Berlinoir

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Berlinoir is the title of a series of comics by the illustrator Reinhard Kleist and the author Tobias O. Meißner . So far, the albums “Scherbenmund” (2003), “Mord!” (2004) and “Scar town” (2008) have been released in both German and French. The series tells an exciting political thriller from a thoroughly corrupt Berlin . But this city lies in a parallel universe in which human history was different: Berlin is ruled by fascist vampires . Berlinoir is a city that has existed since the vibrant and deadly history of the twentieth century. Berlinoir is Berlin in the delirium of the times and cannot be historically located.

The series is a political parable and alludes to films like "M" , Metropolis , Dr. Mabuse and girl in uniform .

The German edition is published by Edition 52 , the French edition by Edition Akileos .

Volumes

Broken mouth

The city of Berlinoir is ruled by a powerful vampire clan, under the reign of Nicolas Szerbenmund , who forcibly drain the life of the living en masse in “blood factories” reminiscent of concentration camps. The vampiric rulers laboriously try through permanent propaganda to instill the "benevolent" character of their truly totalitarian regime for the mass of the "living" population and to stabilize their rule by voluntarily converting the living to vampirism as many as possible. Resistance seems pointless, but there is an underground organization that stirs up the population with daring attacks on high-ranking vampires .

"Murder!"

In the second part of the series, Berlinoir is shaken by an eerie series of murders. The rebels try to reorganize themselves under the leadership of the young Veta and the new, ruling mayor or “Burdenmeister” Mardocles tries desperately to get the city under his control.

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