Axel Hacke's readings are unique, no evening is like the other. There is no one squatting behind a table with a water glass and a lamp and reciting from his new book, as is usual, no, Hacke sits on a chair, talks about life, tells about his work and has with him everything he has written in life, well, a lot of it - and that is a lot: Thousands of columns from the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and a stack of books to go with it, from the Little Educational Advisor to the legendary Wumbaba trilogy on misunderstood song lyrics, from the very funny menus of Oberst von Huhn to his work On Decency in Difficult Times ....
And of course, this time, in great detail, it's also about his very latest book, What We're For. Walter Wemut's handouts for a successful life, the equally furious and relaxed-cheerful monologue of a full-time obituary author about the big questions of our existence. So every evening - if it goes well (and most of the time it does go well) - a new little work of reading art is created, in which the traditional divisions of serious and entertaining mean nothing, because in such an evening everything is there, the cheerful, the philosophical and the uproariously funny. You just never really know beforehand: what?
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