Loriots heile Welt

In the organizer's words:

"My parents decided to send me to school. By learning old languages, attending a course for armored troops, studying for three years at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg and passing an exam that allowed me to drive a car, I prepared myself conscientiously for a career as a cartoonist. I can swim." - Vicco von Bülow

Bernhard-Viktor (Vicco) von Bülow - better known as Loriot - is the grand seigneur of German humor. No one before or after him has been able to trip up the bourgeois middle class with consummately polite audacity, so that one might stumble with dignity. Week after week, he created new picture stories, which he initially published in magazines. His publishers barely kept up with the book publications, so that the numerous books to date only show a cross-section.

Loriot wrote about himself: "I am not a dog, nor have I ever resembled one. Rather, I am a Berliner, born in Brandenburg on November 12, 1923. My parents decided to send me to school. By learning old languages, attending a course for armored troops, as well as studying for three years at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg and passing an exam that allowed me to drive a car, I conscientiously prepared myself for the career of a caricaturist. I can swim. I also gave my wife a dog and a child." (1954)

Well-known classics such as "The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman", "Christmas at Hoppenstedt's", "The Announcer" and "The Egg" await you at the Harburg Theater. But there will also be less well-known pieces such as "Streichhölzer & Rouladenfaden" - Rouladenfaden is a wonderful word that could be forgotten if it weren't for Loriot!

Directed by Hans Schernthaner
Stage Sonja Zander
Costumes Susann Günther
With Hannelore Droege, Dirk Hoener, Frank Roder, Marion Gretchen Schmitz and Herbert Schöberl/Georg Münzel

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