Visiting comic book scenery – The Maier-Files authors in Teutoburgerwald

At this moment we’re reviewing the first version of Book 1 of the series (the free prequel being Book 0): Pat is quite busy drawing and redrawing, Dorn is especially involved with the dialogues and necessary adjustments. A lot of time was and is invested in documenting ourselves on the historical facts (contrary to the prequel, which plays somewhere in the 2000s, Book 1 is set during WW II), but we do also need accurate scenery for the action.

So, when Rolf Dietrich is “invited” to a certain castle, we visit this castle, make some photographs, and try to reconstruct how it was in the past based on these pictures and additional documents. When Rolf’s men have a beer in an ancient pub, we try sitting down at their table and feel the atmosphere or what’s left of it. When a treasure is hidden in a certain place, we drive towards that place and try digging it up … (Just kidding, but we do document us on that place too. No, really, no treasure there.)

During our previous trip to the Teutoburgerwald, where we visited the Hermannsdenkmal, Paderborn, the Externsteine, and Wewelsburg, in order to do what we wrote about above, we were followed by our number one fan Arte Misia. She made some pictures of us … making pictures, looking at stuff, or just acting plain crazy. A little selection:

Walking in the Teutoburgerwald

 

Dorn making things easier

 

Flying saucers: they do exist !

 

Is it a bird ? Is it a plane ? It certainly are not the Externsteine !

 

Being totally zen in some sarcophage at the Externsteine …

 

Pat not seeing what we see: a nice little rune on a rock.

 

Pat demonstrating how aslant these Externsteine really are

 

Documenting ourselves on Rolf’s hotel (see free prequel)

 

Hmm, did you see those strange markings here ? Could it be a secret message ?

 

Just around the corner of Gudrun’s residence

 

Well … just some kind of hippie Hermann with a hard rock guy

 

Our backs moving towards Hermann’s back

 

Pat: “Aw, something came falling from the sky !” Dorn: “He threw it !”

 

Wewelsburg: a little village with a not so little castle and a rather interesting history

 

Walking around the “burg” acting weird …

 

Ottens hof, a pub visited by a number of characters in Book 1 and … by us. Chinese guy who owns it now is still serving a very nice German meal (and wok)