Bad Carma, by David Safier

(Mieses Karma)

Production: NDR 2008
Adaptation for radio: Susanne Hoffmann
Speakers: Cathlen Gawlich, Dieter Pfaff, et al.
Directed by: Beatrix Ackers
Music: Andreas Bick
First broadcast: 1.5.2008
Nominated for the German Audio Book Price 2009 in the catagory "special audio book / sound design"

Presenter Kim Lange wanted nothing more than the German Television Prize. Now she holds it triumphantly in her hands. Sadly, she is crushed the very same evening by the wreckage of a Russian space station. In the afterworld, Kim finds out just how much bad karma she amassed during her life – for which she is made to pay forthwith, being reborn as an ant. What she needs now is good karma to help her climb back up the ladder of reincarnation!

David Safier made his name with scripts for TV hits like “Berlin, Berlin” and “Mein Leben und Ich” (My Life and Me). Among others, he has received the Grimme Prize, the German Television Prize, and an Emmy. “Mieses Karma” is his first novel and was on the bestseller lists for weeks.