Tankred Lerch reads from his fast-paced comedy about a male friendship that (almost) falls apart and presents a trenchant social satire about marriage, friendship and the search for happiness.

Jan and Rode are best friends and live in a shared flat. At a wedding, they come up with the idea of taking advantage of the tax benefits of marriage - even though they are heterosexual and have no intimate feelings for each other other other than friendship. With this idea, the two get things mixed up and set off a chain of misjudgments.

The author was born in Lübeck in 1970, went to school in Hamburg, studied law in Kiel and worked as a trainee at Radio Schleswig-Holstein. He has lived in Cologne since 1997, works as an author and producer for television (including "extra3", "Stromberg", "Krömer - Late Night Show", "TV total") and has been teaching media technology and dramaturgy as a freelance lecturer since 2013.

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