AHEM *CLEARS THROAT*

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A volume of short, offbeat plays by Max Goldt that develop a very special comic energy. For those who like their stage comedies slightly less conventional …

Planning A Journey In The Morning

A bed. A man, chin dotted with stubble, and a woman, nose dotted with freckles, wake up.

Man: I dreamt you cleaned my motorbike. Let’s drive to Fuschl!
Woman : Where’s that?
Man: On Lake Fuschl.
Woman: What is there to see?
Man: Fuschl Castle.
Woman: And what are we going to do there?
Man: Go to the Fuschl Cafe.
Woman: What do they have?
Man: The original Fuschl Gateau.
Woman: How much does a piece cost?
Man: Three Fuschl fifty.
Woman: You mean three euros fifty.
Man: Yes, of course! Did I say something different? "

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 30.10.2015
  • ISBN: 978-3-87134-820-4
  • 176 Pages
  • Author: Max Goldt

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AHEM *CLEARS THROAT*
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Max Goldt

Max Goldt was born in 1958 in Göttingen. Since 1989 he has been a regular columnist for the German satiric magazine Titanic, a musician and an author of radio plays, comics and several volumes of prose essays for Rowohlt. In 1997, he won the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor; in 1999, the Richard Schönfeld Prize for Satire and in 2008 the Hugo Ball and Heinrich von Kleist Prizes. His latest published works include Female Bosses in Floor-Length Denim Skirts (2014) and Ahem *Clears Throat* (2015). He currently lives in Berlin.