Reading with Tomas Blum as part of the 23rd Ahrenshooper Literaturtage
Matthis Andres is a helper. His willingness to help goes so far that he even takes responsibility for a broken finger in exchange for a bribe. It is this finger that makes him suspicious: Matthis Andres, who has been killing for years just to help - and who betrays himself with the diary about his 99th victim. "I'm afraid that people might look at me. Maybe then they would discover it. How helpless I am. Sometimes I think I'm afraid of the day because I don't know what I enjoy. And when I do know, I'm afraid to just do it. Only when it comes to helping, I'm not afraid. I just do it. I am a helper. - Is there unconscious fun?"
Tomas Blum has worked on numerous projects as an author for awareness campaigns and was a ghostwriter for a political organization on public safety issues, including crisis scenarios in the areas of food emergency preparedness, energy security and cyber security. In 1996, the radio play "Kriechströme" was published by Saarländischer Rundfunk, and in 1998 the story "Beihilfe" was published by Ullstein Verlag. In 1997, he received a scholarship from the Literary Colloquium Berlin for the draft novel "Der brennbare Mann". In 2016, the play "Der Kuss" premiered on the Reduta Berlin studio stage, followed by "Eine europäische Dame" in 2018. In 2019, the novel "Wofür wir uns schämen" was published by Liesmich Verlag in Leipzig.
Admission: 30 minutes before the event
