in community psychiatry. The need to write was a recurring theme in his life. There was often a lack of time because a new professional challenge and/or a new hobby took up all his attention. After writing many short stories, it was only recently that he ventured into longer texts. His many years of participation in the writers' workshop at the University of Cologne was a good and important school for this. It was during this time that he wrote his first two novels about the Ludwigshafen detective chief inspector Beck.