It is my great pleasure to announce Christian Spremberg today!
An enthusiastic braille reader and above all a reciter who likes to read texts in Braille in front of an audience.
And he brought us something really fun!
Raise the curtain for Christian and his performance of Kurt Tucholsky’s “where do the holes in the cheese come from”!
I had a lot of fun while listening and I am sure that you will, too !
Thank you Christian for your great performance!
Description
Christian Spremberg reads the short story Wo kommen die Löcher im Käse her?/Where do the holes in cheese come from? (1928) by the German writer Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935).
The video is shot from the perspective of the audience, showing Christian Spremberg seated at a table with a big braille book placed infront of him. He has white hair and wears a blue fleece pullover. On the wall behind him hangs a large picture of an alpine landscape with pink flowers.
Tucholsky’s sarcastic short story starts at the dinner table of a family awaiting guests for the evening. One of the children starts asking his parents about how the holes get into the cheese. The mother seems unable to answer the Question. According to her, that’s just how cheese is. As the father joins in, he also gives a half-hearted attempt in answering the question. He explains that the holes form during the fabrication process due to moisture. The child is not satisfied with these explanations and is being sent off to sleep by his increasingly irritated Father as an attempt to mask his lack of Knowledge.
The guests start to arrive one by one and begin to engage in the cheese debate as well. Each of them has a different yet very confident explanation for how the holes get into the cheese, e.g. “every hard cheese has holes”, or “the holes form due to contraction when he cheese cools down”. And all being very educated people of high social status, no one wants to admit being wrong even as an encyclopaedia is consulted for the correct answer. The discussion quickly gets more and more heated and soon descends into full on conflict and insults. In the end, the result of this very innocent yet still unanswered question is summarized as a bunch of lawsuits and broken friendships.
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