Loriot and his green sofa belong inseparably together

(tae/spot) Loriot died on August 22, 2011. Ten years after his death, his sketches and caricatures are still remembered. The green sofa will forever be his legacy. Loriot (1923-2011), the master of good entertainment, died ten years ago - on August 22, 2011 - in Ammerland on Lake Starnberg. The well-known humorist was 87 years old. Through his sketches and caricatures, Loriot lives on to this day. His bulbous-nosed men became particularly famous. His works include books, series and films, and Loriot also staged operas and plays. Phrases like "There used to be more tinsel!", "A piano, a piano!" and "Please don't say anything now..." are quoted by Loriot fans to this day. Loriot was always a great observer of people - he was particularly fond of "communication disorders," as he once said himself. These people would interest him "most of all." "Everything that I find funny arises from broken communication, from talking past each other." His short sketches and cartoons, which he always commented on from an iconic green sofa, also thrive on this. "The Breakfast Egg" This sketch is sometimes just called "The Egg" and is one of Loriot's most popular sketches. The cartoon short is about the everyday life of a married couple. The two are sitting at the breakfast table. The husband grimly declares, "Berta, the egg is hard!" to which his wife replies, "I heard it." A dialogue then ensues in which the two - as so often in Loriot's films - talk past each other. Hermann reproaches his wife for not having been able to boil the egg for four and a half minutes. "I can feel it when the egg is soft," Berta explains. In the end, Hermann says, "I'll kill her. Tomorrow I'll kill her." "Herren im Bad" "Herren im Bad" is also one of Loriot's best-known sketches. The protagonists are Mr. Müller-Lüdenscheidt, Dr. Klöbner and a squeaking duck. The two gentlemen are sitting together in the bathtub of a hotel room - Dr. Klöbner has made a mistake in the room number. Neither of them wants to leave the tub, however, so they agree on the water temperature. Dr. Klöbner wants to bathe with his squeaking duck, which Mr. Müller-Lüdenscheidt vehemently refuses. The dialog continues and ends in a diving contest. At the end of the skit, a third man appears in the doorway - while the other two are diving - and asks, "Is this room 107?" "Mother's Piano" The sketch is also known as "Home TV." Unlike the previous two cartoons, this one is a live-action film. The exclamation "A piano, a piano!" developed into a winged word thanks to the sketch. The Panislowski family gets a piano delivered by Mother Berta from Massachusetts. Mr. Panislowski (Loriot), together with the whole family, wants to capture this moment with a film camera: Son Thomas (Rudolf Kowalski) follows the instructions for this. Repeatedly, he is asked the question "Is the tape running?", to which he replies, increasingly exasperated, "Yes, it is! Mr. Panislowski's wife, called "Muttilein" (Ingeborg Heydorn), as well as his grandson, daughter-in-law and the furniture movers are also precisely instructed by Mr. Panislowski. Again and again something goes wrong during the transport of the piano, so that the film has to be restarted again and again. "The Noodle" A man (Loriot) and a woman named Hildegard (Evelyn Hamann) meet for a romantic meal in an Italian restaurant. Both consume a pasta dish. When the man wipes his mouth with a napkin, an elongated noodle gets stuck on his lower lip. He then confesses his love to her, but Hildegard is distracted by the noodle. During his confession of love, he repeatedly grabs his face in such a way that the noodle sticks to a different point of his face each time. At the beginning, Hildegard tries to interrupt his torrent of words, but then she just watches speechlessly. "Christmas at Hoppenstedt's" Like many of Loriot's sketches, this one comes from Loriot's TV series of the same name. "Christmas at Hoppenstedts" lasts a full 25 minutes and consists of various scenes from the preparations for Christmas, to buying presents, to the actual celebrations in the family. Grandpa Hoppenstedt (Loriot) first buys his grandson Dicki (Katja Bogdanski) a Christmas present, the model construction kit "Wir bauen uns ein Atomkraftwerk".