ALWAYS SOMETHING, NEVER HAPPENS

  • The new stories from Spiegel bestselling author Dietmar Wischmeyer – as funny as they are wicked.

The strangest country we live in is called "everyday life." What we perceive as normality is a mix of madness and jam sandwiches that always fall butter side down. Dietmar Wischmeyer takes us into a world of everyday absurdities. We accompany him to the green waste disposal site, watch an East Elbe truck driver losing his mind while delivering a washing machine, and suffer with him at the bratwurst stand. We learn why misery seems to start beyond Dortmund and why every pedestrian zone between Flensburg and Freiburg is just a variation of Asian takeout and mattress discounters.

Als Mutti unser Kanzler war provided a theoretical assessment of the Merkelocene. This book offers an up-close encounter with the aftermath of our two-legged mishaps. It reveals aspects of ourselves, as Germans, that are not always pretty, but are as funny as they are wicked. Wischmeyer holds up a distorting mirror, and just like an accident, you can't help but look.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 12.09.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0196-7
  • 240 Pages
  • Author: Dietmar Wischmeyer

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Dietmar Wischmeyer

Dietmar Wischmeyer , radiomaker, author and columnist, is one of the most successful comedians in Germany. He tours every year through Germany with his comedy shows. And he regularly appears on television in the "heute show". His most recent novel was Als Mutti unser Kanzler war  and Immer is was, nie is nix .