Jürgen von der Lippe Reads - Sextextsextett - Comedy Reading

Reading announcement for "Sextextsextett"

Jürgen von der Lippe, born in 1948, has been a successful master of humorous precision and a moderator on stages and television for decades. He lives in Berlin and is, among other things, 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," "Noodles in the Wind," and "Sex Is Like Flour" spent weeks on bestseller lists.

It's hard not to rave about my new book. Even for me. The title itself, Sextextsextett, is both a tongue-twister and an ice-breaker in conversation. What does it promise? Everything you want and more: plenty of zeitgeist that sometimes comes across as timeless, sometimes as 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'? 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 could one give to one's own? Schopenhauer. The quote comes from him; the rest is up to you.

How many meanings can the sentence "I have a finger in my butt" have? Several. Many of the texts reflect my xenologophilia, my love of foreign words, which 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 in the morning.

One of the most mysterious and simultaneously universally applicable sentences in the book, if not in literature, is: I am now awake. I don't want to say anything more at the moment.