Jürgen von der Lippe

Reading Announcement "Sextextsextett" Jürgen von der Lippe, born in 1948, has been a successful master of humorous finesse and a moderator on stages and television for decades. He lives in Berlin and is, among other accolades, a recipient of the Bambi, the Grimme Prize, and the Golden Camera. His recent books "Beim Dehnen singe ich Balladen," "Der König der Tiere," "Nudel im Wind," and "Sex ist wie Mehl" have been on the bestseller list for weeks. As with all of his previous 15 books, fans will have their fun, while non-fans will overlook the numerous linguistic nuances, interesting facts, and witty remarks, whether intentionally or due to cognitive weakness, and will be outraged by the genital-referential passages. Goethe already noted: Everyone hears only what they understand. Otherwise, I align myself with Schopenhauer: Lust in the act of copulation. That is it. That is the true essence and core of all things, the goal and purpose of all existence. This is the universal human condition: wanting, temporary satisfaction, boredom, further wanting. The genitals are the actual focal point of the will. Three Schopenhauer quotes that I throw at any critic who accuses me of preferring genital-referential topics. Just like now: It is hard not to rave about my new book. Even for me. Just the title "Sextextsextett," a tongue-twister and icebreaker in conversation at the same time. What does it promise? Everything you want and more: a lot of zeitgeist, sometimes timeless, sometimes mindless, answers to pressing questions like: What does language achieve in the case of hair loss, how does one mindfully end a relationship with a partner, what are the differences between Goethe's erotic poetry and that of Hermann Löns? What does the feminist movement "Equal Breasts for All" want? Who said: The genitals are the actual focal point of the will, and what name could one give to one's own? Schopenhauer. So that is where the quote comes from; the other is your business. How many meanings can the sentence "I have a finger in my ass" have? Several texts reflect my xenologophilia, my love for foreign words, which I like to explain with jokes, such as the 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. I don’t want to say more at the moment. And there are poems that emerged as bycatch during water aerobics with my wife on vacation. Deathly pale and corpse-like The eyes staring, the noodle soft To see one's own partner like this After love, is not nice.