Reading in the Damgarten library
The new book by author Bert Lingnau "Steile Hechte" describes 61 true criminal cases from the period between 1391 and 1953, which make us smile today or at least make us think. Miracle healers roam the countryside practicing hocus-pocus, electricity thieves cunningly tap into power lines and shrewd gardeners talk about horses. The crooks are extremely inventive.
You can look forward to sausages without meat, stubborn fishermen, whistling cows and movie theater owners who have film cracks. But there are also murders and executions - it's about Woyzeck, Hans Fallada, Rudolf Höß and crime in the GDR.
Bert Lingnau, born in Barth/Vorpommern in 1972, grew up in Zingst on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst Peninsula. He studied history and German language and literature in Greifswald, then completed a traineeship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk and worked as a cultural journalist for NDR until 2008. In 2003 he won the MV State Media Prize and in 2008 he was the winner of the Schwerin Crime Writing Competition. Lingnau has already published three books with authentic criminal cases from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The author, who lives in Schwerin, has worked for the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Media Authority since 2009. He has been the director of the media authority since 2016.
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