#loriot confession

[cptnchaos0]

[toboldlynerd]

11, 23, 27 for the non-usa ask again :D

11. favorite native writer/poet?

I must confess that I’ve read primarily fanfiction since highschool ended (i had to read loads of “classics” for my Abitur/highschool exam in German so that discouraged me kinda strongly to read on my own afterward). As a child, I adored Micheal Ende and Cornelia Funke - now I have heard good things about the Känguruchronicen and Walter Moers? I may read that stuff at some point??

My favorite german poet is hands down, Rainer Maria Rilke. His works are part of the romantic movement (i believe) and what can I say? I’m a hopeless romantic at heard lmao There is also a production of his poems where celebrities read Rilke's poems out loud and set to music - it is called Rilke Projekt by Schönherz & Fleer which I absolutely adore and like to listen to when I need my creative juices to flow while sowing/drawing. (Die Liebende spoken by Hannelore Elsner is one of my all-time faves like wtf?! the yearning???)

(Also also, the first time I heard of him we were in third grade (+/- 8yo) and had to copy a Christmas poem by him from the blackboard onto cards “as a present for the family” like you do... Storytime: There exists a law in Germany that every baby has to be given one name that fits their gender-proclaimed-at-birth to make sure psychological damage is minimized if the parents are on a trip or something so the child at least has one (1) fairly normal name. Gender-neutral names do exist but traditionally Maria is not one of them. Cue to us - 39 confused children - trying and failing to flesh out what gender this long-gone poet might have. After our teacher jokingly had asked us if this was a man or a woman and a hot debate later we went with ‘assigned women by us’ because, clearly, Maria was a womanly name, what kinda nonsense is “Rainer” anyways (very ye olden times) and who would name their child Maria if it was not a girl??? Sike, Rilke's mother apparently. since Rilke men sometimes have the middle name Maria and it still sounds weird to my ears sometimes lmaoo)

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favored one in your country?

...don’t laugh but I really think it might be beer?? I’m too lazy to google for proof atm so I’ll just perpetuate a harmless bais lmao

27. favorite national celebrity?

I loved Loriot as a child! I adored his humor soo much and am still grateful I could live at the same time as him for a while.

Anna Thalbach is cool, I saw her in a production of Romeo and Juliet as Juliet once and adored her (and her mother Katharina Thalbach as well, what a cool bean).