New Film Project Based on Berlin Heat by Johannes Groschupf

A Cologne-based production company has acquired the films rights to Johannes Groschupf’s thriller Berlin Heat. Winner of the 2021 German Crime Fiction Prize, Berlin Heat tells the story of Tom Lohoff, a real estate agent with a gambling problem who is constantly getting himself into sticky situations, including inadvertantly gettiing tangled up in the staged kidnapping of a neo-Nazi politician. Groschupf tells the story of a lovable lady’s man and loser who over the course of the turbulent events of the plot goes from an antihero to a veritable hero – culminating in a showdown at the site of the Führerbunker, in a desperate effort to prevent a terror attack.