Moritz Hürtgen
Martin Kreutzer has great ambitions. But because fame and fortune don’t just come to you at will, he first has to prove himself as a trainee at a Berlin-based national newspaper. Lukas Moretti was his fellow student and even then, back in Munich, he had already been the star among the students. Since then he’s had his breakthrough with a mix of enervating Spoken Word Poetry, Performing Arts and euphoric electronic music parties. Martin boastfully announces to his editors that he will absolutely bag this interview. One hundred percent. He hadn’t actually known Moretti all that well back then, but what’s a little white lie if it gives you the chance to travel to Munich at the office’s charge to kickstart your career a little?
Unfortunately, Mister Moretti doesn’t want anything to do with the newspaper. Or with Martin Kreutzer for that matter. But should he let someone like Moretti ruin his career before it has even really picked up speed? Who needs a phrase monger for an interview full of very predictable empty phrases? And so, Martin Kreutzer spends the whole night writing until he is finally convinced that his editors will value his efforts. But then Lukas Moretti is found dead and things start to take unpredictable turns. The office decides to assign the case to Martin and send him to Kirching, the Munich suburb where it all began and where it will all come to a disastrous end…