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Tilman Birr has written a modern picaresque novel, "Wie sind Sie hier reingekommen?" (How did you get in here?), in which he creates a highly comical Berlin panopticon of the early noughties. With his protagonist, he asks himself: Do we really have to take everyone seriously who acts seriously? At his hero's side is none other than Vicco von Bülow, the man we all know as "Loriot". A homage to the aimless drifter, a defense of comedy and a great tribute to Loriot, the artist of the century.
Tilman Birr (* 1980) is a writer and musician and has worked as a cabaret artist, radio columnist and historian. His comic episodic novel "On se left you see se Siegessäule - Erlebnisse eines Stadtbilderklärers" was published by Goldmann in 2012 and has sold 40,000 copies to date. He lives in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
