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The next "Treffpunkt Stadtbibliothek" event, organized by the Mainz Library Society, will take place on October 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Cover of "Straßenköter"

A fast-paced 1970s thriller by Glauser Prize winner Jürgen Heimbach

1975: While the trial of the RAF’s leadership begins in Stammheim, Marlon—a young, apolitical man who ran away from a children’s home years ago—scrapes by in Hamburg as a petty criminal. But when he ends up driving the getaway car during a bank robbery, suddenly it’s not just the police on his tail—the serious criminals he’s gotten himself mixed up with are out to get him, too. And politics catches up with him after all when he suddenly finds himself at gunpoint, facing terrorists who want to free their comrades in prison. Marlon races through a country on
edge, all the while searching for his missing father…
Bestselling author Jürgen Heimbach presents a gripping, uncompromising novel about a young drifter confronted by the ghosts of his past and very real criminals.

Portrait of Jürgen Heimbach

Jürgen Heimbach, born in Koblenz in 1961, studied German language and literature and philosophy in Mainz. He worked as an assistant director at the Staatstheater Mainz, ran an off-Broadway theater, and organized exhibitions. Today he works as an editor at 3sat, lives with his family in Mainz, and is, among other things, a member of the authors’ association “Das Syndikat – Association for German-Language Crime Fiction.” For his novel *Die rote Hand*, Jürgen Heimbach received the “Friedrich Glauser Prize for the Best German-Language Crime Novel of 2020.”

Welcome
by Iris Hartmann
, Division Head of the Regional Library for Mainz and Rheinhessen

Reading
by Jürgen Heimbach

Closing Remarks
by Denise Cordes
, Mainz Library Society

Invitation to a reception

Logo of the Mainz Library Association

Notes

At the city library, doors open at 6 p.m., admission free, donations welcome.

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