Pony Show (German Premiere)

Reading and moderated discussion
presented by Thalia

At the centre is Juli Zeh's new novel: a married, successful businesswoman is arrested with a pistol and suspected of murdering her twenty-five-year-old junior employee and alleged lover. The case goes to Hamburg's Regional Court and becomes a media sensation - raising a fundamental question: can court proceedings and their public coverage actually bring truth to light? Or do they risk distorting it?

The fact that this legal drama unfolds in Hamburg - a city where a spectacular trial has been publicly tried for over a year - may be coincidence, or perhaps not.

Juli Zeh holds a doctorate in law and serves as a constitutional judge. As an author, she has won numerous literary awards and is known for novels including "Unterleuten" (2016), "Leere Herzen" (2017), and "Über Menschen" (2021). On matters of public concern, she has spoken out on the protection of civil rights against state interference and in open letters about the war in Ukraine.