betting that you read? Thomas Gottschalk’s books Show at the BR TV. Now he has presented reads “Gottschalk?” in Munich.

of Course, this is all a big pretense. Deep stack with the announcement. “I feel I am in a Phase of my career, I have nothing more to lose,” announces Thomas Gottschalk yesterday in the Munich house of literature. Why, of all things, he is a books-a broadcast in the BR TV would like to moderate? First and foremost, not the love for money. A Gage has not been negotiated yet.

The Financial a subject that he, the accused often, it seems, unnecessarily, the Budget of the Public service, several times responsive. What charms him, is the challenge. Time not like in TV – and Radio-Shows about music and shallow topics just start babbling, but a detailed prepare, something deeper boards drilling. “A Board drill more”, said the teacher, mother, Gottschalk about her son.

Premiere is on 19. March

68 he tried. 19. March is the adult Thomas in the first of four planned editions of the show “Gottschalk reads?” in addition to Ferdinand von Schirach, Vea Kaiser, Martin Mosebach, and Sarah Kuttner and does – Yes, what? “The Literary Quartet 2.0”? The exact procedures need to be editorially. “But the logical sequence is, that I with the author about his latest book, a speech, and then the other engage with. Or come in later? We are still working,“ says Gottschalk, who has already read all four books of the first shipment. And a few more of the respective author? “The claim is not to know the total work. I must not have heard in Deep Purple any song to be able to talk about it.“

“We must get away from this appetizers-read”

Exactly is the sticking point in the case of well-known competition formats: all too often mind-boggling well-read experts talking about books, would not know the less erudite audience. “Me, you lose because after ten minutes. So it needs to go.“ These other want to win Gottschalk for his Show – and thus for reading. “Proust instead of Post! We need to way broken away from this appetizers-read on Twitter and co. the Saturday is for Us-an evening of TV. Let us at least read the save!“ And the odds? No false promises. The Critics? Here, too, Serenity, Entertainment professional: “I don’t think that I am praised in the Feuilleton of the FAZ. But if one says that Gottschalk has brought me a little closer to what I had read else are never – then for me that is a success.“