Interviewed by
Stephen Fisher
With the podcast Cui Bono: WTF happened to Ken Jebsen? journalist Khesrau Behroz, 35, suddenly became famous. The six episodes about the German conspiracy narrator have so far achieved more than five million streams. The research was showered with prizes and gave the already booming genre an additional boost. Now Behroz releases the second season, Cui Bono: Who’s Afraid of the Dragon Lord? This time the partner of the two production companies Undone and Studio Bummens is RTL plus. The first four episodes —can be heard there now, other platforms are following suit with a new episode per week. Behroz and his team deal with the case of the “Dragon Lord”. Rainer W. ran a YouTube channel under this name, where he talked about everything: music, films, women. The channel became more and more popular, not with fans, but with people who treated W. with malice and hatred. It’s the story of a man who first exposed himself to the public and then allowed himself to be provoked by a mob to fight back – initially on the internet, later also in front of his door. It was so massive that W. was accused of violent crimes and convicted.