Mr Müller-Lüdenscheit and Doctor Klöbner in the bath (‘the duck stays out!’), the yodelling school with a yodelling diploma, er, with a yodelling diploma degree, („Dö dudl dö is second future tense at sunrise!’), the roast shank of veal Florida (“Does it taste good?”), the Kossakenzipfel (“It's a mocha truffle parfait with a lemon cream ball!”) and the breakfast egg (“The egg is hard!”), the piano given as a gift from Berta Panislowski from Massachusetts (“Mother, we thank you!”), the lottery winner (“My name is Erwin Lindemann, I'm a pensioner and I'm 66 years old”) or shopping for a bed (“The feather muffs are hung individually and braced crosswise”): no German-language humourist has influenced entire generations as much as Vicco von Bülow, alias Loriot - with his earnest characters placed in everyday absurd situations and always-precise wordplay. Many of his aphorisms have entered the lexicon, and an enormous community of fans knows by heart entire scenes created by the caricaturist and animator, writer and performer of radio and TV sketches, and director of films (“Oedipussi”, “Pappa ante portas”) and operas (“Der Freischütz”, “Martha”). The passionate Loriot devotees Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann, supported by Philippine Duchateau on the piano, bring Loriot's humane and all-too-human comedy to life.