Das kalte Werk
- Location:
- Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Büchsenstraße 33, 70174 Stuttgart
Book Launch
Reading and Discussion with Wolfgang Schorlau and Barbara Resch
Moderator: Winfried Hermann
Wolfgang Schorlau’s new novel “Das kalte Werk: Dengler’s Twelfth Case” tells of the shadows of the past and the brutal working conditions of the future—or the present? Georg Dengler and Olga face their most powerful adversary: MEGA1, the American tech billionaire, is being chauffeured through San Francisco. He dreams of ingenious innovations and a world in which no moral questions or democratic obstacles stand in the way of the strongest. His thoughts soar high into space—is that the place for a society of the future? Then news reaches him from East Germany: at his factory’s works council, the union is threatening to take over the majority. Meanwhile, Georg Dengler misses Olga, who has discovered a terrible family secret in Romania. The trail leads her, via a series of detours, to the cold factory north of Berlin. There, the situation comes to a head: at the very latest when a lifeless body is found in a car body press, it becomes a case for Georg Dengler.