The 43-year-old bookbinder Kathrin Overesch from Atelier Pappenheim likes series from Austria. On Sundays, she also likes to complain about the “crime scene”. (Frank Thomas Koch)
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Ms. Overesch, what are you watching?
Kathrin Overesch: I’m currently watching “Janus” in the ARD media library, a seven-part Austrian series. A forensic psychologist who is investigating a mysterious series of suicides as a police expert, comes across a seedy and unscrupulous pharmaceutical company. My husband and I are currently on Austrian series.
How come
I’m a fan of Josef Hader and Wolf Haas, I love the “Brenner” trilogy. And I like dialect and dialect. Some time ago we discovered the ORF crime series “Schnell Determined” with the great Ursula Strauss. And so it has continued. From “Braunschlag” we came to “Pregau” via “Altes Geld”. All Austrian series are united by the black humor, morbid and the variety of words. We also chose one of our last vacations after that and went to Austria.
Does this happen to you often? Has there ever been an Italian phase or something?
We actually went to Belgium once after seeing “see Bruges and die”!
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Do you prefer to watch films or series?
I am a passionate moviegoer. Last I got the Beatles movie „Yesterday“ seen. But some stories just take more time for the characters to develop. So I like short series that are finished and don’t have a third or fourth season. At some point a story is simply told. I like unexpected stories that cannot be classified immediately, for example an interplay of fantasy and real life. But I also like crime novels and on Sundays I am a passionate “crime scene” complainer.
Is there an all-time favorite film?
It used to be Jim Jarmusch’s “Night on Earth”. But somehow that doesn’t exist anymore today. You are often disappointed when you watch your favorite films again after a few years.
Given what you do for a living, you probably spend more time reading books than you do with films, right?
I actually only read in bed in the evenings – depending on how strenuous the day was, between five and twenty minutes. But I have to read, otherwise I can’t sleep.
What was the last thing you read?
“Blackbird” by Matthias Brandt, “The Burning Lake” by John von Düffel and I’m currently reading “The Apple Tree” by Christian Berkel. It is about researching the author’s family history. Actually, I’m not a biography reader, but this is a story that is very exciting and makes you want to grapple with German history again.
Paper or e-reader?
You have to leaf through books, lose your bookmark and keep asking yourself: Where have I been again ?! Otherwise something is missing.
Is there a book that you would like to read again for the first time?
“The greater miracle” by Thomas Glavinic. An impressive book whose protagonist can, for example, learn a language overnight by listening to it once. I would also like to have this ability.
Is there a book that has shaped you?
I started reading with “Kisses, Kisses”, the short stories by Roald Dahl. That was my gateway drug, so to speak.
And what do you like to hear?
At work I listen to the radio and I like to listen to podcasts. The crime podcast “Kein Mucks!” From Bremen 2 or the radio crime scenes. I heard the Volker Kutscher novels as audio books. I’ve already got his new thriller, “Olympia”, and I’m really excited now.
And music?
I have a chaotic taste in music. From Nick Cave to Tom Waits to Sophie hungry and Gisbert zu Knyphausen. I like to hear just as much Cat Power. But also Jan Delay and Udo Lindenberg. But classical music also makes me happy.
Interview conducted by Alexandra Knief.
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