Leseshow - eine mögliche Geschichte der deutschen Popmusik - Cologne Comedy Festival

In the organizer's words:

About the book: In their latest prank, Luksan Wunder make full use of two of their core competencies: Music and debauched imagination. Not only do they hilariously parody the habitus of essayistic pop criticism, but they may have invented considerable parts of this possible pop history and possibly even sung and produced the majority of the songs and music videos linked in the book themselves. Their alternative history of German pop music is a detailed and lovingly crafted nonsense book peppered with clever references, strange causalities, uproariously funny flat jokes and bursting with ludicrous artist types and wild theories - a pleasure for music nerds and all friends of offbeat comedy and satire.

About the live reading show: The live reading show of the possible history of pop music is a multimedia reading with music, images and videos. Using different genres, we are taken on a journey through the alternative universe of Luksan Wunder's pop history. We see possibly real, possibly fictitious band photos, covers, listen to interviews with contemporary witnesses and watch sensational performances by ageing music stars (who, strangely enough, all look somewhat similar).

About Luksan Wunder: Luksan Wunder from Berlin and Freiburg have created a weird, ramified and extremely funny nerd universe that spreads its very own humor across all media. Their video series "Correct Pronunciation", "Literal Videos", "Bad Lip Reading Videos", "Netzkolleg" and the "Most Unsatisfying Video Ever Made" have a firm place in net-savvy nerd culture and the crew's videos have received over half a billion clicks worldwide. Their live show has won numerous awards (including the German Kleinkunstpreis 2023, Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg 2020).