Kerim Pamuk - Erleuchtet und verstrahlt

Between endless feedback meetings and self-optimization events, hardly anyone gets any actual work done - yet everyone is clocking overtime. In ERLEUCHTET & VERSTRAHLT, Pamuk optimizes his feedback on God, the world, and every other disaster going.

Caught between doomsday prophets and "Everything's great, keep it up!" dimwits, he tackles the real first article of the German constitution: "The German's reserve is inviolable!" - and the runaway success of children's yoga. He covers Westerners' addiction to crime fiction and Easterners' addiction to the grill. He talks about Wagner's cheerful mini-operas and rinsed-out yoghurt pots shipped off to Malaysia. There are German weapons as a beloved export hit, and Thai massages as the import equivalent.

Are we still having fun in this eternal cycle of growing dumber and dumbing others down? Did we turn out the way we wanted? Kerim Pamuk takes stock - personally, politically, and sometimes in a panic. He delivers a funny and biting evening somewhere between optimistic resignation and pessimistic euphoria.