Touché (comic)

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Touché ( French for touched, hit ) is a comic strip by Thomas Körner . The theme of the comic strip is life in Berlin. In the three-picture comics, the characters are confronted with treacherous everyday situations, which they master with wit.

publication

Touché has been appearing daily in the taz since 1991 on the satirical page The Truth . Some strips also appeared in the city magazine Zitty and in other daily newspapers, such as the Badische Zeitung or the now-discontinued Swiss commuter newspaper metropol . Touché stripes with a bicycle cover could be seen in the ADFC magazine Radwelt until 1999.

Thomas Körner at the book signing of the taz

So far, 15 anthologies ( TOM 500 to TOM 7500 ), also called bricks, each combine 500 Touché strips; the first two volumes, each comprising 1000 strips, were later replaced by two 500-strip volumes each. Other fan articles include a memory game , a card game, an annual calendar and a 1000-piece puzzle.

When taz decided not to use Touché for a week in the spring of 2010, many readers complained. The strips were immediately printed every day again.

Characters

The permanent characters in the series include:

  • the cynical student Huschke
  • the grandma at the post office counter (usually requires a one-mark stamp ) and her opponent, a post office clerk who is usually sleeping
  • a doorman devil in hell and his colleague Schulz
  • the DLRG pool attendants in the swimming pool
  • a little boy with great respect for the 10-meter board
  • a very dangerous little boy with a sand shovel
  • a tree hugger
  • Tom Spade, a private investigator
  • : two missionary, old ladies of a small religious community whose appearance and hand held magazines (title Hanni and Nanni similarities to) Jehovah's Witnesses has
  • the Pachulke couple
  • Ralf, who constantly wants to quit smoking and was inspired by Ralf Sotscheck , the taz correspondent for Ireland and the United Kingdom
  • the "Anonymous Hypochondriac "
  • a hairdresser and his bumbling trainee
  • the Nordic Walker
  • a family with two young children
  • the leaf blower
  • the cashiers with their customers
  • the sometimes stupid, sometimes clever waitress of a café
  • a girl who tries to kiss her lover at Mardi Gras in different disguises
  • a cyclist with a racing bike
  • a poetry slammer who constantly annoys listeners with the punch line of the poems
  • a “good” fairy who fulfills wishes differently than expected and is usually under time pressure
  • two men who play puppet shows with puppets , robbers, sergeants and crocodiles
  • two talking frogs, titled Frog Up appeared
  • on January 6th regularly the three wise men who always have problems delivering the gifts
  • a mother on a bicycle and her son in the child seat, who likes to cause trouble with other road users
  • Klöpke, a family man, sometimes with a doctorate, to which other figures usually refer
  • the "Doc", a general practitioner
  • the grillers, often participants in a grill course

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Heiser: "My children - and I too - cry for Touché by Tom" , taz.de of April 29, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2011