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A missing construction manager, missing plans and evidence of a murder. Strange things are happening on Europe's largest construction site, the future Cultural Event Mall. Local reporter Grimm and trainee Maja investigate. Crime radio play from Deutschlandfunk Kultur with Bernhard Schütz and Barbara Philipp and others ************************** More crime novels from Deutschlandfunk Kultur: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/... In our newsletter we recommend new radio plays and documentaries every week. Simply subscribe: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/... ABOUT THE PIECE: "This is the future and you can now say you were there." Culture Senator Quickstedt leads a group of journalists through what is currently the largest construction site in Europe. A Cultural Event Mall is to be built here, Germany's answer to the Centre Pompidou de Paris. Private investors from Hong Kong and the public sector are running the project together, but work has not been done for some time. Instead of construction workers, the invited journalists only see security staff everywhere. It soon becomes clear: construction manager Schmidtke has disappeared, along with important documents. In search of an explanation, local reporter Grimm and trainee Maja break into the future temple of culture at night and walk down gigantic escalators into nowhere. Escalators into nowhere By Hans Delbruck Directed by: Judith Lorentz With: Mira Partecke, Gustav-Peter Wöhler, Arnd Klawitter, Barbara Philipp, Bernhard Schütz, Malina Ebert, Martin Engler, Petra Kleinert, Rudolf Krause, Maria Perlick Composition: Lutz Glandien Sound and technology: Martin Eichberg, Philipp Adelmann Production: Deutschlandradio Kultur 2016 THE AUTHOR: Hans Delbruck, born in 1955 in Feuchtwangen. Translator and ghostwriter in Berlin. Deutschlandradio Kultur produced his first radio play "Doctor mendacii" in 2014. Editor's note: This is a pseudonym, nothing more has been published about the author. Image: EyeEm / KEISUKE IKEDA