NIMM PLATZ - KÖLNER LITERATURSOMMER MIT TANKRED LERCH

In the organizer's words:

Tankred Lerch reads from It must look like an accident

When Tankred Lerch takes to the stage and reads short stories, it's a "Reading 2.0" and is more like a stand-up, although he only reads aloud. He prefers to stand up rather than sit down because he believes that his belly won't be as visible.

Lerch doesn't work his way through gag after gag on a topic, but instead impresses with touching comedy and the humorous to satirical observation of the grotesque in our everyday lives. The focus is always on his unresolved personal relationship to himself, his adopted home of Cologne, his youth in a Schleswig Holstein town near Hamburg, the Tiffaniehase (the love of his life) and the most beautiful child in the world. With a precise timing for comedy, the author, whose performance undoubtedly reveals his work with comedians such as Kurt Krömer and Olaf Schubert, deals with his existence, which is characterized by self-doubt and irony, and his arrangement with this, our brave new world. Sometimes it's mundane things like unsuccessful, home-made marzipan, which he sends to the Niederegger company in lumps as a tribute to his mother (who enriched herself for years through unjustified complaints), his meticulous preparations for an argument with an employee of the post office bank service hotline that doesn't actually take place, the confrontation with a mentally abusive neighbor, the German army, his father's perm or a joint with Jean Claude van Damme and a guinea pig on his parents' balcony.

At "Nimm Platz", he will read short stories from the book "Es muss wie ein Unfall aussehen" (It must look like an accident)

The Cologne literary summer is curated by the Cologne literary scene

NIMM PLATZ am Neumarkt is a joint project of Cologne's cultural administration and the independent cultural scene, with contributions from the University of Music and Dance (HfMT) and the Academy of Media Arts (KHM).