Loriot: Scenes from a Marriage

“Men and women just don’t go together…” – yet they have to get along with each other every day. When the breakfast egg is overcooked in the morning and opinions about how to spend the evening diverge at night, things get critical. This is exactly what Loriot captured in his legendary *Scenes from a Marriage*, published in 1983. His sensitivity to interpersonal relationships and the comedy of everyday communication reveal Loriot as a keen observer of all-too-human comedies.

As a tribute to the master of humor, two stage and film greats, Senta Berger and Friedrich von Thun, come together to breathe life and laughter into these scenes. Together and against each other, they grapple with the stumbling blocks that everyday life throws in their way, and of course with the insurmountable pitfalls of a romantic relationship. Because as Loriot once said, “A happy marriage is one in which she is a little blind and he is a little deaf.”

Accordion: Maria Reiter