After work (Loriot)

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Feierabend is a three and a half minutes long animated - Sketch of the German humorist Loriot , that of the spouse or communication problem in other sketches (see The egg is occurring spouses) Hermann and Berta. The sketch was first broadcast on May 16, 1977 as part of the LORIOT III program on Radio Bremen .

action

The husband Hermann is sitting in the armchair in the living room, his wife is only visible through the door to the kitchen, where she either walks from one side to the other or sticks her head out to the door. Otherwise you don't see them doing anything, you just hear the clatter of dishes. Berta, who is not mentioned here by name, asks Hermann what he is doing, to which he replies that he is not doing anything. His wife suggests going for a walk and wants to bring him his coat straight away, without his having even agreed to the suggestion. However, he declines with thanks, according to his own statement that he “just wants to sit here”. She claims that it is too cold without a coat. Hermann's attempt to explain to her that he does not want to go for a walk fails because Berta claims that he just wanted to. Shortly afterwards she suggested that he read the magazines and wanted to bring them to him. When he refuses, she accuses him of only wanting to be served. Finally she tells him not to be so aggressive after all, and Hermann replies that he is not aggressive after all. She asks why he is yelling at her like that, whereupon her husband yells "I'm not yelling at you!"

reception

This sketch illustrates how, in Loriot's view, romantic and marital situations are also opportunities for comical failure. It can be understood as an attempt at education, although not in the sense of Molière , whose works also used a comedy of moral deviation and demanded an attitude of moral superiority, but in the sense of an education to humility and the ability to laugh at one's own incompetence. However, the sketch can also be interpreted as addressing the question of the active self, as it was propagated by Sir Karl Raimund Popper and Sir John Carew Eccles in Das Ich und seine Kirchen (1982): Freedom is revealed in the active self of the human. If it is interpreted as an inner monologue, the sketch gives an answer to this question in a humorous, symbolic way: one side of the person longs for silence, the other speaks.

The sketch gained general popularity. It is used as an example of communication behavior . Many of the sentences from Loriot's skits have become winged words . The sayings from this sketch such as “I just want to sit here” or Hermann's final scream “I'm not screaming at you!” Are well known.

During the corona pandemic , a version of the skit dubbed in Hebrew by actor Dror Keren was released to cheer up the population during the time of exit restrictions in Israel.

Text output (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. After loriot.de , accessed on 26 November 2018th
  2. ^ Rudolf Lüthe : Cheerful Enlightenment . Philosophical research on the relationship between comedy, skepticism and humor (=  philosophy and the art of living . Volume 8 ). Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin / Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13895-8 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. Michael Pflaum: The active and the contemplative side of freedom (=  Reinhold Boschki , Albert Biesinger , Ottmar Fuchs , Michael Schüßler [Hrsg.]: Tübinger Perspektiven zur Pastoraltheologie und Religionspädagogik . Volume 47 ). Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11732-8 , pp. 89–91 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. cf. for example [1] (accessed November 26, 2018)
  5. Karin Cohrs, Werner Heinritz, Michael Kruhöffer, Jutta Steinberg: Reflection on language and use of language . In: The Basis. Entry year and basic knowledge . German for the vocational high school. Winklers Verlag, Braunschweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-8045-5248-7 , pp. 34–38 ( schulbuchzentrum-online.de [PDF; 450 kB ]).
  6. ^ Regina Jerichow: Elegant master of the absurd everyday. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . August 24, 2011, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  7. Loriot's sketch in Hebrew goes viral on Facebook