Murder mystery authors lured 150 fans into the factory

Second reading at Kirson / Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr presented "Superintendent Kluftinger"

MAUERN (jd). A second reading event held by Kirson in one of their factory halls witnessed a considerable increase in the number of visitors. This week, more than 150 literature fans were eager to experience the two murder mystery writers Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr, creators of "Superintendent Kluftinger".

Kirson's Managing Director, Jörg Göhl, had every reason to be delighted as he opened up the reading which he organised together with Silke Nagel (from Nagel bookstore in Abensberg). More than 150 visitors meant that around fifty percent more book lovers came than a year previously. For Mr. Göhl also felt that this supported his belief in the importance of books and reading. He believes that education and advanced training are essential for employees working in an expensive economic location such as Germany if we are not to be overtaken by competition located abroad.

Mr. Göhl expressed the opinion that "In this respect, reading is, if anything, the most important prerequisite of them all," and thus tossed the ball into the court of the two writers. "We had no idea that it is our job here to educate," they answered and then joked their way through the prelude to their reading.

In their reading, they presented "Seegrund", the second volume of their Kluftinger murder mystery series which has turned into a huge commercial success, just like the two volumes which have appeared so far. "Seegrund" alone was in the bestseller lists of the magazines "Spiegel" and "Focus" for nine months.

These two writers from the Allgaeu have created a stroke of genius with the character of superintendent Kluftinger and his cases. On the one hand, they have added another brash variant to characters such as Columbo or Superintendent Thiel ("Tatort"). On the other hand, they have anchored the agent in a very rural environment, the Allgaeu, and thus successfully chosen a trend which is currently often referred to as a regional murder mystery. Furthermore, something which is applied with intensity in "Seegrund", Messrs. Kobr and Klüpfel place importance on the use of numerous gags.

Of course, the joker is the superintendent himself and the first hundred pages of the book contain so many reasons to laugh that you tend to ask yourself "When is the real suspense finally going to come?" Either way, the audience in the Kirson dispatch hall enjoyed the hour-and-a-half-long reading, which was confirmed by the numerous laughs.

The reading ended just as it began – with a joke. To finish off, the writers gave the visitors a tip "Always take a good book to bed! Or someone who has just read one."

If you want more entertainment, then start reading. We can guarantee boredom will never be a word you equate with Kluftinger.