Arno Strobel casts a spell over the "Bocholt liest" audience
City library pleased with full house at fourth "Bocholt reads" event // Around 100 visitors listened to bestselling author
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Arno Strobel presented his new thriller "Mörderfinder - Die Macht des Täters" to a full room in the media center of the city library. The author delighted his audience with his charismatic presentation and an open Q&A session, during which he talked extensively with his audience.
"Arno Strobel - finally he is with us!", Klaudia Kroesen, head of fiction, was pleased at the beginning of the event. It had taken about two years, due to corona, until the bestselling author could appear at "Bocholt reads". But the wait was worth it, Kroesen summed up at the end of the event. The sold-out reading was a complete success.
Relaxed atmosphere and open dialog
At the beginning, the author made it clear: He would not read from his book for more than 20 minutes. "I have made the experience that the attention span decreases after this time," the author told. Instead, he said, he had thought of something different for the evening. After a brief narrative on the genesis of the Max Bischoff series and anecdotes about the writer's profession, he launched into his new thriller - which couldn't have been more gripping. Arno Strobel then left his audience curiously elated for the break.
After the break, the author opened with an unpublished humorous short story on the subject of Corona, which the author wrote during the first Lockdown. The pandemic and its aftermath did not leave the author unscathed, and the short story helped him resolve his writer's block, he said. Afterwards, the author entered into an open dialogue with his audience. For example, he answered the question of how he approaches his stories. "I write about four months on a book. The beginning and end are then usually quickly clear. But the way my characters get there evolves during the writing process. So it can sometimes be that I myself am surprised by the twists and turns," says the author.
Title of the next thriller has been decided
The author gets the inspiration for his books from his environment. "It's amazing what you notice when you actively observe your surroundings. That gives you the best ideas," says Strobel. On average, he publishes two books a year. The author is currently writing the third and final part of the Max Bischoff series. But his fans can already look forward to his next single work, the title of which he was allowed to announce publicly for the first time at the reading. His next novel, entitled "Fake," is expected to be published in the fall of 2022.
Asked how he came to write, the humorous author replied "like a virgin to a child." In his late 30s, he said, he came to writing relatively late. At the beginning of his career, the trained IT specialist first published short stories on the Internet before landing a bestseller with his first thriller.
The reading was a cooperative event of the Bocholt City Library, the Adult Education Center Bocholt-Rhede-Isselburg and the Mayersche bookstore.