Juli Zeh

Simon Urban

»Ein großer Gesellschaftsroman. Passt perfekt in unsere Zeit.« Christhard Läpple, ZDF Heute Journal Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen: Als sich Stefan und Theresa zufällig in Hamburg über den Weg laufen, endet ihr erstes Wiedersehen in einem Desaster. Zu Studienzeiten waren sie wie eine Familie füreinander, heute sind kaum noch Gemeinsamkeiten übrig. Stefan hat Karriere bei Deutschlands größter Wochenzeitung DER BOTE gemacht, Theresa den Bauernhof ihres Vaters in Brandenburg übernommen. Aus den unterschiedlichen Lebensentwürfen sind gegensätzliche Haltungen geworden. Stefan versucht bei seiner Zeitung, durch engagierte journalistische Projekte den Klimawandel zu bekämpfen. Theresa steht mit ihrem Bio-Milchhof vor Herausforderungen, die sie an den Rand ihrer Kraft bringen. Die beiden beschließen, noch einmal von vorne anzufangen, sich per E-Mail und WhatsApp gegenseitig aus ihren Welten zu erzählen. Doch während sie einander näherkommen, geraten sie immer wieder in einen hitzigen Schlagabtausch um polarisierende Fragen wie Klimapolitik, Gendersprache und Rassismusvorwürfe. Ist heute wirklich jeder und jede gezwungen, eine Seite zu wählen? Oder gibt es noch Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den Welten? Und können Freundschaft und Liebe die Kluft überbrücken?

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Zwischen Welten

October, 2011: while West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR s chairman is found murdered and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi. Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the West German police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D. "Plan D" is a gripping thriller and a thought-provoking alternative history in the vein of Robert Harris s "Fatherland" and John le Carre s "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.""

Plan D

Imagine a world in which the Berlin Wall never fell. A modern-day Cold War thriller: Robert Harris's "Fatherland "meets John le CarrE's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR''s chairman is found murdered -- and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi. Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the West German police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D. "Plan D" is a gripping thriller and a thought-provoking alternative history in the vein of Robert Harris' "Fatherland" and John le CarrE's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."

October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR’s chairman is found murdered – and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi. Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the West German police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D. Plan D is a gripping thriller and a thought-provoking alternative history in the vein of Robert Harris’s Fatherland and John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

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