COLOGNE COMEDY FESTIVAL | Manuel Butt

Take That have split up, the world is dancing the Macarena, and national coach Berti Vogts is fighting for professional survival at the European Championship. There are also problems in the Schleswig-Holstein province: Tobi's parents are leaving for a two-week vacation. Fourteen days in which Tobi wants to sleep with Lisa for the first time, the driving test is coming up and he is supposed to take care of daddy's seahorse. None of it will work out. In general, little goes as he wants: Lisa breaks up with him, her best friend Georg is annoying, and Tobi's uncontrollable buddy Scholzen moves in with him. When Georg receives a message from his mother in London, who was thought to be dead, the four of them decide to hijack their driving school car and travel from the Baltic Sea to England via the Netherlands. Without money, without a plan, but with seahorses in the trunk.

Manuel Butt reads from Ornamental Fish in the Hands of Idiots and talks to Lutz van der Horst about his first novel.