Not least during the celebration of love, insults become rampant and nestle in our Christmas-disturbed hearts. We have become a big club of the offended. In traffic, at the supermarket checkout, among relatives, in small and large politics, everywhere we shake our heads and collect insults, someone is always trying to do something to us.
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With the help of Dave Eggers and Anton Chekhov, among others, we look at the history of insults and the cleverest way to deal with them. What is a good insult? Should you basically insult back? How do we look good when insulted? Is it even possible to look good while being insulted? Dear weak-minded audience, the stupid blonde Cordula Stratmann and the North German full-on Bjarne Mädel are looking forward to seeing you!
Cordula Stratmann, born in Düsseldorf, is a comedienne on TV and on stage. She initially studied social work and trained as a systemic family therapist before becoming famous on television. Among other things, her star role as Annemie Hülchrath on WDR led her to “Schillerstrasse”. Cordula Stratmann was also successful as a presenter and best-selling author, among other things. of “you up there, he down there” and “thanks for my attention”. Cordula Stratmann has received numerous awards, including the German Television Prize, the Golden Camera and the Bavarian Television Prize.
Bjarne Mädel, born in 1968, became known to a wide audience through his participation in the TV satire “Stromberg” and the crime series “Murder with a View”. He has received several awards for his acting performance. Among other things, he received the Grimme Prize twice for his character role in “The Crime Scene Cleaner”. Won the LOLA Silver at the German Film Prize in 2017 with “24 Weeks”, the Bavarian Film Prize in 2020 for his role in the film “25 km/h” and both the Grimme Prize in 2022 as a leading actor in “Delivered” as well as a director and leading actor in “Sörensen is afraid”.
