The soul breaker
The Soulbreaker is a psychological thriller by the writer Sebastian Fitzek from 2008.
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The book begins with an experiment led by Prof. Dr. Haberland. He asks those involved to read a patient file. The patient file is about Caspar, who is in a luxury clinic. Nobody there knows his real name or knows anything about him. He was rescued from the snow by the caretaker of the clinic, Bachmann, and is now being treated there for amnesia . For weeks the press has been reporting about the so-called “soul breaker”: He manages to break his victims psychologically, so that they are trapped in an eternal nightmare. One night, Dr. Bruck comes in as a patient and a terrible night begins. Trapped in the clinic, the patients consider Bruck to be the soul-breaker because, as they believe, he attacked the doctor Sophia. Sophia seems traumatized and can no longer communicate. Residents and employees of the clinic go in search of Bruck and an escape route. During the search, more and more memories come to Caspar that suggest that he knows Bruck. When it turns out that in truth Sophia is the soulbreaker, it is almost too late.
characters
- Prof. Dr. Niclas Haberland alias Caspar: Doctor who carried out the experiment and patient with retrograde amnesia, which the file revolves around
- Prof. Dr. Samuel Raßfeld: Chief Physician and Head of the Teufelsberg Clinic
- Dr. Jonathan Bruck: Psychiatrist and supposedly the soul breaker
- Dr. Sophia Dorn: Caspar's doctor, psychiatrist, ex-wife of Dr. Haberland
- Dirk Bachmann: Caretaker in the Teufelsberg Clinic
- Yasmin Schiller: nurse, nurse in the Teufelsbergklinik
- Sybille Patzwalk: cook at the Teufelsbergklinik
- Driver Tom Schadeck, paramedic / ambulance driver
- Greta Kaminsky: smart old patient
- Linus: musician, patient
- Tarzan: Haberland's dog, called Mr. Ed by patients
- Marie: Haberland's daughter
- Patrick Hayden and Lydia: students, participants in the psychiatric experiment
- Florian Wessel: 3rd semester student, does not take part in the experiment.
- Vanessa Strassmann: first victim of the soulbreaker, 26-year-old drama student
- Katja Adesi: second victim of the soul breaker, elementary school teacher
- Doreen Brandt: third victim of the soulbreaker, lawyer
- Viktor Larenz: renowned psychiatrist, only mentioned at the beginning, main character in the psychological thriller “ The Therapy ” (2006) by Fitzek
Text output
- Sebastian Fitzek: The soul breaker . Knaur Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2008, 368 pages, ISBN 978-3426637920