Literary criticism (Loriot)

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Literary criticism (also timetable ) is a one-person sketch by the German humorist Loriot . In it, a literary critic presents a newly published book without naming the title. Only when he begins to read it, you realize that it is the course book of the German Federal Railroad 's.

The text was first presented in 1968 by Loriot as the presenter of the fifth episode of the cartoon series . In the last episode of cartoon from 1972, the sketch can be seen again, this time with Loriot in disguise. The second version was also included in the 1997 recut version of the Loriot television series . The text of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and is part of several anthologies by Loriot.

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At the beginning, the literary critic explains that it took the time since the Frankfurt Book Fair to view and evaluate the new publications. Then he begins to introduce one of the new publications without giving the title of the book. The book, the author of which remains anonymous, describes "things with a forcefulness and precision that were previously not found in aesthetic literature". It is particularly suitable for young people, who can be made familiar with the “natural processes of life”. Then he quotes - something other German television stations have not dared to do so far - one of the “unjustifiably controversial passages” of the book:

"Germersheim from 12.36 p.m., Westheim 12.42 p.m., Lustadt at 12.46 p.m.".

The critic describes this excerpt as a “little masterpiece” which testifies to the “startling expertise of the author”. He quotes two other passages from the course book and ends his criticism with the recommendation that the work should not be missing in any bookcase.

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Loriot in 1971 during an autograph session

The sketch was shown for the first time in the fifth episode of the series Cartoon moderated by Loriot , which was produced by Süddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast on German television on June 9, 1968 . Loriot appeared as himself and sat on the red sofa as the presenter of the show. For the 21st and final episode of Cartoon from December 25, 1972, which consisted to a large extent of repetitions of previously broadcast works by Loriot, the sketch was shot again. This time he is embedded in the fictional television program Kulturspiegel . Its moderator, played by Loriot, first announces the film parody Ludwig II and the interview sketch Der Jungfilmer , before presenting the literary criticism of the course book.

When Loriot reorganized his television work in 1997 and cut 14 episodes with a length of 25 minutes from the six 45-minute episodes of the Loriot series , he also took works from other programs, including literary criticism . The sketch is part of the twelfth episode The Lonely King, other cultural intimate areas and a skat round from July 8, 1997, in which the combination with the films Ludwig II and The Young Filmmaker was retained.

This version is also included in The Complete Television Edition DVD collection , the original version from cartoon , performed by Loriot himself, is missing. The collection also includes a version from a reading that Loriot and Evelyn Hamann gave in 1987 in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin . While in the original cities in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Germersheim – Landau and Landau-Rohrbach railway lines are mentioned, this time Loriot cited arrival and departure times for places on the Wismar – Rostock railway in what was then the Rostock district .

The text of the sketch first appeared in 1981 in the anthology Loriot's Dramatic Works , which combines the texts of many skits from cartoon and Loriot, as well as some other television works by Loriot. It is assigned to the Culture and Television chapter . Since then, the text has been included in several other anthologies by Loriot.

Analysis and classification

The show Cartoon , which Loriot moderated from February 1967, was primarily conceived as a documentary show in which humorous drawings, cartoons and illustrators from all over the world were to be presented. From the beginning, Loriot was involved in the show with his own contributions in addition to his moderation. In the beginning, this participation was limited mainly to cartoons. The first version of the literary criticism from the fifth episode was a novelty, studio skits had not been shown until then. This type of sketch was a preliminary form of the real film sketches shown in later cartoon episodes, which also included the second version of literary criticism .

The structure of the sketch was based on the majority of Loriot's previously shown cartoons, in which monologues by men could also be seen. In terms of content, it seems to be inspired by Hans Magnus Enzensberger's poem Ins Lesebuch für die Oberschule from 1957, which with the words “Do not read odes, my son. Read the timetables: / they are more precise. ”Begins.

The language of the sketch copies the usual jargon of literary critics with formulations such as "let me single out [...]" or "but please judge for yourself". Various formulations, for example that the author's expertise is “startling”, expose what has been said as absurd and nonsensical.

Uwe Ehlert, who wrote his dissertation on communication disorders in Loriot's works, rates the literary critic's communication behavior as arrogant. Due to the brevity of the quotations from the course book, he said that he did not give viewers who he did not trust an adequate appreciation of the work to react to them and to contradict its validity claims .

Felix Christian Reuter, who did his doctorate on Loriot's television sketches, sees the sketch as a criticism of the influence of television on the opinion-forming of viewers and of the low intellectual demands of television. The topic of opinion formation is also addressed in other television parodies of Loriot, for example in 1976 in the sketch film analysis of the Loriot series . Two film critics interpret impossible things in a short film excerpt with Buster Keaton .

Audio-visual media

  • Loriot - His large sketch archive. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2001, DVD No. 4 (as part of Loriot 12 ).
  • Loriot - The complete television edition. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 2 (Version from Cartoon 23 ).
  • Loriot - The complete television edition. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 5 (reading by Loriot and Evelyn Hamann).

Text publications (selection)

literature

  • Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". The representation of misunderstandings in Loriot's work . ALDA! Der Verlag, Nottuln 2004, ISBN 3-937979-00-X , p. 107–116 (also dissertation at the University of Münster 2003).
  • Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the comedy. Life, work and work of Vicco von Bülow . Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-86821-298-3 .
  • Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. Loriot's television sketches (=  Oliver Jahraus , Stefan Neuhaus [Hrsg.]: FILM - MEDIA - DISCOURSE . Volume 70 ). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5898-1 (also dissertation at the University of Trier 2015).
  • Friedrich Tulzer: Loriot, the poet (=  Ulrich Müller , Franz Hundsnurscher , Cornelius Sommer [Hrsg.]: Stuttgart works on German studies . No. 456). Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-88099-461-4 , p. 53-57 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Loriot - The Complete Television Edition , the text publications, the secondary literature as well as in the website loriot.de operated by Loriot's community of heirs, the sketch is called literary criticism . The Loriot DVD collection - his large sketch archive uses the title timetable .
  2. ↑ So are the places and times in the text version. In the second TV version, instead of Lustadt, the non-existent place Hampsted is mentioned, in the sound recordings there are slight deviations in the times.
  3. ↑ a b c Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 222-223.
  4. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 246, 406.
  5. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 304, 417.
  6. ^ Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. 2015, p. 116.
  7. ↑ Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". 2004, pp. 110, 112-113. Friedrich Tulzer: Loriot, the poet. 2012, p. 55.
  8. ↑ Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". 2004, pp. 112-113, 116.
  9. ^ Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. 2015, p. 118.