Dat Wasser vun Kölle es jot

An activist’s body washes up on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne. Detective Clara and her colleague Hans launch a murder investigation. They find themselves probing into a web of pollution, online threats and encrypted data of a local chemical company. Water has an emotional effect, especially for souls who live in Cologne. No other German waterway features in so many songs as much as the Rhine. Even the title of the play comes from a famous songline. But how clean is the Rhine? Laced with songs of the Rhine, Calle Fuhr’s DAT WASSER VUN KÖLLE ES JOT tells a Cologne detective story that reveals disquieting research results about the Rhine’s water quality: explosive facts from the investigative newsroom CORRECTIV are given a stage