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Article: Ulrich Woelk. Die letzte Vorstellung.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Hamburg. Hoffmann & Campe, 2002. 304 pages. 19.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-455-07911-3
MANY DETECTIVE STORIES begin with a murder, and Die letzte Vorstellung does not depart from this topos. Unlike others, however, Ulrich Woelk's latest novel couples the search for truth with perspectives and interpretations of history: namely, East and West German versions that are not only divergent but reveal competing truths as well. Shortly after an unidentified man was found brutally murdered in Schleswig-Holstein near the Danish border, two detectives arrive on the scene: Anton Glauberg, a forty-year-old local detective from the village, and Paula Reinhardt, a thirty-year-old rising ...