After a serious car crash, Berlin loser Nico Pacinsky becomes increasingly delusional, believing that he is really Klaus Kinski. When he is contacted by a director pretending to be Werner Herzog, who wants to film the life of his best fiend with Nico in the leading role, an inter-dimensional journey through German culture begins. Nico must find his way in a new world where he is pursued by demon hunters and Udo Kier is the first Rainbow Pope. "They will claim that I was dead..." is a bitterly satirical novel. A critique of time and culture that takes no prisoners. An atomic all-out attack on all sensitivities with the megalomaniacal goal to set an infernal final point behind our contemporary culture.