In the organizer's words:
The graphic novel "Aale und Gespenster" by Marius Schmidt will be published by avant-verlag on April 2025.
The comic takes up the disaster of the "Cap Arcona". The ship was sunk by the Royal Air Force off the Bay of Lübeck in 1945 in the final weeks of the war. Thousands of concentration camp prisoners lost their lives. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the disaster.
The graphic novel recounts the experiences of two friends in 1947, who earn their money by illegally cannibalizing the wreck of the "Cap Arcona", which lies in the Bay of Lübeck. In another storyline, set in 1987, a mother and her daughter accidentally come across a skeleton in the ground. The police calmly and routinely attribute the discovery to a shipwreck over 40 years earlier. But this is not quite the truth.
Marius Schmidt has created a crime story with a historical background that reaches right up to the present day.
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