Frisches Blut

On a cheerful late summer morning, we meet the judge of Unna and follow him through his daily life built on the pillars of routine and respect. Casually, it is revealed how the gaze of a man accustomed to power categorizes the world and how he presumes to be the standard. Fresh Blood, The Judge of Unna, The Whores of Hagen, and other stories: Gercke takes us into the reality of perpetrators and victims, of fraudsters, marginalized individuals, and outlaws of all kinds with her crime stories. We experience the confidence of the victors and slip into the skin of those who need inconspicuousness as much as air to breathe, whose morality is not that of the privileged. Doris Gercke presents herself as a ruthlessly honest chronicler with a frugal, finely tuned aesthetic and subtle gallows humor. Laconic, full of apparent calm and composure, she unveils scenarios that resist.