“The Expert presents itself as a thriller, at least atfirst glance, there is a body, a suspect, an investigator, clues, everything that could correspond tothe codes of the genre. However, Jennifer Daniel takesadvantage of this framework to tell us about Germanyin the 70s, the class differences that can exist at work,but above all the memories of the Second World Warwhich still remain very present in this complex periodof reconstruction.”
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“A brillant comic book on 1970s Germany.”
In the summer of 1977, a car accident occurs on a country road shortly after Bonn, in which not only sheet metal, but worlds collide.
The young RAF sympathiser Miriam Becker dies in her car and there is no trace of the person who caused the accident. Mr. Martin, a minor employee of the forensic medicine department, has very personal reasons to take a closer look at this case.
With Das Gutachten (The Expert’s Report), Jennifer Daniel shows how fresh a graphic novel about post-war German society can be.
Narratively and graphically impressive, she paints the picture of a man who tries to drown his memories in alcohol. Until a young woman dies. His investigation puts Mr Martin on the trail of the person responsible, but also mercilessly exposes his own, painstakingly repressed responsibility.
