Our attentive reporter observed a lot at the premiere of the new Michael Bully Herbig film “A Thousand Lines”. Possible similarities to reports by Claas Relotius are purely coincidental and not intended.
It’s 7:57 p.m. and 53 seconds on a Friday evening in September, the wind blustery and rough, minus three degrees Celsius in Hamburg, northern Germany, as thousands of people flock to a palace they call Kino to laugh at a man who is a fraud .
The man, whose name is Lars Bogenius, did not know on the day of his birth, a scrawny being with the skin of a baby, that his story would be filmed and presented to Germany’s intellectual elite on a September evening. Little did he know that his greatest strength would become his greatest weakness. Little did he know that his key to success would also open the lock of his eternal dungeon. He didn’t know any of that.