"Das Vogelhaus"

Reading and conversation

Leonard Beck always dreads opening his post - and sure enough, it is an unremarkable letter from his mother that draws him back to the Lower Rhine after years away: a house is up for sale. It holds no good memories, yet he feels compelled to go.

He travels home, and with it back into his past. He meets people who once mattered to him and finds himself standing again and again before the house whose secret he could never uncover. Now he wants to get to the bottom of it, face his fears - and confront his great love.

Jan Weiler, born in Düsseldorf in 1967, is a journalist and author. He served for many years as editor-in-chief of SZ-Magazin. His debut "Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht!" became one of the most widely read books of recent decades; it was followed by "Das Pubertier", the novels featuring detective Martin Kühn, "Der Markisenmann" and "Munk". He also writes columns, screenplays, radio plays and audiobooks, which he narrates himself. Weiler lives in Munich and Umbria.