2023-11-08 15:51:32
8. November 2023, 09:05
“Berta, the egg is hard.” One of Loriot’s most famous sketches begins with these fateful words. Hermann and Berta, an average German couple, are sitting at breakfast and begin to argue more and more uninhibitedly over a soft egg that has been boiled too hard.
Loriot’s sketch has long been used in schools and university seminars as an example of failed acts of communication. With Loriot it is like so often in real life: While the man remains stuck to analytical thinking with a relatively lack of empathy, Ms. Berta acts more and more on an emotional level, without explicitly formulating her feelings. The result: Neither of them feels understood.
The relationship between men and women is a recurring and varied motif in Loriot’s humorous art. No wonder that the master satirist eventually came to a resigned conclusion: “Men and women,” says Loriot, “simply don’t fit together.”
Service
“The Great Loriot Book – Collected Stories in Words and Pictures”, Diogenes-Verlag, Zurich
Loriot: “People, Animals, Disasters”, Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart
Stefan Lukschy: “The lucky one doesn’t hit dogs”, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin
Anna Bers and Claudia Hillebrandt: “Loriot”, edition text + kritik”, Munich
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