Pony Show

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Juli Zeh - Pony Show
Novel, approx. 480 pages
Published on October 14, 2026
The gripping new novel by SPIEGEL bestselling author and constitutional judge Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh at Luchterhand and btb: 6 million books sold A prominent publisher under suspicion of murder. A spectacular jury trial. And the question: How negotiable is the truth?
She is over fifty, married, and head of a large literary publishing house. He is in his late twenties and a rising talent in her company. Betty and Fero are a perfect team – and a volatile connection on very thin ice. When Fero disappears one day and Betty is caught at the Hungarian border with a pistol and counterfeit money, the case seems clear:
Betty is Fero's murderer. The “Loverboy case” lands before the Hamburg Regional Court, divides the public, and electrifies the media. Does Betty's case prove that women can be just as toxic as men? Or is she the prominent victim of a society that still prosecutes freedom-loving women? For Betty's defender Mark, it is the most important assignment of his career. But he quickly realizes that he cannot rely on anything – not even himself. Who is pursuing which agenda here? Who is manipulating whom? And what do we believe just because we want to believe it? And above all: What did Betty really do? Juli Zeh, born in Bonn in 1974, studied law in Passau and Leipzig, and earned a doctorate in European and international law. Her debut novel “Adler und Engel” (2001) became a worldwide success; her novels have now been translated into 35 languages. Juli Zeh has received numerous awards for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize (2013) and the Heinrich Böll Prize (2019). In 2018, she received the Federal Cross of Merit and was appointed judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Brandenburg. Most recently published at Luchterhand together with Simon Urban is the novel “Zwischen Welten”.

Highlights

• Reading by Juli Zeh
• Published on October 14, 2026
• Gripping plot about suspicion of murder and truth

General Information

The reading of Juli Zeh's new novel "Pony Show" takes place at the Berlin Philharmonie. The novel deals with a spectacular jury trial and the complex questions of truth and manipulation in society.

Location

Herbert-von-Karajan-strasse 1, 10785 Berlin, Germany

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