Jürgen von der Lippe Reads - Sextextsextett - Comedy Reading

Reading announcement for "Sextextsextett"

Jürgen von der Lippe, born in 1948, has spent decades as a celebrated master of humorous precision and performer on stages and television. He lives in Berlin and is the recipient of the Bambi Award, the Grimme Prize, and the Golden Camera. His recent books "Beim Dehnen singe ich Balladen", "Der König der Tiere", "Nudel im Wind", and "Sex ist wie Mehl" have spent weeks on bestseller lists.

It's hard not to gush about my new book. Even for me. The title alone, Sextextsextett, is a tongue-twister and ice-breaker in conversation all at once. What does it promise? Everything you want and more: plenty of zeitgeist that sometimes sounds timeless, sometimes senseless, answers to pressing questions like: what does language do about hair loss, how do you mindfully break up with a partner, what are the differences between Goethe's erotic poetry and Hermann Löns's? What does the feminist movement "Equal Breasts for All" want? Who said: The genitals are the true focal point of the will - and what name would you give yours? Schopenhauer. That quote is from him; the rest is up to you.

How many meanings can the sentence "I have a finger in my ass" have? Several. Many texts reflect my xenolophilia, my love of foreign words that I enjoy explaining through jokes, such as malapropism - the confusion of similarly sounding foreign words. "Yesterday afternoon I was deflowered. You mean confirmed! No, that was this morning."

One of the most mysterious and at the same time universally applicable sentences in the book, if not in literature, is: I am now awake. I don't want to say more about it right now.