Westend

Reading and discussion with Volker Kutscher and Kat Menschik | Moderation: Christian Westerhoff

Berlin-Westend, 1973 - a tape, an interview, a surprise: private lecturer Hans Singer visits 74-year-old retired detective inspector Gereon Rath in his retirement home because he is researching the work of the Berlin police during the changing political systems. The historian is particularly interested in the police murders at Bülowplatz in 1931 and two men who were wanted by the police at the time. This is because they later made a stellar career in the state apparatus of the GDR. To the discomfort of the retired commissioner, the conversation takes a surprising turn. Singer knows all about Rath's past, he knows his old colleagues and even his ex-wife. And he is on the trail of something that Rath does not want to talk about under any circumstances: events that took place in East Berlin in 1953 and in which the murders of 1931 also played a role.

In cooperation with the Library for Contemporary History