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As the NSU-Nagelbombe in Film, theatre and murder mystery hit,

In Cologne, Germany set fire to right-wing extremists a Nagelbombe. Twelve years later, lighted now by a documentary of the events: “The Kuaför from the Keupstrasse”. But also in theatre and literature works the assassination attempt.

Steel nails falling in slow motion down, accompanied by spherical sounds. When dropped on the concrete floor stieben you with a metallic Clink apart. The camera focuses on the nails sometimes sharp, sometimes blurry. With such images is staged by Director Andreas mouse game with the perception – a trick which also is supposed to show: What can not be, must not be. In mouse’ documentary “The Kuaför from the Keupstraße” appears on the Nagelsequenz several times, like a Flashback to a bad trip.

The Film is reminiscent of the Nagelbombenanschlag in Cologne’s Keupstrasse on 9. In June 2004, in which 22 people were injured, four seriously. It lasted seven years, until the guilty feststanden: terrorists of the extreme right-wing “national Socialist underground” (NSU). The then Federal Minister of the interior Otto Schily had an act of terrorism is excluded, and the offenders “in the criminal Milieu” of the mainly of Turks inhabited district is located. A fatal miscalculation, the victims, the perpetrators made and the trust in the rule of law are destroyed embarrassing for the police as well as politicians.

Documentation with device

The “Kuaför” from the Keupstrasse

During the legal investigation in the Munich NSU process, such as a chewing gum, stretching, running in the cinemas mouse’ Film – a mix of Reportage, Interviews and such Kunstbildern. The hearing has mouse actors speak. Originalprotokolle from the investigation files were used as the source. Mouse takes the perspective of the residents and makes them tell what they have been through. The centerpiece is a Turkish hairdresser, in whose Salon the bomb exploded. A confectioner occurs, the owner of a business for your wedding needs, a jeweler and a CD dealer. “The whole road was under suspicion,” says mouse of the German wave, “incredible, how the police has tried these people in a certain corner.”

Director Andreas Mouse

That changed only in 2011, when the rechtsterroristische NSU broke and a Bekennervideo to the attack was discovered. It was like a liberation for the inhabitants. For the tenth anniversary of the assassination attempt of 2014 came Federal President Joachim Gauck in a hairdressing salon in the Keupstrasse over. Also shows mouse in his documentary film – the NSU-process and the principal defendant, Beate Zschäpe, however, are not.

A political crime Thriller

A whole other art form has Wolfgang Schorlau elected to the NSU-scandal set the scene: In his political Thriller “The protective Hand” he also the security authorities, not against the perpetrators, but against the environment of the victims of the NSU murder series determine. Documents to be shredded, the protection of the Constitution has its fingers in the game: “What if that no mere Behördenversagen? Who holds his protective Hand over the murderer?”, ask Schorlaus novel. “The protective Hand” bears documentary trains. The facts used quotes from acts and real photographs – the author has carefully researched and then to the fictional narrative interwoven. “There are in the NSU-complex so many things are happening, which is completely implausible would be if you non-fictional daherkämen,” says Schorlau of the German wave, “so I had to make credible that you actually played as such.”

The German authorities, accusing the author of a “disinformation of the Public”. False statements were disseminated, facts are bent, information is swept under the carpet. In addition to the official narrative of the writ in the Munich NSU process hervorgehe, there was a second level full of unanswered questions. “That outraged me, on the one hand,” says the author, “it fascinates me but at the same time.” Many of his readers it is probably similar to: “The protective Hand”, published by kiwi, has within a few weeks, with 200,000 copies sold. The Text contained references are for a Thriller although unusual, you increase the credibility of the author.

Sezene from “The gap”

It is Schorlaus eighth crime novel to the Swabian investigator Georg Dengler. “In my books I try to find out,” says Schorlau, “how much realism literature compatible”. The author, Born in 1951, lives in Stuttgart. With nearly 50 years he gave the Geschäftsführerposten a Software company, to his first crime story to write. 2006 Wolfgang was Schorlau he with the German Krimipreis excellent.

The gap in the society

Only a stone’s throw from Anschlagsort in the Keupstrasse removed, the Schauspiel Köln will be in temporary quarters opened. Since two years you are here Nuran David Calis’ play “The gap” on, on 1. March 2016 for the 50. Time. Also “The gap” gives the Victims a voice. The author, Director and filmmakers is even residents and business people, together with actors on the stage. To display the events need a few pictures of the destroyed Keupstrasse and from a surveillance video. It pushes one of the two bombers be prepared bike by the shops. Facts, Protokollauszüge and dialogues will be presented. Calis’ message: The Nagelbombe deepened the rift between the Turkish parallel world and the German majority society. Ermittlungspannen coagulate institutional racism.

In Dresden, the currently xenophobic Pegida demonstrations, speeches, power, staged in the Theater “My German Land” by Thomas Freyer, the CSU-chronicle as a kind of Langzeitkrimi. In Münster brings the local theatre “German Victims” of Tugsal Moğuls, and as a tour de force through the Faktenflut and the hair-raising inconsistencies of the NSU-complex.

The NSU – fabric-for-television

Surviving as an actor in “The gap”

During the in may 2013 started the process before the Oberlandeslandgericht Munich continues, in which Beate Zschäpe as a Survivor of the NSU trio must answer for, flickered just the first docu-Drama about the accused and their alleged crimes on German television screens. “Last exit Gera – Eight hours with Beate Zschäpe” has the events for Filmstoff made. Nearly 2.5 million viewers watched the ZDF production, in the there are many fictional scenes in the authentic sources keep. It will not be the last film on this topic – when the ARD is a three-parter in the works.