Loriot: Szenen einer Ehe

Loriot: Scenes from a Marriage

Senta Berger & Friedrich von Thun, narration
Maria Reiter, accordion

“Men and women just don’t mix…”—and yet they have to get along with each other every day. When the breakfast egg is overcooked first thing in the morning and opinions differ in the evening about how to spend the rest of the day, things get dicey. This is precisely what Loriot captured so perfectly in his legendary *Scenes from a Marriage*, published in 1983. His keen sense of human interaction and the humor of everyday communication reveal Loriot as a sharp-witted connoisseur of all-too-human comedies.

As a tribute to the grand master of humor, two giants of the stage and screen—Senta Berger and Friedrich von Thun—come together to breathe life and laughter into these scenes. Together and against each other, they grapple with the stumbling blocks that everyday life throws in their path—and, of course, with the insurmountable pitfalls of a romantic relationship. Because as Loriot himself once said, “A happy marriage is one in which she’s a little blind and he’s a little deaf.”