Sven Kemmler - Thick hams - A declaration of love

Sven Kemmler has bought himself a book. A really big book. Without thinking about the consequences. Because now he feels he has to read it. Although it would also look good on the shelf if it wasn't read. But seriously, how long can a read like that take? It makes Sven think of Thomas Mann and he knows that it can drag on forever!
But reading used to be a pleasure for him, not a burden. Oh, where has the magic gone? The voice of his great-grandmother reading The Robber Hotzenplotz. Waiting for the book bus. The first Asterix of my own. The school curriculum's attempt to crush the joy of reading under the leaden heel of "compulsory reading", followed by the realization: never in their lives will people understand as much about literature as their German teachers. But then the liberation, the day when you realize: "Hooray, I can read what I want! And if it suits me, even as a video, hah!"
From then on, you ask yourself the important questions. What do I want to read, what should I read, what can I read? Is a book still literature if an orc appears in it? Is it even a book if it's not a crime novel from Denmark or Sweden? And why is the Koran regularly burned in times of climate change, when the calorific value of Bibles would be much greater due to their thickness? And by the way, how should we deal with authors who are controversial from today's perspective, such as Immanuel Kant or Jamie Oliver?
In any case, the reader learns. Man reads as long as he strives. And this cabaret program strives to carve lances out of the sticks that so many have up their butts when it comes to books, in order to break them for reading. Cheerful, profound, sometimes downright stupid and - within the limits of cabaret - also erotic. The whole thing, of course, with a well-oiled reader's voice. And a lot of heart.

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Photo: Franziska Schrödinger