Tannöd

"The devil took him!" - so the villagers say when the entire Danner family is found dead on the remote farm of Tannöd. Six people were murdered in a single night. There are no clues, the motives remain unknown.

Was it divine punishment, a calculated robbery-murder, or belated revenge for past wrongs? Tannöd must have been a place of horror even before the murders: the old Danner ruled his family like a patriarch - brutally, with violence and incest. An open secret throughout the village, yet only this cold-blooded murder forces people to speak. Gradually, the participants reveal what happened through fragmented accounts, flashbacks, and inner monologues.

An unsolved murder case from 1922 inspired Andrea Maria Schenkel's "Tannöd". She relocated the events to the post-war years, creating both a crime novel and a precise study of an era when certain things were left unspoken.