“Der Tod und andere Glücksfälle” – crime scene cleaner Marcell Engel inspires at the preview
Crime scene cleaner Marcell Engel inspires at the preview
Frankfurt/Bad Soden, October 11, 2021. “Pure goosebumps”, “Incredibly exciting!” and “What an experience!” - these were some of the voices after the preview that crime scene cleaner Marcell Engel offered his fans as a foretaste of his stage program “Death and other strokes of luck” next year. “I was really interested in who the people are who follow me on my social media channels Facebook and Instagram and are always so excited about my stories and my podcast Cause of Death,” says the Frankfurter. To find out, he invited people to take part in a competition and the prize was for the winners to experience him “live” on stage.
“I was so curious to see Marcell live and in color and I was thrilled,” says a young woman who came with her friend. Some of the guests traveled up to 500 kilometers to be in the spacious location in the Access Tower in Niederrad and to listen to Marcell Engel's exciting crime scene stories. “That really touches me and I’m so happy to finally be able to be on stage,” says the crime scene cleaner and author. From the very beginning, Engel involved his audience and the spark immediately spread. “What is happiness?” Marcell Engel wanted to know and was impressed by the answers such as health, family and satisfaction: “All strong statements”. What does this have to do with crime scene cleaning? The father of four explained: "So much about the life of the deceased can be seen from what remains after death. How did he live? Was this a happy person? And much more." He's the one who can read the tracks. He has been doing this job for over 27 years and there is hardly anything he hasn't seen. The audience listened breathlessly as he reported on an extraordinary case in which a man lived in a house with his dead partner for weeks. “Worse still,” says the crime scene cleaner, “he had her wrapped in a bathrobe in the bathroom and always stepped over her when he went to the toilet or bathed.” This is unbelievable for the listeners.
What drives a person to live like that and endure it? Marcell Engel finds motivations and explanations. And he knows how to captivate his audience with additional cases and the backgrounds. Many of his experiences made him think and influenced his outlook on life. “We often don’t realize how important the time factor is and how important it is to value it,” he points out. He would like to raise awareness for this and many other things. And so his stage program offers much more than just the pure narration of exciting or worst crime scenes. Rather, it is the lessons that Engel draws from it for his life and that he wants to share with his audience.
For this reason he also wrote the book “The 7 Principles of the Crime Scene Cleaner – Stories about Murder, Violence, Love and Hope”. The crime scene cleaner has looked into people's deep psychological abysses more than once and always asked himself why people were so stuck in their ways and why it was so difficult for them to leave negative things behind them and to rebuild their lives. “I would like to help gain an open perspective that enables us to live a life free of fear and pain and shows us our very own path to happiness,” he explains. The entertaining and interesting evening proved that he touched a nerve with many people. After the event, he answered many questions from his audience, was available for personal discussions and signed his books. “The great interest and the intensive exchange have confirmed to me that I have taken the right path and I am already looking forward to the stage events that await me and my fan base in the coming year,” concludes the crime scene cleaner.