Bodo Kirchhoff

Bodo Kirchhoff: Pulp Fiction

Things start to go horribly wrong for contract killer Willem Hold at the Frankfurt Book Fair. First he kills the wrong man, then he falls in love with the right woman. A classy call girl, a private eye, a famous literary critic and an ex-newsreader all appear in Bodo Kirchhoff’s satire on German high society. Similarities to persons living or dead may not be coincidental!

Pulp Fiction (Hotel Burger, in Frankfurt’s Ostend)

Frankfurt’s Ostend was always a dump, it is today and in future always will be a dump, no matter how many galleries full of bizarre stuff and gaudily decked-out bars open up in all those factory spaces around the European Bank’s new restricted zone, a building like the Ostbahnhof station was enough to depress a whole district and the people who lived there, maybe not those who had moved into the area, they were essentially just on the way through, but the old-timers, and Willem Hold still counted himself one of them. More ...

Pulp Fiction (from the Ostend to Opernplatz)

Showered and shaved, and after having paid for his room in advance, including a tip, he left Hotel Burger – his gun under his belt, and a department store bag in his hand, containing the H&M coat and woolly hat. He went towards Allerheiligentor ...More ...

Pulp Fiction (Frankfurt Book Fair)

In the following hours of this second, renowned as the most hectic, day of the Book Fair, both public and hidden events came thick and fast between the Westend, the cider-soaked southern district, the railway station and the north of Frankfurt...More ...

Dresden Quiz

Test your knowledge of Dresden with our Dresden Quiz. The questions are about Dresden-related literature, as well as important places, traditions and events. Enjoy!

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