Jürgen von der Lippe - 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 stage and television. 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 "When Stretching, I Sing Ballads," "The King of Animals," "Noodle 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 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 feels timeless, sometimes senseless, answers to pressing questions like: 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? Who said: The genitals are the true focal point of will, and what name might one give to one's own? Schopenhauer. So that quote comes 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, which I like to explain 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.
For now, I don't want to say more.