Oliver Pötzsch
Oliver Pötzsch, born in 1970, has worked for years as a scriptwriter for Bavarian television. He himself is a descendant of one of Bavaria's leading dynasties of executioners.He lives in Munich with his family. Photo © Dominik Parzinger.
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Oliver Pötzsch, born in 1970, has worked for years as a scriptwriter for Bavarian television. He himself is a descendant of one of Bavaria's leading dynasties of executioners.He lives in Munich with his family. Photo © Dominik Parzinger.
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Set in 1659, in the small town of Schongau in Bavaria, Germany, more than one child has been murdered and they bear an unusual mark on their shoulders. The town’s hangman, Jakob Kuisl, is ordered to torture a confession out of the town midwife, Marta, who is suspected of witchcraft. Jakob doesn’t be...
Series: Hangman’s Daughter #1 It’s 17th century Germany, and a small boy is found in the river, close to death. A midwife is blamed (mob mentality, 17th century) and locked up. The hangman, Jakob Kuisl is asked to torture a confession out of her for the good of the town. He doesn’t believe she’s ...
I started reading The Werewolf of Bamberg and was quickly reminded that the translations of these books suck. I had to ask myself, why do like these stories so much? By the end I'd figured it out. I keep coming back to the Hangman's Daughter stories because I love that I can never guess the endi...
What I liked about "The Hangman's Daughter" was how directly it dealt with the brutality of life in seventeenth century Bavaria. The work of the town hangman: torturing, breaking bones, and executing people with sword or rope or fire, is described with a graphic clarity that is not for the faint hea...
I'm still trying to figure out why this book is titled The Hangman's Daughter. Was this the original title, or did AmazonCrossing decide to follow the Daughter-in-the-title fad when producing the English translation? This is what I kept asking myself while reading as it became more and more apparen...
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