Jürgen von der Lippe Reads - Sextextsextett - Comedy Reading

Jürgen von der Lippe, born in 1948, has been a fixture on stages and television for decades as a humorist and moderator. He lives in Berlin and is a recipient of the Bambi Award, the Grimme Prize, and the Golden Camera. His recent books - "I Sing Ballads While Stretching", "The King of Animals", "Noodle in the Wind", and "Sex Is Like Flour" - spent weeks on bestseller lists.

In this new reading, he performs excerpts from "Sextextsextett" - a book that, according to the author himself, can hardly fail to inspire enthusiasm. The title is both a tongue-twister and an ice-breaker. Thematically, it explores the spirit of the times and timelessness, tackling pressing questions: What does language do about hair loss? How do you mindfully break up with your partner? What are the differences between Goethe's erotic poetry and Hermann Löns'? What does the feminist movement "Equal Breasts for All" want to achieve?

Who said that genitals are the true focal point of the will? Schopenhauer - the quote comes from him; everything else is your business. Several texts explore von der Lippe's xenolinguophilia, his love of foreign words, which he explains through jokes - such as malapropism, the confusion of similarly sounding words: "Yesterday afternoon I was deflowered." - "You mean confirmed!" - "No, that was in the morning."

One of the most mysterious and simultaneously universally applicable sentences in the book, if not in literature itself, reads simply: I am now awake.