OTTO WAALKES will be 77 this year - the right age to go on more and more journeys of discovery. And since art is significantly older, it is not surprising that there are still new masterpieces to be discovered in the vast field of painting. But Otto has discovered something else: "Unfortunately, most - if not all - of them are missing something that can be dispensed with: the Ottifant." To close these gaps, the notorious East Frisian and motoric comedian presents a long series of fresh oil paintings, acrylic paintings, watercolors and pen and ink drawings in KUNST IN SICHT, which are classified in prose and verse in terms of art history and Otto. Waalkes talks to his companion and writer BERND EILERT about his great role models, about genius and parody.