City thriller
The Citythriller is a live-action-role-playing-game (LARP) .
Gameplay
In the city thriller, several teams of investigators, consisting of four to six people, are formed and equipped with the equipment necessary to solve the case. The investigative teams start in the respective, pre-determined “game city” in which a fictional murder is re-enacted. The teams of investigators must secure traces and question witnesses and find clues to the next location and possibly the next witnesses through combinatorics and team play. The witnesses are professional actors who, upon request, give the investigators important details about alibis, the course of events and possible suspects. The actors can also be potential perpetrators and mislead the investigators on the wrong track. If an investigative team finally resolves the murder case, the murderer (s) will be arrested by the investigators. The scenarios and plots for perpetrators, witnesses and events vary, so that investigators can take part in several city thrillers without knowing the outcome in advance. There are usually five different murders that investigative teams in different cities can solve.
Emergence
The city thriller was first held on March 18, 2006 in Cologne . The idea for this event came from Rosemarie and Andreas Wagner, who continuously developed the concept. In the years that followed, Citythriller was also staged regularly in Bonn and Düsseldorf (since 2007), Munich (since 2010) and Hamburg (since 2011). Margarita Horbach has been responsible for the direction and management of Citythriller since 2017 . Margarita Horbach has been an actress and game director at Citythriller since 2007. Events at the new Stuttgart location were also announced for the first time in 2019 .