Tankred Lerch - Cologne Comedy Festival

In the organizer's words:

When Tankred Lerch takes to the stage and reads short stories, it's a "Reading 2.0" and is more like a stand-up, even though 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 rather convinces 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 never happened, 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. This year he will be reading short stories and excerpts from his latest novel "Hope - oder wenn Papa Mama wird".