Heinz Strunk – Zauberberg 2

Jonas Heidbrink, a man of success. He sold his start-up before he was even thirty; he has never had to work a day in his life. But Heidbrink is not doing well, not at all. And so, one cold January day, he heads east to the Mecklenburg wasteland, where a castle-like building rises up in the middle of the marshes: the sanatorium. It's all very posh, but it's still a clinic for people with one or two ailments. Heidbrink is quickly wrapped up in the corset of ward rounds and treatments and has to decide whether he wants to follow his misanthropy in the dining room or make friends. The people here - doctors, nurses, patients - are strangers to him, but they soon become his world.

But the clinic doesn't seem to be running smoothly. An adjoining building is closed, the staff is reduced, rumor has it that convenience food is coming out of the microwave in the kitchen. And so one month follows another - until a mysterious accident occurs in the swamps.