Jürgen von der Lippe Reads - Sextextsextett - Comedy Reading

Jürgen von der Lippe, born in 1948, has been active for decades as a humorist and television host on stage and screen. 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", "Pasta in the Wind", and "Sex Is Like Flour" - spent weeks on bestseller lists.

His new book is titled "Sextextsextett" - a tongue-twister and icebreaker rolled into one. It explores questions such as: 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 to achieve? And how many meanings can the sentence "I have a finger in my ass" have?

Several texts are devoted to von der Lippe's xenolinguophilia - his love of foreign words, which he explains 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 itself, simply reads: "I am awake now."